NO. 50 FALL 1996
LABOR UNDER COMMUNIST REGIMES
Introduction: A Future for Labor under Communism?
Stephen Kotkin
Labor Discipline, the Use of Work Time, and the Decline of the Soviet System, 1928-1991
Donald Filtzer
Polish Labor before and after Solidarity
David Ost
Worker Identity, the Meaning of Work, and Communist Conceptions of the Proletariat in the German Democratic Republic
Dorothee Wierling
Labor's Love Lost: Worker Militancy in Communist China
Elizabeth J. Perry
From Capitalism to Capitalism via Socialism: The Odyssey of a Marxist Ethnographer, 1975-1995
Michael Burawoy
REVIEW ESSAY
Revising the Revisionists: Sovietology in a New Key?
Louis Menashe
SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION: THE POSTWAR SOCIAL CONTRACT
Introduction
David L. Stebenne
The French Social Contract: Conflict amid Cooperation
Irwin M. Wall
The United States and the Shaping of West Germany's Social Compact, 1945-1966
Volker R. Berghahn
The Emergence of a Labor-Management Settlement in Japan, 1945-1960
Andrew Gordon
The Postwar "New Deal"
David L. Stebenne
The Postwar Social Contract: Comment
Charles S. Maier
REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?
Christopher S. Thompson
South Asian Labor: Linkages Global and Local Dilip Simeon Aftermath: The Transition from War to Peace in America after World War II
Roger Horowitz
International Congress for Historians
Adelheid von Saldern
Twentieth Social Science History Association Conference
Guy Baldwin, Perry Chang, and Louise A. Tilly
1996 American Historical Association Meeting
Donna Harsch, Marta V. Vicente, and Thomas Winter
BOOK REVIEWS
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization, by Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization, by Stephen Kotkin
Reviewed by Daniel Orlovsky
Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia, by Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg
Reviewed by Laurie Bernstein
Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907, by Robert E. Blobaum
Reviewed by Laura Crago
Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854, by Christine H?nefeldt
Reviewed by Alida Metcalf
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach
Reviewed by Charles Bergquist
States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America, by Robert G. Williams
Reviewed by Dar?o A. Euraque
The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985, by Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Reviewed by Cliff Welch
"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Russia, by Laura Tabili
Reviewed by Chris Waters
E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions, by Bryan D. Palmer
Reviewed by Peter Linebaugh
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class, by Anna Clark
Reviewed by Tori Smith
The Clockwork Factory: Women and Work in Fascist Italy, by Perry R. Willson
Reviewed by Mary Gibson
Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979, by Pamela Sugiman
Reviewed by Kevin Boyle
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900, by Kathryn Kish Sklar
Reviewed by Susan Levine
Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare and the State, 1890-1930, by Molly Ladd-Taylor
Reviewed by Melanie Gustafson
The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870, by Julie Saville
Reviewed by LeeAnn Whites
Industrializing America: the Nineteenth Century, by Walter Licht
Reviewed by Scott Reynolds Nelson
The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905, by David Brundage
Reviewed by Peter H. Argersinger
New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935, by Colin Gordon
Reviewed by Alan Dawley
Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60, by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Reviewed by Gerald Zahavi
"Without Blare of Trumpets": Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57, by Sidney Fine
Reviewed by Herbert Shapiro
The CIO, 1933-1955, by Robert H. Zieger
Reviewed by Daniel Nelson
Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers, by Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch
Reviewed by Lisa Kannenberg
Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace, by Paul Johnston
Reviewed by Joshua B. Freeman
