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NO. 51 SPRING 1997

WORKERS IN RACIALLY-STRATIFIED SOCIETIES

Introduction

Gay Seidman

Black Workers in the Export Boom: Latin America, 1880-1930

Reid Andrews

Two Dangers, One Solution: Immigration, Race, and Labor in Cuba, 1900-1930

Alejandro de la Fuente

"Excluded" by Choice: Dynamics of Interracial Unionism on the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1910-1930

Howard Kimeldorf and Robert Penney

What If Labor Were Not White and Male? Recentering Working-Class History and Reconstructing Debate on the Unions and Race

David Roediger

Shop Floors and Rugby Fields: The Social Basis of Auto Worker Solidarity in South Africa

Glenn Adler

A Modern Cinderella: Race, Sexuality, and Social Class in the Rhinelander Case

Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

European Social Science History Conference

Alan Draper

1995 North American Labor History Conference

Rick Halpern, Ardis Cameron, Thomas Sugrue, and Walter Licht

1996 French Historical Studies Conference

Nicole Dombrowski

For Us There Are No Frontiers: Global Approaches to the Study of Italian Migration and the Making of Multiethnic Societies, 1800 to the Present

Michael Miller Topp and Roberto Ventresca

Eighty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

Greg Kaster and R. Todd Shuman

Council for European Studies: Toward the Social and Structural History of Capitalism

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and Andrew Diamond

The Continuing Relevance of Class

Andrew Strouthaus

Tenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

Lisa Phillips, Barbara Weinstein, and Alejandra Vassallo

Organizational Report: Association for Indian Labour Studies

Dilip Simeon

BOOK REVIEWS

Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920, ed. Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis

Reviewed by Young Sun Hong

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939, by Laura Lee Downs, and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920, by Christopher H. Johnson

Reviewed by Keith Mann

Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class, by Leonore Davidoff

Reviewed by Bonnie Smith

The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, by Gwendolyn Mink

Reviewed by Kristin Barker

European Women and Preindustrial Craft, ed. Daryl M. Hafter

Reviewed by Penelope Lane

Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain, by Desmond King

Reviewed by Michael Hanagan

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

Reviewed by Kathleen Canning

The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, ed. Alf L?dtke

Reviewed by Belinda Davis

Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, by Tim Mason

Reviewed by Gerd-Reiner Horn

The German Workers and the Nazis, by F.L. Carsten

Reviewed by Eve Rosenhaft

Les filles de Marianne: Histoire des fZminismes, 1914-1940, by Christine Bard

Reviewed by Louise A. Tilly

The Rites of Labor: Brotherhoods of Compagnonnage in Old and New Regime France, by Cynthia Maria Truant

Reviewed by Elinor Accampo

The HZbertistes to the Guillotine: Anatomy of a "Conspiracy" in Revolutionary France, by Morris Slavin

Reviewed by Jeff Horn

Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1780-1840, by Dror Wahrman

Reviewed by Miles Taylor

Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834, by Charles Tilly

Reviewed by John A. Phillips

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870, by David R. Green

Reviewed by James Jaffe

Iuzovka and Revolution, vol. II: Politics and Revolution in Russia'a Donbass, 1869-1924, by Theodore H. Friedgut

Reviewed by John Hutchinson

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1985, by Annelise Orleck

Reviewed by Joanne Meyerowitz

Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914-1924, by Elizabeth McKillen

Reviewed by Edward Johanningsmeier

Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900, by Dorothee Schneider

Reviewed by David Quigley

Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country, by Stephanie McCurry

Reviewed by Frank Byrne

Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America, by Jama Lazerow

Reviewed by Kenneth Fones-Wolf

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas, ed. Mary Turner

Reviewed by Reid Andrews

In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture, by Leon Fink

Reviewed by James Barrett

Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, by John A. Salmond

Reviewed by Bryant Simon

Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary, by Miles Fairburn

Reviewed by John E. Martin

The Working Class Movement: A Study of Jute Mills of Bengal, 1937-47, by Nirban Basu, and Labour and Working Class in Eastern India, by Ranajit Das Gupta

Reviewed by Dilip Simeon

Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1930s, by Christina Kelley Gilmartin, and Gr?ves et politique ? Shanghai: Les dZsillusions (1927-1932), by Alain Roux

Reviewed by Hill Gates

Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, by Asunci?n Lavrin

Reviewed by Lynn Stoner

Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts

Reviewed by Robert Shenton

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