Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 6(3): 1-5 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-001 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

John Jeffire

Closing Time
Labor 6(3): 7-8 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-002 [PDF]  

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

Kate Rousmaniere

The Short, Radical Life of Pearl McGill
Labor 6(3): 9-19 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-003 [Abstract] [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Woody Holton

Primitive Accumulation
Labor 6(3): 21-36 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-004 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Max M. Edling

Schemes of Ambition
Labor 6(3): 37-42 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-005 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Allan M. Kulikoff

The Marx of the Constitutional Era?
Labor 6(3): 43-47 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-006 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rosemarie Zagarri

Response to Woody Holton's "Primitive Accumulation"
Labor 6(3): 49-53 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-007 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Woody Holton

Rebuttal
Labor 6(3): 55-63 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-008 [PDF]  

ARTICLE

Ruth Percy

Death at the Machine: Critiques of Industrial Capitalism in the Fiction of Labor Activist Lizzie M. Holmes
Labor 6(3): 65-88 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-009 [Abstract] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Bruce Laurie

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005 xxiii + 1044 pp., $35.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 89-91 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-010 [PDF]  

Beth English

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
Aviva Chomsky Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008 416 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 92-94 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-011 [PDF]  

Walter Licht

Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s
Ken Fones-Wolf Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007 xxviii + 236 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 94-97 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-012 [PDF]  

Heather Ann Thompson

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950
Glenda Gilmore New York: W. W. Norton, 2008 xii + 642 pp., $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 97-100 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-013 [PDF]  

Kevin Boyle

Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Paul Frymer Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008 xii + 202 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 100-102 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-014 [PDF]  

Kevin Allen Leonard

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Scott Kurashige Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008 xii + 346 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(3): 102-105 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-015 [PDF]  

Gilbert G. Gonzalez

On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Ellen R. Baker Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 xii + 379 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 105-107 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-016 [PDF]  

Nelson Lichtenstein

Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
Edna Bonacich and Jake Wilson Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008 xxii + 273 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 107-109 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-017 [PDF]  

Karen D. Caplan

Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840–1910
Paul Hart Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 xi + 291 pp., $27.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 110-112 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-018 [PDF]  

Lawrence M. Lipin

Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States
Chad Montrie Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008 x + 177 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 112-114 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-019 [PDF]  

Aaron Goings

Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919–1939
Andrew Parnaby Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 viii + 243 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 115-117 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-020 [PDF]  

Jeremy Brecher

The Great Strikes of 1877
David O. Stowell, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008 216 pp., $65 (cloth); $20 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 117-120 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-021 [PDF]  

John D. French

Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects
Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 ix + 289 pp., $92.00 (cloth); $36.99 (paper)
Labor 6(3): 120-122 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-022 [PDF]  

Susan Ouellette

Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780–1840
Gail Fowler Mohanty New York and London: Routledge, 2006 xii + 278 pp., $110.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(3): 123-125 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-023 [PDF]  

Caroline Waldron Merithew

A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Karen Pastorello Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007 xvii + 273 pp., $42.00 (cloth)
Labor 6(3): 125-126 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2009-024 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 6(3): 127 (2009); DOI:10.1215/15476715-6-3-127 [PDF]  

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