Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Asadachi, Kotaro, “Nanboku senso-ki no doreishu niokeru jiyu rodo shakai-kan: Merirando shu 1864 nen shu kenpo seitei kaigi no giron kara” (The idea of free labor society in the slave states during the Civil War era: The state constitutional conventon of Maryland in 1864), Shikyo (Tsukuba), 56 (March 2008), 66–85. In Japanese.
Ayabe, Masatomo, “Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923–1926,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Spring 2009), 73–100.
Battistini, Matteo, “Radical Revisions: Thomas Skidmore Reads Thomas Paine in 1829 New York,” Common-Place, 9 (July 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Case, Theresa A., “Blaming Martin Irons: Leadership and Popular Protest in the 1886 Southwest Strike,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Jan. 2009), 111–36.
Eidlin, Barry, “‘Upon This (Foundering) Rock’: Minneapolis Teamsters and the Transformation of U.S. Business Unionism, 1934–1941,” Labor History, 50 (Aug. 2009), 249–67.
Evans, Stefani, “‘Middling Sorts’ and Baptisms: Alathea ‘Alleta’ Sadler (ca. 1732–1806) of New York and Poughkeepsie,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (June 2009), 97–110.
Freeman, Elizabeth E., “Ragtown: Wirt, Oklahoma, and the Healdton Boom,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 34–55.
Ishiyama, Noriko, “Kororado Riba Indian Kyojuchi no nochi kaitaku to Nikkeijin rodoryoku: Posuton shuyojo no chiri-kukan” (The agricultural development of the Colorado River Indian Reservation and Japanese-American labor: A geographical analysis of the Poston Internment Camp), Rikkyo Amerikan Sutadizu (Tokyo), 30 (March 2008), 135–52. In Japanese.
Jones, Jacqueline, “Labor and the Idea of Race in the American South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 613–26.
Keller, Charles L., “Regulator Johnson, the Man behind the Legend,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 260–74.
Maines, Rachel, “Rocky Landscape with Cheese Factory: The Stone Mills Union of LaFargeville, New York, 1896–1925,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 257–76.
Minami, Shuhei, “Kokusai Denkiko Roso (Local 3) to komyuniti no kyokai: Jukurenko no kizuna to ‘denkiko no machi’ Erekuchesuta o chushin ni” (Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the boundary of the community: The bonds of the skilled workers and ‘electrical workers’ town’ Eelectchester), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 31 (2008), 56–72. In Japanese.
Minchin, Timothy J., “‘It Knocked This City to Its Knees’: The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry,” Labor History, 50 (Aug. 2009), 287–311.
Moriwaki, Yumiko, “Burakku feisu minsutoreru to rodosha kaikyu: 19 seiki zenhan Nyuyoku niokeru jinshu to kaikyu” (Blackface minstrelsy and the American working class: Race and class in early-nineteenth-century New York City), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 604 (2008), 684–93. In Japanese.
Newman, Simon P., “Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 161–75.
Norwood, Stephen H., “Organizing the Neglected Worker: The Women’s Trade Union League in New York and Boston, 1930–1950,” Labor History, 50 (May 2009), 163–85.
Pehl, Matthew, “The Remaking of the Catholic Working Class: Detroit, 1919–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 19 (Winter 2009), 37–67.
Richardson, John G., “Mill Owners and Wobblies: The Event Structure of the Everett Massacre of 1916,” Social Science History, 33 (Summer 2009), 183–215.
Rondinone, Troy, “Guarding the Switch: Cultivating Nationalism during the Pullman Strike,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Jan. 2009), 83–109.
Shostak, Arthur B., “patco’s 1981 Strike: Leadership Coordinates—A Unionist’s Perspective,” Labor Studies Journal, 34 (June 2009), 149–58.
Street, Richard Steven, “Delano Diary: The Visual Adventure and Social Documentary Work of Jon Lewis, Photographer of the Delano, California, Grape Strike, 1966–1970,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2009), 191–235. Heavily illustrated.
Warner, Edward S., “The Employment of Seamen aboard American Great Lakes Commercial Sailing Vessels,” Inland Seas, 65 (Spring 2009), 14–25.
Ahlquist, John S., “Building and Using Strategic Capacity: Labor Union Confederations and Economic Policy” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3328363.
Larkin, Micaela Anne, “Labor’s Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions, and Entrepreneurial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917–1972” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3333914.
Martin, Lou, “Working for Independence: The Failure of New Deal Politics in a Rural Industrial Place” (West Virginia University, 2008). Order No. DA3326908.
Miller, Gregory M., “Place, Speed, Pace, and Power: The Struggle for Control of the Automobile Factory Shop Floor, 1896–2006” (University of Toledo, 2008). Order No. DA3329498.
Pearson, Chad, “‘Organize and Fight’: Communities, Employers, and Open-Shop Movements, 1890–1920” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3327492.
Swanson, Jon Krister, “The Rise of the mlbpa: One Craft Guild’s Safe Path Home” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3330482.
Braatz, Werner E., and Thomas J. Rowland, Decade of Despair: Winnebago County during the Great Depression, 1929–1939. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. vi, 115 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4640-6.)
Cushing, Lincoln, and Timothy W. Drescher, Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 205 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7427-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Fell, James E., Jr., Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xxiv, 341 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-87081-946-9.) Originally published in 1979.
Shaw, Randy, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the ufw, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xvi, 347 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25107-6.)
Smith, Duane A., San Juan Legacy: Life in the Mining Camps. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xviii, 163 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4650-6.)
Albert, Peter J., and Grace Palladino, eds., The Samuel Gompers Papers, vol. 11: The Postwar Years, 1918–21. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxxvi, 659 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-252-03389-6.)
Schwartz, Harvey, Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ilwu. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. xii, 347 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-295-98883-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-295-98884-9.)
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