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NO. 53 SPRING 1998

PATRONAGE, PATERNALISM, AND COMPANY WELFARE

Introduction: Workers' Choices, Company Policies, and Loyalties

David Montgomery

Americanism and Paternalism: Managers and Workers in Twentieth-Century Italy

Elisabetta Benenati

Patronage, Paternalism, and Welfare: Masters, Workers, and Magistrates in Eighteenth-Century England

Douglas Hay

Divided Loyalties: Padrones and the Evolution of Industrial Paternalism among Unskilled Immigrants in North America

Gunther Peck

Paternalism in Indian Labor: The Tata Iron and Steel Company of Jamshedpur

Blair B. Kling

Designing Obedience: The Architecture and Landscape of Welfare Capitalism, 1880-1930

William Littman

The Birth and Consequences of Industrial Paternalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890-1940

Michael David Snodgrass

Paternalism, Productivism, Collaborationism: Employers and Society in Interwar and Vichy France

Kathryn E. Amdur

REVIEW ESSAY

Fringe Benefits: A Review Essay on the American Workplace

Walter Licht

SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY: REPLY

Women, Work, and Citizenship: Response to Comment

Louise A. Tilly

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Racializing Class, Classifying Race: A Conference on Labour and Difference in Africa, the United States, and Britain

Colin J. Davis

The State of Labour and Working-Class History in Europe

Talja Blokland

Class in a Multicultural Age: Organization of American Historians Meeting

Charles Carlson

A National Association for Working-Class History?

James Barrett

Society for French Historical Studies

Michelle Marshman, Lloyd Kramer, and Judith Coffin

The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism: Labor, Politics, and Culture

Paul Mishler and William Mello

BOOK REVIEWS

The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, ed. Victoria de Grazia, with Ellen Furlough

Reviewed by Joanna Bourke

The Industrial Craftsworker: Skill, Managerial Strategies and Workplace Relationships, by Peter Cook

Reviewed by Jonathan Zeitlin

Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought, by Donald R. Stabile

Reviewed by Fritz Efaw

Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1882-1911, by Karen Hunt

Reviewed by Pamela M. Graves

Women's Talk? A Social History of Gossip in Working-Class Neighbourhoods, by Melanie Tebbutt

Reviewed by Pamela J. Walker

Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989, and Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789/1989, by Steven Laurence Kaplan

Reviewed by Lloyd Kramer

Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe: The Quest for Productivity Growth during the Twentieth Century, eds. Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlay

Reviewed by Irwin M. Wall

Wages, Manufacturers and Workers in the Nineteenth-Century Factory: The Voortman Cotton Mill in Ghent, by Peter Scholliers

Reviewed by Louise A. Tilly

Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State, by Eric D. Weitz

Reviewed by Renate Bridenthal

Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930, ed. Geoff Eley

Reviewed by Celia Applegate

Nazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the "National Community", by Timothy Kirk

Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

La societ? unificata: Associazione, sindacato, partito sotto il fascismo, by Maurizio Degl'Innocenti

Reviewed by Alexander De Grand

Politics and Ideology in the Italian Workers' Movement: Union Development and the Changing Role of Catholic and Communist Subcultures in Postwar Italy, by Gino Bedani

Reviewed by Stephen Hellman

Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945, by Mark Harrison

Reviewed by Donald Filtzer

Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives, eds. Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack

Reviewed by Robert Campbell

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, eds. David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, and Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past, ed. Patricia Morton

Reviewed by Julie Saville

Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions by Tom Juravich, William F. Hartford, and James R. Green

Reviewed by Paul Buhle

Power, Culture and Conflict in the Coalfields: West Virginia and South Wales, 1900-22 by Roger Fagge

Reviewed by John H. M. Laslett

Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland, by James J. Lorence

Reviewed by Judith Stepan-Norris

The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production, by Lindy Biggs

Reviewed by Daniel Nelson

Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico, by Maria Lorena Cook

Reviewed by Susan Street

Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia, ed. Elizabeth J. Perry Reviewed by Lane Earns Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia, by Deborah Oxley

Reviewed by Glenda Strachan

Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan, by Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, and From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930, by Ibrahim K. Sundiata

Reviewed by Martin A. Klein

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