NO. 62, FALL 2002
CLASS AND CATASTROPHE: SEPTEMBER 11 AND OTHER WORKING-CLASS DISASTERS
Issue Editor: Joshua Freeman
Introduction
Joshua Freeman
September 11 and New York City's Workers: The Personal Observations of a Working-Class Historian
Richard Greenwald
Nights Underground in Darkest London: The Blitz, 1940-41
Geoffrey Field
The Fragility of the Moment: Politics and Class in the Aftermath of the 1944 Argentine Earthquake Mark
Alan Healey
Reactions to Trauma: The 1976 earthquake in Guatemala
Deborah Levenson
Twice Poisoned Bhopal: Notes on the Unending Aftermath of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Chandana Mathus and Ward Morehouse
Felix Cuervo, Highrise Hero
Daniel Levinson Wilk
Lessons to be Learned: The New York City Municipal Unions, The 1970s Fiscal Crisis, and
New York City at a Crossroads After September 11
Michael Spear
Teaching and Researching the History of Disasters in New York City
Gregory (Fritz) Umbach
ARTICLES
"There's Got to Be More Out There": White Working-Class Women, College, and the "Better Life,"
1950-1985
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Billy Budd, Choker-Setter: Native Culture and Indian Work in the Southeast Alaska Timber Industry
Kirk Dombrowski
"Shape or Fight?" New York's Black Longshoremen, 1945-1961
Colin J. Davis
Success and Failure in Third Party Politics: The Knights of Labor and the Union Labor Coalition
in Massachusetts, 1884-1888
Gerald Friedman
REPORTS
A Public Forum: "Scholarly Controversy: Whiteness and the Historians' Imagination"
Michael Spear
REVIEWS
Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the History of Transgression [From Medieval to Modern],
by Bryan Palmer
Reviewed by Peter Linebaugh
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, by Susan Buck-Morss
Reviewed by Michael F. Gretz
Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin, by Belinda J. Davis;
Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War,
by Susan R. Grayzel
Reviewed by Katrin Schultheiss
Where Was the Working Class? Revolution in Eastern Germany, by Linda Fuller
Reviewed by William A. Pelz
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, by Angus Maddison
Reviewed by Michael Hanagan
Les ouvriers qualifies de l'industrie (XVIe-XX siecle): Formation, emploi, migrations,
Gerard Gayot and Philippe Minard, eds.
Reviewed by Keith Mann
Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France 1880-1922,
by Katrin Schultheiss
Reviewed by Jennifer V. Evans
To Be a Worker: Identity and Politics in Peru, by Jorge Parodi
Reviewed by Laura Balbuena-Gonzalez
Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939-1949, by Victor Silverman
Reviewed by Ed Wehrle
Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle For Black Equality, by Bruce Nelson
Reviewed by Eric Arnesen
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky;
Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, by James Green
Reviewed by Daniel Bender
Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism, by Andrew Herod
Reviewed by Peter Nekola
Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877, by David O. Stowell;
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics, Richard Schneirov,
Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, eds.
Reviewed by Paul Le Blanc
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. Gorn
Reviewed by Caroline Waldron Merithew
Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement,
by Howard Kimeldorf
Reviewed by Richard A Greenwald
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, by Joshua Freeman
Reviewed by Thomas J. Sugrue
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, by Mary L. Dudziak
Reviewed by Eric Arnesen
