Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 6(2): 1-3 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-048 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Kelly Scarff

First Job
Labor 6(2): 5 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-049 [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Eric Arnesen

Introduction
Labor 6(2): 7-8 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-050 [PDF]  

James D. Schmidt

Racism, Society, and Law in Israel on the Appomattox
Labor 6(2): 9-12 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-051 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Amy Dru Stanley

Freedom, Slavery, and Homo Economicus
Labor 6(2): 13-17 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-052 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Julie Saville

Beyond the Appomattox: Comments on Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, by Melvin Patrick Ely
Labor 6(2): 19-22 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-053 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Corey Capers

Freedom, Ideology, and White Supremacy: A Comment on Melvin Patrick Ely's Israel on the Appomattox
Labor 6(2): 23-26 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-054 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael Perman

Comment on Israel on the Appomattox
Labor 6(2): 27-29 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-055 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jane Dailey

Comments on Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, by Melvin Patrick Ely
Labor 6(2): 31-32 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-056 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Melvin Patrick Ely

Response
Labor 6(2): 33-44 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-057 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Kenyon Zimmer

Premature Anti-Communists?: American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and Left-Wing Libertarian Anti-Communism, 1917-1939
Labor 6(2): 45-71 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-058 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sam Mitrani

Reforming Repression: Labor, Anarchy, and Reform in the Shaping of the Chicago Police Department, 1879-1888
Labor 6(2): 73-96 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-059 [Abstract] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Scott Reynolds Nelson

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Timothy J. Gilfoyle New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007 xvii + 460 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 97-98 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-60 [PDF]  

Lex Heerma van Voss

Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
Robin Archer Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 xvii + 348 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(2): 98-100 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-061 [PDF]  

Leo J. Garofalo

Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782
Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006 xiv + 342 pp., $45.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(2): 101-103 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-062 [PDF]  

Steve Striffler

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Dana Frank Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005 xiii + 137 pp., $40.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 104-105 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-063 [PDF]  

David A. Zonderman

Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
Joshua R. Greenberg New York: Columbia University Press/Gutenberg-e Book, 2008 e-book, open access
Labor 6(2): 105-107 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-064 [PDF]  

Bryan D. Palmer

Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840-1872
Robert B. Kristofferson Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007 x + 326 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 108-110 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-065 [PDF]  

Vic Satzewich

From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada
Vadim Kukushkin Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007 xvi + 283 pp., $80.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(2): 111-113 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-066 [PDF]  

Jennifer Luff

Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context
The Working Class in American History Series Shelton Stromquist, ed. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008 ix + 304 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $25 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 114-116 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-067 [PDF]  

Annelise Orleck

From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South; For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865
Robert H. Zieger Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007 x + 276 pp., $37.50 (cloth)
Labor 6(2): 116-120 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-068 [PDF]  

Ruth Milkman

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
Jennifer Gordon Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 364 pp., $27.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 120-122 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-069 [PDF]  

David G. Gutiérrez

Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
Lynn Stephen Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 xxii + 373 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 123-125 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-070 [PDF]  

Matthew Avery Sutton

Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Angela D. Dillard Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007 xxi + 384 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 125-127 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-071 [PDF]  

Richard A. Greenwald

A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
Tony Michels Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005 viii + 335 pp., $27.95 (paper)
Labor 6(2): 128-129 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-072 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 6(2): 130-131 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-6-2-130 [PDF]  

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