"Detroit Industry" detail, by Diego Rivera

NO. 61 SPRING 2002

IN MEMORIAM: ARVIND DAS

SWEATED LABOR: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AND REFORM

Introduction

            Mary Nolan

Sweatshop Subjectivity and The Politics of Definition and Exhibition

            Daniel Bender

Princesses and Sweated-Wage Slaves Go Well Together"; Images of British Sweated Workers, 1843-1914

            Sheila C. Blackburn

Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations

            Carmen Teresa Whalen

Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late 20th Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City

            Xiaolan Bao

 The Ideal Sweatshop?  Gender and Transnational Protest

            Ethel Brooks

Rethinking the Sweatshop: A Conversation About United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) with Charles Eaton, Marion Traub-Werner, and Evelyn Zepeda

            Kitty Krupat

 

REVIEW ESSAY

A Century of Sweat: Subcontracting, Flexibility, and Consumption Then and Now

            Jefferson Cowie

  

ARTICLE

Class Consciousness and Common Property: The International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America

            Geoff Mann

 

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Class, Space and Community; A Workshop Conference

            Emma Uprichard

 

Past the Myth: Confronting Real Issues About Southern Industrialization

            Matthew Hild

 

From Hard History to Soft History: Cultural Histories of the Korean Working Class

            Jie-Hyun Lim

 

Class, Consumption, and the Environment

            Alan D. Meyer

 

Working-Class Studies: Memory, Community, and Activism

            Ian Roberts

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Reworking China's Proletariat, by Sally Sargeson

Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households and Gender in China, edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson

            Reviewed by Rebecca E. Karl

 

Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown, by Robert Bruno

Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin, by Deborah E. McDowell

Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered, by Jack Metzgar

            Reviewed by William E. Jones

 

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis

            Reviewed by H. L. Malchow

 

Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910-1920: The Story of a Relationship, by Sean Dobson

            Reviewed by Belinda Davis

 

"Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80, by Dennis A. Deslippe

            Reviewed by Kathleen A. Laughlin

 

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

            Reviewed by Martin Glaberman

 

From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies, by Carmen Teresa Whalen

            Reviewed by George Lipsitz

 

Labour's First Century, edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo

            Reviewed by Michael Dintenfass

 

The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe, by James S. Amelang

            Reviewed by Mary Jo Maynes

 

The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov

            Reviewed by Laurie Bernstein

 

On the Edge of the New Century: Eric Hobsbawm in Conversation with Antonio Polito, by Eric Hobsbawm

            Reviewed by Gerald Surh

 

Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy, by Suzanne Mettler

            Reviewed by Joseph Luders

 

Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions, edited by Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner

            Reviewed by Peter Waterman

 

Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, Goerge Meany, Lane Kirkland and the Tragedy of American Labor, by Paul Buhle

            Reviewed by Edmund F. Wehrle

 

Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917, by Julie Greene

            Reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf

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