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NO. 54 FALL 1998

MIGRATION, LABOR MOVEMENTS, AND THE WORKING CLASS

The Reader and the Worker: Los Lectores and the Culture of Cigarmaking in Cuba and Florida

Gary R. Mormino

A Passage to Suriname? The Migration of Modes of Resistance by Asian Contract Laborers

Rosemarijn Hoefte

Working-Class Families Respond to Industrial Decline: Migration from the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region since 1920

Thomas Dublin

Labor History and the New Migration History: A Review Essay

Michael P. Hanagan

ARTICLES

White Working-Class Women and the Race Question

Dana Frank

Political Ruptures and Organized Labor: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, 1916-1922

Jeremy Adelman

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Labor History at the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Social Science History Association

Andrew Diamond, Lex Heerma van Voss, and Priscilla Holcomb

Workers and the City: Nineteenth Annual North American Labor History Conference

Nancy Quam-Wickham, Lawrence Glickman, and Claudia Clark

Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work

Roger Horowitz

In Search of a Lost Working Class: Workers in the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic, 1945-1970

Anna-Sabine Ernst, Gerwin Klinger, and Annette Timm

Comparative International History of Dock Labour, c.1790-1970

Colin J. Davis

BOOK REVIEWS

Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Reviewed by Christian Henriot

Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia

Reviewed by Francis Shor

Martin Daunton, ed., Charity, Self-Interest and Welfare in the English Past

Reviewed by Peter Mandler

Barbara Winslow, Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

Reviewed by Bruce Levine

Andrew Thorpe, A History of the British Labour Party

Reviewed by Martin Francis

Mark Leier, Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy

Reviewed by Nicole Lang

Marta Petrusewicz, Latifundium: Moral Economy and Material Life in a European Periphery

Reviewed by Anthony L. Cardoza

Gay L. Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune

Reviewed by Elizabeth Sage

Nicholas Papayanis, Horse-Drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transit

Reviewed by Tyler Stovall

Gonzalo J. S?nchez, Jr., Organizing Independence: The Artists Federation of the Paris Commune and Its Legacy, 1871-1889, and Alexander Varias, Paris and the Anarchists: Aesthetes and Subversives during the Fin de Si?cle

Reviewed by K. Steven Vincent

David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean

Reviewed by Mimi Sheller

Nancy L. Green, Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

Reviewed by Eileen Boris

David Northrup, Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922

Reviewed by Doug Munro

Frederic C. Deyo, ed., Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry: Competition, Power, and Industrial Flexibility

Reviewed by Kim Moody

Adelheid von Saldern, H_userleben: Zur Geschichte st_dtischen Arbeiterwohnens vom Kaiserreich bis heute

Reviewed by David Crew

Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914

Reviewed by Thomas Welskopp

Karl-Dieter Opp, Peter Voss, and Christiane Gern, Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution: East Germany, 1989

Reviewed by Mary Fulbrook

Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucat?n, 1876-1915

Reviewed by Heather Fowler-Salamini

Thomas F. O'Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

Reviewed by Aviva Chomsky

Barbara Weinstein, For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in S?o Paulo, 1920-1964

Reviewed by Teresa Meade

Deborah Levinson-Estrada, Trade Unionists against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985

Reviewed by Peter Winn

Paul W. Drake, Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective

Reviewed by Asunci?n Lavrin

Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948

Reviewed by Anita Shapira

Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

Reviewed by Val Marie Johnson

Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Reviewed by Elena Osokina

Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920

Reviewed by Judith Fingard

Benjamin Kline Hunnicut, Kellogg's Six-Hour Day

Reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Mark Aldrich, Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939, and Christopher C. Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science

Reviewed by Douglas Stradling

Scott Molloy, Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line

Reviewed by Nicholas Papayanis

Martin Henry Blatt and Martha K. Norkunas, eds., Work, Recreation, and Culture: Essays in American Labor History, and Archie Green, Calf's Head and Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play

Reviewed by Vince DiGiralamo

Kevin Boyle and Victoria Getis, Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930

Reviewed by Andrew Diamond

Donald T. Critchlow, Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation, and Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

Reviewed by Stephen Amberg

Miriam J. Wells, Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

Reviewed by Raul Fernandez

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