NUMBER 82 | FALL 2012 - CONTENTS

DEDICATION

Senior Editors' Note

Carolyn Brown, Jennifer Klein, and Peter Winn

ILWCH AND LABOR HISTORY: ORIGINS, VISION, AND TRAJECTORY

Introduction

Peter Winn

ILWCH: Forty Years On

Geoffrey Field and Michael Hanagan

A Conversation with David Montgomery, May 27, 2011

Geoffrey Field and Michael Hanagan

REMEMBERING DAVID MONTGOMERY

Introduction

Peter Winn

David Montgomery: A Biography

Claude Montgomery

The Leading Labor Historian in the United States

Joshua B. Freeman

Larger Than Life: Remembering David

Michael Hanagan

From Warwick to Pittsburgh: Shaping the New Labor Historians

Neville Kirk

Transforming ILWCH: Pioneering the International Approach to Labor History

Cecilia Bucki

Asking the Right Questions: Montgomery Remembered

Dorothy Fujita-Rony

Montgomery the Mentor, Montgomery the Activist

Shana Redmond

Understanding Contemporary Workers’ Struggles: Remembering David Montgomery

Mae Ngai

An Extraordinary Man, An Extraordinary Historian

Andrea Graziosi

David Montgomery in Brazil

Michael Hall and Claudio Batalha

We Are All Montgomery’s ‘Students’

Peter Winn

SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY: DEFINING GLOBAL LABOR HISTORY

Introduction

Carolyn Brown

The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History

Marcel van der Linden

RESPONSES

How Far From Africa’s Shore?

Franco Barchiesi

Global Labor History: The Future of the Field?

Peter Winn

Reviving Labor History on a Global Scale

Ju¨rgen Kocka

The Promise and Peril of New Global Labor History

Dorothy Sue Cobble

Global Labor History: A Dialogue with Marcel van der Linden

Prasannan Parthasarathi

NEW DIRECTIONS IN LABOR HISTORY AROUND THE GLOBE

Introduction

Jennifer Klein

When the Plumber(s) Come to Fix a Country: Doing Labor History in Brazil

John D. French and Alexandre Fortes

Indian Labor History

Prasannan Parthasarathi

Rethinking the Underclass: Future Directions in Southern African Labor History

Ralph Callebert

Bringing Ideology Back In: Chinese Labor Studies in a Time of Transformation

Xiaodan Zhang

REVIEW ESSAYS

Editor’s Note

Kate Brown

Taking Stock: Labor History During the Past Fifty Years

Neville Kirk

An Enlightening Decade? New Histories of 1970s’ Britain

Lawrence Black

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Working in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey: Ottoman and Turkish Labor History within a Global Perspective, A Conference Report

M. Erdem Kabadayi and Kate Elizabeth Creasey

The Excluded Workers Congress: International Conference on the Human Right to Organize

Brenda Henry-Offor

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