NO. 56 FALL 1999
GENDERED LABOR
"A Hero ... for the Weak": Work, Consumption, and the Enfeebled Jewish Worker, 1881-1924
Daniel Bender
"A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm": Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women's Service Jobs in the 1970s
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Women's Rights and Industrial Relations Under the Postwar Compact in Australia
Bradon Ellem
"Virile Syndicalism" in Comparative Perspective: A Gender Analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia
Francis Shor
ARTICLES
The Shaping of Sovet Workers' Leisure: Workers' Clubs and Palaces of Culture in the 1930s
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
REVIEW ESSAY
Ideology and the Making of New Labours
Eugenio F. Biagini
REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Labor, Past and Present: Twentieth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Lisa W. Phillips and Daniel Katz
The Southern Historical Association
Philip Scranton
BOOK REVIEWS
Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940, by George K. Behlmer; Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England: Life, Work, and Schooling, by Margaret C. Gomersall; and Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I, by Deborah Thom
Reviewed by Pamela J. Walker
Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe Between the Two World Wars, eds. Helmut Gruber and Pamela Graves
Reviewed by Bonnie Smith
Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States, by Jacqueline Ellis
Reviewed by Miriam Cohen
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, by Francesca Bray
Reviewed by Ruth Rogaski
MaternitZ et droits des femmes en France (XIXe-XXe si?cles), by Anne Cova; and The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, by Charles Rearick
Reviewed by Elinor A. Accampo
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935, by Claudia Clark
Reviewed by John Rouse
Capital Cities at War: London, Paris, Berlin, 1914-1919, by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert
Reviewed by Robert Bezucha
Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies, by Bruce Western
Reviewed by Gerald Friedman
Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, by Kim Moody
Reviewed by Jefferson Cowie
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1941-1951, by Noreen Branson
Reviewed by Jonathan Schneer
Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy: The Attlee Years, 1945-1951, by Jim Tomlinson
Reviewed by Peter Weiler
British Trade Unions, 1945-1995, ed. Chris Wrigley
Reviewed by James A. Jaffe
Trade Unions and the Management of Industrial Conflict, by Rosemary Aris
Reviewed by Timothy Eccles
Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840, eds. Tim Hitchcock, Peter King, and Pamela Sharpe
Reviewed by Carl Chinn
Dockers, mZtallos, mZnag?res: Mouvements sociaux et cultures militantes au Havre (1912-1923), by John Barzman
Reviewed by Keith Mann
Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich, by Ulrich Herbert
Reviewed by Volker Berghahn
Negotiating the New Germany: Can Social Partnership Survive?, ed. Lowell Turner
Reviewed by Sheri Berman
The Long Awaited Moment: The Working Class and the Italian Communist Party in Milan, 1943-1948, by Tom Behan
Reviewed by David Travis
Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, eds. Jane Burbank and David L. Ransel
Reviewed by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy After 1921, by AndrZ Liebich
Reviewed by Francesco Benvenuti
Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class, by Kenneth M. Straus
Reviewed by Laurie Bernstein
Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations, by Stephen Crowley
Reviewed by Padraic Kenney
A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society, by Lawrence B. Glickman
Reviewed by Karen Sawislak
Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, by Philip Jenkins
Reviewed by Abby Scher
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925, by Philip Scranton
Reviewed by Ross Thomson
Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong
Reviewed by Robert D. Parmet
The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. John H. M. Laslett; and The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921, by Daniel Letwin
Reviewed by Walter T. Howard
Welfare's End, by Gwendolyn Mink
Reviewed by Nancy A. Naples
American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor, by Jacqueline Jones
Reviewed by Martha Hodes
The Soviet World of American Communism, by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson
Reviewed by Alonzo L. Hamby
Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, by Ehud R. Toledano
Reviewed by Karen Barkey
China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience, by R. Bin Wong
Reviewed by Michael Tsin
