"Detroit Industry" detail, by Diego Rivera

NO. 65 SPRING 2004

AGRICULTURE AND WORKING-CLASS FORMATION

Not a "Sack of Potatoes": Why Labor Historians Need to Take Agriculture Seriously

Cindy Hahamovitch

Rick Halpern

Class Formation in Latin America: One Family's Enduring Journey between Country and City

Steve Striffler

Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa

Keith Breckenridge

Rural Work, Household Subsistence, and the North American Working Class: A View from the Midwest

Toby Higbie

Without His Consent?": Marriage and Women's Migration in Colonial India

Samita Sen

ARTICLES

The State Versus the Trades Guilds: Parliament's Soldier-Apprentices in the English Civil War Period, 1642-1655

John Shedd

British Communists, the British Empire, and the Second World War

Neil Redfern

The "Globalization" of Labor and Working-Class History and its Consequences

Marcel van der Linden

REPORTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking Twentieth Century American Social Thought

Mark Hendrickson

History and Perspectives of the Left

Peter Winn

UK-Australian Labour History Conference

Neville Kirk

BOOK REVIEWS

Rebel Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Jan Kok

Reviewed by Michael Hanaga

Between Moscow and Hollywood: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991, by Stephen Gundle

Reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn

Socialist Internationals: A Bibliography of Publications of the Social-Democratic and Socialist Internationals, 1914-2000, by Gerd Callesen

Reviewed by Reiner Tosstorff

Arbeiterlied—Arbeitergesang, Hundert Jahre Arbeitermusikkultur in Deutschland: Aufsätze und Vorträge aus 40 Jahren 1959-1998, by Inge Lammel

Reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, by Joan B. Landes

Reviewed by Katrin Schultheiss

Cheminots en greve: ou la construction d'une identite (1848-2001), by Christian Chevandier

Reviewed by Keith Mann

Italy's Many Diasporas, by Donna R. Gabaccia

Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States, by Donna R. Gabaccia and Fraser M. Ottanelli

Reviewed by Peter R. D'Agostino

Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Postwar American Occupation of Germany, by John Willoughby

Reviewed by Maria Höhn

Eduard Bernsteins Briefwechsel mit Karl Kautsky (1895-1905): Quellen und Studien zur Sozialgeschichte, 19, by Till Schelz-Brandenburg and Susanne Thurn

Reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921, by Claire A. Culleton

Reviewed by Kay McAdams

For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914, by Stephen Heathorn

Reviewed by Jeffrey Glasco

Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, by Anders Aslund

Russia's Bitter Path To Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras, by Alexander Chubarov

Reviewed by Alexei Pimenov

China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy, by Anita Chan

Reviewed by Renqiu Yu

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita, by Javier Auyero

Reviewed by Matthew B. Karush

Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil, by Jonathan W. Warren

Reviewed by John M. Norvell

The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945, by Peter M. Beattie

Reviewed by James P. Woodard

A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, edited by Diana Paton

Reviewed by Jerome Teelucksingh

In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, by Steve Striffler

Reviewed by Lois Roberts

Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994, by Gillian Creese

Reviewed by Sharon Hartman Strom

A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War, by Paul Foos

Reviewed by Bruce Laurie

Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy, by Edward C. Lorenz

Reviewed by Dana Frank

Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, by John Hinshaw

Reviewed by Ruth Needleman

Much More than A Game: Players, Owners and American Baseball Since 1921, by Robet F. Burk

The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81, by Charles P. Korr

Reviewed by Joseph L. Arbena

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II, by Daniel Kryder

Reviewed by Robert O. Self

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