NO. 55 SPRING 1999
CLASS AND CONSUMPTION
Introduction
Lizabeth Cohen and Victoria De Grazia
A "Standard" of Living? European Perspectives on Class and Consumption in the Early Twentieth Century
Judith G. Coffin
"Democracy's Third Estate:" New Deal Politics and the Construction of a "Consuming Public"
Meg Jacobs
Marketing the Modern: Department Stores, Consumer Culture, and the New Middle Class in Interwar Japan
Louise Young
The Social-Democratic World of Consumption: The Path-Breaking Case of the Ghent Co-Operative Vooruit Prior to 1914
Peter Scholliers
Working People and Consumption Under Really-Existing Socialism: Perspectives From the German Democratic Republic
Ina Merkel
Household Choices as Politics and Pleasure in 1950s Canada
Joy Parr
REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
1998 Latin American Labor History Conference
Adriana Mariel Brodsky
The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization, 1940-1970
Douglas Flamming
Work, Difference, and Social Change: Two Decades After Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital
Rick Baldoz and Charles S. Koeber
Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference
Richard Skinner and Theresa Ann Case
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference Highlights Organizing Strategies, Past and Present
Marcus Widenor
Globalization From Below: Contingency, Conflict, Contestation
Daniel Levison Wilk
BOOK REVIEWS
Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im Dritten Reich, Hans Mommsen with Manfred Grieger
Reviewed by Mary Nolan
Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, eds. Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler
Reviewed by James Genova
World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization, eds. Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
Reviewed by John Ingham
Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen during the Mortality Decline, by James C. Riley
Reviewed by J.M. Winter
Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era, by Kathleen Paul
Reviewed by Sonya Rose
The Warp of Ulster's Past: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Irish Linen Industry, 1700-1920, ed. Marilyn Cohen
Reviewed by Pat Hudson
Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, by Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Reviewed by Anna Clark
Les logiques de l'entreprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie fran?aise de l'entre-deux-guerres, by AimZe Moutet
Reviewed by Sam Cohn
Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815, by Ken Alder
Reviewed by Michael Hanagan
The Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German Labor Movement in the Ruhr, 1902-1934. National and Social Solidarity, by John J. Kulczycki
Reviewed by William Lee Blackwood
Rabochie i intelligentsiia Rossii v epokhu reform i revoliutsii 1861-fevral' 1917 g., eds. S. I. Potolov, et al.
Reviewed by Diane P. Koenker
Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia, by Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See
Reviewed by Barbara Clements
European Proto-Industrialization, eds. Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman
Reviewed by Daryl Hafter
One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century, by Donald Sassoon
Reviewed by Gerd-Reiner Horn
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929, by Joanne L. Goodwin
Reviewed by Alec Campbell
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930, by Wendy Gamber
Reviewed by Carole Turbin
Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century, by Robert E. Weems Jr.
Reviewed by Kathy Newman
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, by Thomas J. Sugrue
Reviewed by Stacy McGoldrick
Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America, by Steven J. Ross
Reviewed by Richard Butsch
The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925, by Elisabeth S. Clemens
Reviewed by Sarah Henry
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930, by Hal S. Barron
Reviewed by Charles Ponce de Leon
Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942, by Ellen Graff
Reviewed by R.Todd Shuman
Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, by Mark Moberg
Reviewed by Aisha Khan
Worker's Control in Latin America, 1930-1979, ed. Jonathan C. Brown
Reviewed by Jeremy Adelman
Peronism without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina, by James W. McGuire
Reviewed by Marcela Gonzalez
Class Struggle or Family Struggle: The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea, by Seung-kyung Kim
Reviewed by Charles Armstrong
Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960, by Fran?ois Manchuelle
Reviewed by Frederick Cooper
Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire, by Osumaka Likaka
Reviewed by Francois Ngolet
