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NO. 49 SPRING 1996

IDENTITY FORMATION AND CLASS

"The Labour of the Country Is the Wealth of the Country": Class Identity, Consciousness, and the Role of Discourse in the Making of the English Working Class

Marc W. Steinberg

The Domestic Image and Factory Culture: The Cotton District in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

Carol E. Morgan

"The Man Transformed into a Maiden"? Languages of Grievance and the Politics of Class in Germany, 1850-1914

Kathleen Canning

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Men: Gender and Class in Early Industrial Medell?n

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

Working for Democracy? Brazil's Organized Working Class in Comparative Perspective

Anthony W. Pereira

A Case of Mistaken Identity: The Irish in Post-War Britain

Kathleen Paul

ARTICLE

Organized Labor, National Politics, and Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, 1965-1975

Dennis A. Deslippe

COUNTRY REPORT

Labor History in New Zealand

John E. Martin

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

International Colloquium on Workers and the Intelligentsia in Russia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

William G. Rosenberg, Mark D. Steinberg, and Reginald E. Zelnick

Society for French Historical Studies

Judith A. Degroat

Organization of American Historians

Jennifer Klein, David Brundage, and Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary

Workers and the Environment: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association

Nils Sonntag

BOOK REVIEWS

Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, by AndrZ Gorz

Reviewed by Siegfried Mattl

The Labour Aristocracy, 1851-1914, by Trevor Lummis

Reviewed by Eric Hopkins

Labour Women: Women in British Working Class Politics, 1918-1939, by Pamela M. Graves

Reviewed by Anna Clark

Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815-1867, by James Vernon

Reviewed by Eugenio Biagini

The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement: Xenophobia and Solidarity in the Coal Fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914, by John J. Kulczycki

Reviewed by Craig Patton

The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914, by Tessie P. Liu

Reviewed by Lizabeth Zack

Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century, by David Montgomery

Reviewed by Jeanne Boydston

A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, by Karen V. Hansen

Reviewed by David Jaffee

Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier

Reviewed by James Barrett

Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945, by George J. S?nchez

Reviewed by Zaragosa Vargas

Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918, by Walton Look Lai

Reviewed by O. Nigel Bolland

Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941, by David L. Hoffman

Reviewed by Kenneth Straus

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Commissioned book reviews not received as of October 22, 1995:

Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, by Gary Cross

Reviewed by Marjorie Beale

The Labor Wars in C?rdoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City, by James P. Brennan

Reviewed by Daniel James

Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910, by Patrick Harries

Reviewed by Mahmood Mamdani

Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany, by Mary Nolan

Reviewed by Kathleen Canning

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