Books Received

United States and Canada

Gary Clayton Anderson and Kathleen P. Chaberlain, Power and Promise: the Changing American West. Pearson Longman, 2008.

Frederick A. Barkey, Working Class Radicals: the Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920. West Virginia University Press, 2012.

Stephen F. Befort and John W. Budd, Invisible Hands, Invisible Objects: Bringing Workplace Law & Public Policy Into Focus. Stanford University Press, 2009.

Dan Berger, ed., The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism. Rutgers, the State University, 2010.

Josh Bivens, Failure by Design: the Story Behind America's Broken Economy. Cornell University, 2011

Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, eds., Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.

Anthony S. Chen, The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Coleen Doody, Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism. University of Illinois Press, 2013.

John P. Enyeart, The Quest for “Just and Pure Law”: Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy 1870-1924. Stanford University Press, 2009.

Lacy K. Ford, Deliver us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South.

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Shannon Gleeson, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston Cornell University Press, 2012.

David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey, eds., Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry. Cornell University, 2010.

Alyosha Goldstein, Poverty in Common: the Politics of Community Action During the American Century. Duke University Press, 2011.

Jeniffer F. Hamer, Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis. University of California, 2011.

Harry J. Holzer, Where Are All the Good Jobs Going?: What National and Local Job Quality and Dynamics Mean for U.S. Workers. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011.

Wayne L. Horvitz, What’s the Beef? Sixty Years of Hard-Won Lessons for Today’s Leaders in Labor, Management and Government. Hamilton Books, 2009.

Barbara Jensen, Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America by Barbara Jensen. Cornell University Press, 2012.

Arne L. Kalleberg, Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: the Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011.

Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie and Paul S. Adler, Healing Together: The Labour-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente Cornell University Press, 2009.

Peter Irons, Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. Penguin Books, 2004.

Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, eds., The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

James J. Lorence, The Unemployed People’s Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941. University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Joseph A. McCartin, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Erik S. McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism. Duke University Press 2011

Liesl Miller Orenic, On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2009.

Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz, The State of Working America, 12th edition. Cornell University Press, 2012.

Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien, Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged. University of California Press, 2011.

Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perruci, America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Huey Perry, “They'll Cut Off Your Project”: A Mingo County Chronicle. West Virginia University Press, 2011.

Lisa Phillips, A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. University of Illinois Press, 2013.

Michael Pierce, Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party

Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Robert D. Plotnick, ed., Old Assumptions, New Realities: Economic Security for Working Families in the 21^st Century. Russel Sage Foundation 2010

Ellen Reese, They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back!: Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011.

Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

Daniel Sidorick, Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. Cornell University, 2009

Sarah A. Soule, Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Keven Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012

Landon R. Y. Storrs, The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left. Princeton University Press, 2013.

Clarence Taylor, Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union. Columbia University Press, 2011

Jay Youngdahl, Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty: Navajos, Hozho, and Track Work. Utah State University Press, 2011.

Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby, Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America. University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Lynn Williams, One Day Longer: a Memoir. University of Toronto Press, 2011.

David A. Zonderman, Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston. University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

United Kingdom

Stephen Brooke, Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Ben Jones, The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. Manchester University Press, 2012.

Matthew Kadane, The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist. Yale University Press, 2013.

Western Europe

Martin Comack, Wild Socialism: Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918 – 1921. University Press of America, Inc., 2012.

Emmet O'Connor, A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000. University College, Dublin Press 2011.

Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf, eds., The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht, translated by Robert Simmons and Nick Somers. Polity Press, 2012.

Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis, translated. Polity Press, 2013.

Don Kalb and Gabor Halmai, eds., Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working-Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe. Berhahm Books, 2011.

Carsten Stoby Jensen, Industrial Relations in Denmark: From Conflict-Based Consensus to Consensus-Based Conflict. DJOF Publishing, Copenhagen, 2012.

Xavier Vigna, Histoire des Ouvriers en France au XX siècle. Perrin, 2012.

J. Timo Weishaupt, From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm: Explaining Institutional Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe. Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

Russia and Eastern Europe

Marjorie L. Hilton, Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

David A. Kideckel, Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, The Body, and Working-Class Culture. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Latin America

Michelle L. Dion, Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth-Century Mexico. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Paulo Drinot, The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State.

Duke University Press, 2011.

Paul Gootenberg and Louis Reygadas, eds., Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture. Duke University Press, 2010.

Sujatha Fernandes, Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela. Duke University Press, 2011.

Matthew B. Karush, Oscar Chamosa, eds., The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina. Duke University Press, 2010.

Jungle Laboratories, Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Duke University Press, 2009.

Natalia Milanesio, Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2013.

Maria Clemencia Ramirez, Between the Guerrillas and the Statements: the Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon. Duke University Press, 2011.

David M.K. Sheinim, Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War. University Press of Florida, 2013.

Robert L. Smale, “I Sweat the Flavor of Tin”: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

William J. Suarez-Potts, The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875 – 1931. Stanford University Press, 2013.

J.T. Way, The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development and the Making of Modern Guatemala. Duke University Press, 2012.

Robert Weis, Bakers & Basques: A Social History of Bread in Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 2012.

Asia

Andrew Gordon, Fabricating Consumers: the Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2012.

Mari Miura, Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics and Social Protection in Japan. Cornell University Press, 2012.

Elizabeth J. Perry, Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition. University of California Press, 2012.

Jayeeta Sharma, Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Duke University Press, 2011.

Global/Transnational/Comparative

Martin Albrow and Hakan Seckinelgin, eds., Global Civil Society 2011: Globality and the Absence of Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch, eds.,What's Left of the Left: Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times. Duke University Press, 2011.

Susan L. Kang, Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Daniel Katz, All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism. New York University Press, 2011.

A. Ricardo Lopez and Barbara Weinstein, eds., The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History. Duke University Press, 2012.

Biju Mathew, Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City. Cornell University Press, 2008.

John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942, Duke University Press, 2012.

Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook, Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic inequality in Twenty-One Countries. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

Lara Putnam, Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age, The University of North Carolina Press,  2013.

Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora. Duke University Press, 2011.

Jeffrey J. Sallaz, The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa. University of California Press, 2009.

Stefan Svallfors, ed., Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford University Press, 2012.

Carol Williams, ed., Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism, University of Illinois Press, 2012.

Theoretical

Franco “Bifo” Berardi, The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Semiotexte, 2009

James C. Docherty and Sjaak Van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor 3rd edition. The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2012.

James T. Fisher, On the Irish Waterfront: The crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York. Cornell University Press, 2009.

Rebecca Kolins Givan, Kenneth M. Roberts and Sarah A. Soule, eds., The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Jacques Le Goff, Money and the Middle Ages, translated by Jean Birrell. Polity Press, 2012.

Joy Heine, ed., A Worker Justice Reader: Essential Readings on Religion and Labor. Orbis books, 2010.

Massimo Livi-Bacci, translated by Carl Ipsen, A Short History of Migration. Polity Press, 2012.

Stephen Morillo with Michael F. Pavkovic, What is Military History?, 2nd edition. Polity Press, 2013.

Tyler Stovall, Paris and The Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Amanda Tattersall, Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change. Cornell University Press, 2010.