"Detroit Industry" detail, by Diego Rivera

NO. 59 SPRING 2001

WORKERS AND FILM: AS SUBJECT AND AUDIENCE

Introduction

Helmut Gruber

The British Worker from Class Consciousness to Marginalization

Stephen C. Shafer

Jean Gabin: Doomed Worker-Hero of a Doomed France

Helmut Gruber

The Italian Cinema and the Italian Working Class

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Buttons, Buttons, Who's Got the Workers? A Note on the (Missing) Working Class in Late and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

Louis Menashe

Making Cars, Making Theater, Making Film: Intellectuals and Workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1958-1981

John French

REVIEW ESSAY

American Workers, American Movies: Historiography and Methodology

Steven J. Ross

ARTICLES

American Movie Audiences of the 1930s

Richard Butsch

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Cultures of Work (Les cultures del treball)

Paulo Drinot

The Past and Future of International Trade Unionism

Rik Hemmerijckx

The Problematic Past and Uncertain Future of the International

Confederation of Free Trade Unions

Peter Waterman

BOOK REVIEWS

Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997, eds. Glenn Adler

and Eddie Webster

Reviewed by Vishnu Padayachee

Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform

by Jean C. Oi

Reviewed by Julia Strauss

Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour, and Cultural Studies

by Phil Cohen

Reviewed by Marcus Collins

London 1900: The Imperial City, by Jonathan Schneer

Reviewed by Philippa Levine

Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor During the British

Industrial Revolution, by Carolyn Tuttle

Reviewed by Susie Steinbach

Le monde retrouvÈ de Louis-FranÁois Pinagot. Sur les traces d'un inconnu 1798-1876,

by Alain Corbin

Reviewed by Donald Reid

Le Mai 68 des Catholiques, by GrÈgory Barrau

Reviewed by Gerd-Reiner Horn

Every Factory a Fortress: The French Labor Movement in the Age of Ford and Hitler,

by Michael Torigian

Reviewed by Stephen Harp

Nationalism, Labor, and Ethnicity, 1870-1939, eds. Stefan Berger and Angel Smith

Reviewed by Donald Reid

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of

Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921, by Joseph A. McCartin

Reviewed by Seth Wigderson

US Labor and Political Action, 1918-24: A Comparison of Independent Political

Action in New York, Chicago and Seattle, by Andrew Strouthous

Reviewed by Ron Mendel

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS


Footnotes

[1]. They Don't Wear Black-Tie is available in the United States, with

English subtitles, from New Yorker Films, www.newyorkerfilms.com.

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