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LOOKING AHEAD FROM CELEBRATING JAMES GREEN NOVEMBER CONTINGENT FACULTY 2016 PRIZE & AWARD COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER WINNERS GLOBAL AFFAIRS 2015 BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE REPORT 2016

LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2016 - Newest Newest Version.indd 1 10/20/2016 7:11:49 AM LAWCHA Officers President Treasurer James Gregory, University of Washington Liesl Miller Orenic, Dominican University

Vice President Executive Assistant Julie Greene, University of Maryland Hannah Ontiveros, Duke University

National Secretary Immediate Past President Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University Nancy MacLean, Duke University

Board Members

Term Ending March, 2017 Term Ending March, 2018 Term Ending March, 2019

Lilia Fernandez, Michael Innis-Jiménez Colin J. Davis Ohio State University University of Alabama University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ken Fones-Wolf, LaShawn Harris Keona K. Ervin University Michigan State University University of Missouri

Mox Krochmal, Jennifer Scherer Sonia Hernandez Texas Christian University University of Iowa Texas A&M

Talitha LeFlouria, Nikki Mandell Emily E. LB. Twarog University of Virginia University of Wisconsin-Whitewater University of at Urbana-Champaign

Naomi Williams, Frank Tobias (Toby) Higbie Lane Windham University of Wisconsin-Madison University of California-Los Angeles Georgetown

Table of Contents

President’s Perspective: Looking Past November p. 2 by Jim Gregory Teaching and Learning Labor’s Story Committee Report p. 5 Prize Winners and Awards p. 6 Celebrating the Live of James Green p. 8 with a remembrance by Jim O’Brien LAWCHA Global Affairs Committee Report p. 11 LAWCHA’s Contingent Faculty and Contingent Labor Blog p. 11 by Eric Fure-Slocum Labor History Bibliography, 2015 p. 12 compiled by Rosemary Feurer

Newsletter Covering 2015-2016 Newsletter Editor Rosemary Feurer Published October, 2016 Printed by Barefoot Press (Raleigh, NC) Newsletter Layout Ryan M. Poe

Cover illustration courtesy the New Faculty Majority’s official blog, Majority Rule, which can be accessed athttps://extraordinaryfacultynfm.wordpress.com/ “Activism--’Coming Out’ as an Adjunct,” by Lee Kottner, July 11, 2015. https://extraordinaryfacultynfm.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/activism-coming-out-as-an-adjunct/

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hings are going to be different after November intellectual culture of an entire society as brilliant T8. We are either going to veer into a sequence of young people realize that there is no future in aca- madness that is beyond imagining or we will have demia. a new Democrat in the White House and then a Su- The Fight for $15 and other living wage cam- preme Court capable of reversing some of the tragic paigns have set agendas that need to be brought into rulings of the last decade. We may be facing a rare and academia. Many schools are routinely paying adjunct strange opportunity, an LBJ type opportunity. Clin- faculty less than a living wage, while hiding that fact - behind obscure employment formulas. Hiring adjunct ing activism of millennials in the Sanders, Dreamers, faculty on a course-by-course basis, one semester at a andton’s Black difficulties, Lives theMatter disarray movements in the GOP, may and provide the surg an opportunity to build effective social movements that practice at even wealthy universities. time, payingBut who no benefits—thisis calculating haswhat become this meansstandard in - lawmakers cannot ignore. That was the Great Society victims. What kind of living do you make when you importantformula. LBJ’s laws Congress and still more faced activism. fired up socialDoes history move areterms paid of less paychecks than $3000 and workingper course hours? (the Onlynational the repeat?ments alongside If so, hopefully a divided without GOP. Thenew result imperial was wars. a set of Be that as it may, it is clear that we are in a three courses one semester and three the next, you moment of political passion and mobilization and haveaverage earned appears $18,000. to be And about how $2700)? many hoursIf you have can findyou LAWCHA is positioned to help with some of the criti- worked on teaching, grading, consulting, and course cal challenges, especially on the campuses where preparation for those six classes? Too many. Some many of us work. Schools, colleges, and universities schools pay more but none want to consider whether are ground zero for several of the new civil rights and they are meeting living wage standards or minimum labor movements. Black Lives Matter and the Immi- wage laws. And other laws and standards are ignored. Why are contingent faculty denied unemployment in- generation leadership on campuses. TA union cam- surance? paignsgrant Rights have movementnew energy find after much the of Columbiatheir millennial- NLRB LAWCHA’s Committee on Contingent Faculty ruling. And the crisis of faculty precarity has reached a new level of urgency. everyone’sand its blog concern. will push We the need fight to bring against it precarityto our cam in- Committee on Contingent Faculty puses,academia. to unions Please andjoin news in. We media, need andto make to lawmakers this fight at every level. Last year, with encouragement from past president Nancy MacLean, an ad hoc committee drafted pro- LAWCHA 2016 Awards posals that the Board of Directors adopted at its April 2016 meeting, most importantly creating the Com- mittee on Contingent Faculty and with it a new blog successful thanks to our intrepid program commit- tee.Our LAWCHAmeeting withorganized the OAH or sponsored in Providence 18 sessions was highly and hosted a wine and beer reception attended by nearly markets,associated the with great LaborOnline. crisis of higher LAWCHA education. is now fully 100 members and friends. Jobs With Justice members committedCasualization to fighting has precarity many victims. in academic It destroys labor led a fascinating walking tour of historical and con- livelihoods and shatters the careers of scholars who - have worked for years to earn advanced degrees and wa deserves thanks for arranging this. build valuable skills. It undermines the quality of edu- temporaryThe laborawards sites banquet in Providence. was especially Naoka Shibusa memo- cation and the system of governance of colleges and rable. Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf won universities, and ultimately it threatens to shrink the the David Montgomery Award. Talitha LeFloria and

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Taft Labor History Book Award. Stephen Beda accept- former president and founding member. We did not - know it then but Jim had only a few months to live. The tion. Sarah F. Rose and Joshua A. T. Salzmann won the citation thanked him for exemplary contributions to bested the article Herbert award. G. Gutman Prize for the Best Disserta The highlight was the presentation of the and to LAWCHA (see article). His death on June 26 provokedthe field of an labor outpouring history, toof socialadmiration justice and movements, affection, some of which has been recorded on the LAWCHA LAWCHA Distinguished Service Award to Jim Green, his life will be held November 12 at Carpenters’ Union website’s Jim Green memorial page. A celebration of Love and Solidarity Hall in . a film by Michael Honey and Errol Webber Board of Directors Decisions

LAWCHA is thriving. We came close to reaching the - town conference. Unfortunately, not everyone is re- newing600-member promptly milestone so the in number 2015 following has since the fallen, George as it often does in our non-conference years. Member- ship should surge again with the Seattle conference. Fourteen percent of our members are graduate stu- dents who currently pay dues of $25. Responding to Love and Solidarity is an exploration of nonviolence and a request from the Committee on Contingent Faculty, organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Law- the Board authorized the Executive Committee to ne- son. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while work- ing with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles ) for a reduced rate for contingent faculty. We and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Labor Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organiz- hopegotiate to withbe able Duke to implementUniversity thosePress changes(which publishes in 2018. ing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have - helped to remake the LA labor movement. nances are healthy and the Board authorized more Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed Treasurer Liesl Orenic reported that our fi labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-win- graduate student travel awards for LAWCHA confer- ning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson’s discourse on non- ences and support for other initiatives including the violent direct action on the front burner of today’s struggles Teaching Resources Committee and its active blog. against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for hu- man rights, peace, and economic justice. 38 MINUTES AVAILABLE NOW news of a generous gift. Liz and Ken Fones-Wolf do- natedShortly $500, after half the Providenceof the Montgomery meeting, weprize. received Many LoveAndSolidarity.bullfrogcommunities.com thanks!

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Archive for LAWCHA Papers tee members Jana Lipman, Ken Fones-Wolf, and Max Krochmal have organized several sessions and ar- At the initiative of former Treasurer, Tom Klug, LAW- ranged for LAWCHA to sponsor others, eighteen in all. CHA’s organizational records are to be archived at In addition, we will hold a luncheon. Talitha LeFloria, the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State. Found- whose book, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, won the Taft Award encouraged to preserve documents (including digital and other prizes, will be the guest speaker. ing mothers and fathers and subsequent officers are [email protected]. LAWCHA Board of Directors and Executive correspondence) and contact Jim Gregory or Hannah Committee at the OAH Conference, 2016. OntiverosLaborOnline at the and Facebook Page

outreach has been growing. Each day 100-150 people visitThanks our to website Rosemary and Feuer our facebook and Ryan page Poe hasour digitalnearly

publishes a steady stream of important contributions some3000 of followers. which have Meanwhile been subsequently our blog LaborOnlinerepublished in other outlets. Most blog entries reach at least 1000

readers. PleaseLAWCHA read and at please AHA and contribute. OAH

Sophia Lee has joined our program committee and is now our liaison with the AHA. For the January 5-8 LAWCHA Booth at the OAH, 2016. From left to right: Colin J. Davis, Hannah Ontiveros, Toby Higbee, and Emily LB Twarog. Denver meeting, LAWCHA will sponsor five sessions.- As we do every year, we will be part of the OAH meeting April 6-9 in New Orleans. Program Commit

COMMUNITIES,Scales MOVEMENTS, ofand GLOBAL Struggle CONNECTIONS

June 23-25, 2017 - University of Washington, Seattle

Our 2017 annual meeting will be in Seattle, June 23-25, at the University of Washington. This gives us a chance to visit the left coast city where labor has been winning important victories and pioneering new strategies. And late June is a great time to see the Pacific Northwest. Stay after the conference and explore Seattle and the mountains, islands, and waterways of Puget Sound.

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AWCHA launched a teachers/public sector worker to reveal labor voices, experiences and actions during Ltoolkit at its website about eighteen months ago. commonly recognized historical eras and events. Each The toolkit is part of LAWCHA’s mission to promote document will be accompanied by a custom-written an- “public and scholarly awareness of labor and working- notation that contextualizes it (highlighting both broad class history” and “teaching labor history in the class- room, from K12 to colleges and universities.” Easily ac- document’s connection to established history curricu- cessed through the Teaching Resources link,1 the toolkit lum;trends and and provides noteworthy a brief particularities); glossary of terms, identifies additional the includes a rich variety of sources that can be used for resources, and discussion/writing prompts. learning and teaching about labor and working class Teaching Labor’s Story will be a peer-reviewed, history. The teaching blog2 encourages dialog about crowdsourcing and web-publishing opportunity for these and other sources. LAWCHA members and their students. After testing the Now, the teacher/public sector committee is ex- cited to announce the next phase of this initiative: Teach- Call for Contributions and sample document annota- ing Labor’s Story. Teaching Labor’s Story will address tionsfirst models to the Teaching in the Fall, Resources the committee link in early plans 2017. to post Look a the neglect and distortions of labor’s story in standard for opportunities to learn more about this at the 2017 textbooks and narratives used in high schools and uni- LAWCHA Conference in Seattle. versities across the country. It seeks to meet teachers, labor educators and public sector workers where they are by providing resources that can be readily incorpo- rated by experts and non-experts alike into their exist- ___ ing curriculum. The Teaching Labor’s Story project will 1. LAWCHA.org/wordpress/teaching-resources consist of primary source documents carefully selected 2. LAWCHA.org/wordpress/committee-portal/teaching-committee

LAWCHA Seeks Manuscript Submission and Reviewers for Labor

abor Advice to Authors Land permanent museum exhibits about the working class history ofreviews the Americas monographs, (Latin America,anthologies, the films,United TV States, shows, If you want your book to be reviewed by Labor, please be and Canada), as well as books about other parts of the world sure we get it. Many presses neglect to send books out to that we think will be of interest to labor historians anywhere. We do not generally review new editions of books, document the journals you want to receive your book doesn’t mean readers, memoirs, or temporary exhibits. itjournals will happen. for review. And even Just becausepresses thatyou filleddo regularly out a form send listing us To volunteer, email [email protected] a books often miss books we think are relevant. We recom- mend that you ask your press to send you the list of journals to which they’ve sent your book and feel free to check with circumstances,note listing your we fields do not of expertisepermit people and attaching to suggest a copythe books of us at [email protected] to make sure we’ve received it. theyyour wantCV. Please to review note, and though, we do that, not except publish under reviews exceptional by gradu - Direct editorial correspondence and manuscripts for ate students. submission to: - says. If you have or would like to write a review essay on a Professor Leon Fink subject youOne think exception would to be the important solicitation to Laborrule is’s review readers, es Department of History (MC 198) please feel free to contact us. If you’re revising your disserta- University of Illinois at Chicago tion for publication and your press wants you to take out the 913 University Hall 601 S. Morgan St. historiographical section, consider sending a version of it to Chicago, IL 60607 Labor. e-mail: [email protected]

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2016 - Newest Newest Version.indd 5 10/20/2016 7:11:51 AM Taft Prize, 2016

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, the New South 1890s-1990s by Talitha L. LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University by Nancy Woloch, Barnard College University of North Carolina Press Princeton University Press

Talitha L. LeFlouria’s Chained in Silence: Black Wom- Nancy Woloch’s book, A Class by Herself: Protective en and Convict Labor in the New South (The Univer- Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s

at the cutting edge of the newest even-handed, careful,(Princeton and in- southernsity of North labor Carolina history, Press) putting is sightfulUniversity research, Press) illuminating exemplifies renewed emphasis on types of key cases affecting labor stan- labor coercion persisting in the dards legislation over the course wake of slavery. Her innova- of the 20th century. Speaking to tive research uses oral history broad themes about gender and sources and medical records to labor, A Class by Herself synthe- interrogate convict workers’ ex- sizes years of research into a periences in new ways. powerful narrative.

The Taft Prize Committee this year consisted of Ileen De Vault (Chair, Cornell), Lawrence Glickman (Cornell), Stacey Smith (Oregon State, LAWCHA), Tom Dublin (SUNY- Binghamton, LAWCHA) and Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers, LA WCHA).

LABORONLINE Prize, 2016 LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical, as well as “instant” dialogue and debate among readers and authors about the contents of LAWCHA’s print journal, Labor. Recent posts and articles include, Steven C. Beda

• Jews in the Labor Movement: Past, Present and Future Landscapes of Solidarity: Timber Workers and the by Bennett Muraskin Making of Place in the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1964 • Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor University of Washington, 2015 by Pamela Fox Advisor: James Gregory • White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes by Jack Metzgar Skillfully linking social and environmental history, Beda • The ILWU History Project by Harvey Schwartz and Robin Walker analyzes archival, literary and quantitative sources to paint • The New Democrats and the Old Dominion: A Legacy of the Hyper-Capitalist a rich and novel portrait of timber workers’ engagement 1990s with the social, political and environmental worlds of the by Michael Dennis - • Some Silver Linings for the Working Class in British Politics? man, Beda reached these conclusions through a painstaking by Tim Stangleman exploration20th century of Pacific the work, Northwest family and In the community spirit of Herbert lives of Guttim- • Irish Rebels at Home and Abroad by Paul Buhle • The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning? Micro Samples allows him to recover the dense networks by Sherry Linkon ofber family workers. and communitySkillful analysis that sustainedof the Integrated individual Public workers Use • Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party by Mark Lause Wisconsinas they travelled Madison; throughout Jarod Roll, the region.University This ofyear’s Mississippi; Gutman LAWCHA.org/LaborOnline andprize Jacob committee Remes, consisted SUNY Empire of William State P.College. Jones, University of

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2016 - Newest Newest Version.indd 6 10/20/2016 7:11:51 AM For more information on LAWCHA’s awards and prizes, please visit LAWCHA.org/wordpress/grants-prizes/ David Montgomery Award, 2016 Committee: Eric Arnesen, Chair; Bruce Laurie (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and Deborah Cohen (University of Missouri-St. Louis)

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Kenneth Fones-Wolf University of Illinois Press

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Kenneth Fones-Wolf address several central is- -

thesues South in labor in a history: substantial the way,failure on of the the one Congress hand, and of lndustrialthe nature Organiza of south- erntion’s workers’ Operation religious Dixie andworldviews, the inability on the of the other. labor Southern movement white to workers’unionize skepticism of organized labor rested, in part, on their deeply held religious commitments, which were underestimated or misunderstood by north- ern trade unionists who sought to enlist southern workers in their cause. Yet the men and women in these pages were neither misled by employer paternalism nor misdirected by labor’s opponents. Their religious beliefs provided them with sources of personal and community strength; they

authors make a convincing case that organized labor’s fate in the South cannotalso informed be understood their priorities without andattention influenced to the their “cultural political and religiouschoices. Theval- ues” of working people. They provide us with a nuanced and respectful ac- HONORABLE MENTION count of southern workers their religious beliefs, and religion’s role in shaping re- Smokestacks in the Hills sponses to the postwar efforts to organize Rural Industrial Workers in West Virginia the South. In so doing, they challenge labor historians to take religion seriously as a by Lou Martin, Chatham University powerful force and constitutive element of University of Illinois Press their subjects’ lives.

2016 Distinguished Service Award James Green

AWCHA’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and century at the University of Massachusetts, while provid- L - ing models for other labor historians to follow, including by his role in documentaries of working-class history in of HistoryWorking-Class at the University History was of Massachusetts presented by Past-PresiBoston, in dent Nancy MacLean to James Green, Professor Emeritus most recently “The Mine Wars,” aired nationally this year members and this organization over so many years. “The Great Depression,” with Blackside Productions, and honor of his exemplary contributions to the field and its- As an activist, Jim has been part of nearly every cal tour guides, and other cutting-edge labor education in PBS’s distinguished “American Experience” series. “In seven books, many articles, films, exhibits, lo new avenues of scholarly inquiry and pioneered new ways struggle for social justice over the past five decades. A toand communicate public history historical projects, narratives Professor to Green broad hasaudiences. opened organization’sfounding member journal, of LAWCHA, Labor: Studies Jim was in Working-Class elected President His- toryin 2003, serving and laterduring as associatehis term ofeditor. office helped launch the made labor history into public history over the last half Devoted first and foremost to education, Green has 7 LAWCHA.org - @LAWCHA_ORG - Facebook.org/LaborAndWorkingClassHistory

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EVENT: Celebration of Jim’s Life and Work 2pm, November 12, 2016 In the days after Jim’s death, many LAWCHA members shared memo- Boston, Massachusetts, ries. LaborOnline asked Jim O’Brien, who had known and worked with Jim Green for more than forty years to write about their friendship and The Labor Resource Center and many friends and family about Jim Green’s impact on labor history and social justice. of Jim Green will be gathering to celebrate Jim’s life and work at 2 pm on Saturday, November 12, at the Carpen- ter’s union hall (750 Dorchester Ave, Boston MA), and Memories of Jim Green we hope you can join us. by Jim O’Brien

lunch (at a Lebanese restaurant in Boston’s South End, where of many left-history projects, from the early-70s Radical Historians hewas lived determined at the time), not to webe definedalmost byimmediately it. When Jim started and I metspecu for- CaucusNote: The and Author Radical is America a friend magazine of Jim Green to Historians since 1971, Against has been the Warpart, of which he is co-chair lating about a potential radical history conference, aimed at bringing together radical academics and community/labor or- ganizers. (It was held the following spring at MIT with a good W attendance.) We also began a friendship that enriched my life year juniorhen I movedhistory to professor Boston in at the Brandeis fall of 1971, University one of nearby. the first I people I set outRadical to meet America was magazine,Jim Green, also then new a second- to Bos- This remembrance will be heavy on the 1970s and for just short of forty-five years. atthink the Paul University Buhle of of Wisconsin had shared a range of radical- the present, the higher the proportion of readers who already historyton, tipped projects, me off. certain Paul and that I aand new other understanding history grad of students history know1980s atfor least two thereasons. basics, One most is that notably the closerhis fabulous his story books gets onto was emerging from the 1960s New Left that we were part of. Jim was seen as a kindred spirit. The other reason is that the creative merger in his work be- Jim at the time had his plate full. A sheep among senior tweenHaymarket academia (2006) and and engagement the West Virginiatook shape mine in this wars early (2015). pe- wolves in the Brandeis history department, he was pouring riod and never really changed. Even had his time at Brandeis gone better, Jim would dissertation, praised highly by his adviser, the have felt uncomfortable in a purely academic setting. But he energy into his teaching while scrambling to finish his lengthy- never felt uncomfortable as a historian. His instincts nudged him toward exploring history in a way that enabled him to Leftlegendary historian’s C. Vann digging Woodward. for what (The common topic people– populist had and striven social for bring a nonacademic audience and readership along with him. andist movements accomplished in in the the American past. It didn’t Southwest bespeak – bespokegood prospects a New The radical history conferences (one a year 1972-74) were an example of his desire for bridge building. So was his work on As Jim recounted the conversation years later, David Hackett Radical America magazine, whose editorial collective Jim joined Fischerfor flourishing once approached in the academic him to history say he world had no of chance the early for ‘70s. get- in 1972. RA offered a voice for activists, past and present, and ting tenure and also would not be given the customary year’s sought to put the tools of academic research to present-day uses, with accessible language. Jim put together special issues in your case.”) on American labor in the 1930s and the 1940s, and with Allen employmentBusy after as he tenure was in denial commencing – “We’re his making academic an exceptioncareer, he Hunter he wrote a long, trenchant article on the background of Boston’s school-integration crisis of 1974-75, “Racism and

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Busing in Boston.” In a sophisticated but highly readable way, the article counterposed the black community’s long struggle for better schooling to the Boston School Committee’s populist racism.

as measured by academic prestige, upward as measured by his own kindHis of employmenthistory. His Brandeis took a giant stay leap had in been 1977 extended – downward by a year’s leave in 1975-76 to teach at Warwick University in the U.K., but the spring semester of 1977 was unmistakably the end of the road. Happily, an opening emerged just then at the Uni-

versity of Massachusetts Boston, specifically in UMass Boston’s New Left–inspired the College History of PublicDepartment and Community and then (in Service 2014) (CPCS). He taught inretiring. CPCS for thirty years until transferring to Radical America Magazine, whose editorial collective Jim joined in 1972. mid-career social service and public ser- vice workers,CPCS, created many of in whom 1973, hadwas some aimed col at- and from Manchester to Colchester.” In 1978 he and two fellow lege experience but not bachelor’s degrees. Boston-area historians, Marty Blatt and Susan Reverby, formed Many were union members, and not a few the Massachusetts History Workshop, whose story is very well were hungry for a broadened understand- told in Chapters 2 and 4 of Jim’s partly autobiographical book ing of the union movement and its history. Taking History to Heart. The most successful of the Workshop’s The Labor Studies degree program which early programs brought two hundred current and former cleri- cal workers, overwhelmingly women, together with historians - he soon started was a wonderful fit for a involved upwards of a hundred people. The Workshop also ini- moresignificant generally, part ofalso CPCS’s encouraged nearly unique and cher stu- tiatedof women’s two majorwork; acommemorative follow-up oral history events project at Boston’s on office Faneuil work isheddent population.his research. CPCS, In 1979, and UMassthe year Boston after Hall (one in 1983 honoring the 1903 founding of the Women’s Jim’s dissertation-turned book, Grass- his revised dissertation emerged in book League and one in 1986 for the hundredth anni- Roots Socialism, published in 1979. form as Grassroots Socialism, he won the versary of the original eight-hour campus-wide Chancellor’s Award for Dis- strike) that involved elements of tinguished Scholarship. I’m struck by the memory that in the mid-1970s, when the official trade union movement.- historians, put together an annotated guide to North American shopArthur as Osborn,a leftist “front president group,” of but the workingJim and Paulclass Falerhistory, and only I, along a small with minority several of young the U.S. Canadian entries endedstate AFL-CIO, up speaking scorned at both the events Work were academic history books. They were crowded-out by nov- - his federation (notably the build- veying a feel for the past. For Jim, I think this posed a dilemma, ingbecause trades influential in the case groups of the within 1986 els, memoirs, and films, which we saw as better ways of con- event) had jumped in with enthu- siasm. since he felt an affinity for the growing number of young aca Looking back, 1986 demic historians influenced (as he was, especially during his- marked a turning point in Jim’s rootsyear at Socialism Warwick) was by aBritish conscious historians effort suchto incorporate as E. P. Thompson much of ability to dialogue with the main- theand new Eric research Hobsbawm. into Hisa narrative first major history. book At project ’s after invitaGrass- stream labor movement. The same tion, he wrote a book that Hill and Wang published in 1980 as unionists to Faneuil Hall for the The World of the Worker: Labor in The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America, Twentieth-Century America, 1980. still in demand today. He never lost the fellow-feeling with eight-houryear that broughtcommemoration five hundred was other academic labor historians of his generation (and subse- quently younger generations) even as he aimed his own writ- discussion sessions each winter in the Harvard Trade Union ing and speaking at a nonacademic audience. the first of thirty years in which Jim led a half-dozen lecture/ - tical work were Anna Davin, Raphael Samuel, and others in the countries.Program. ThroughThe United them Mine he Workers, met a great under variety the new of midlevel reform The British historians who most influenced Jim’s prac leadershipunion officers of Rich and Trumka,staffers from was especiallyacross the wellUS as represented well as other in As he later wrote, “They had created a popular history move- the Harvard sessions. Trumka soon recruited Jim to make la- mentHistory through Workshop which that they flourished shared radical at Ruskin history College, with workingLondon. people in countless venues from Aberdeen to Kentish Town UMW’s Executive Board, and Jim later organized Boston-area bor-history presentations to West Virginia activists and to the

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support for the union’s bitter and ulti- tions with coal mine unionists. The Devil Is Here in These Hills Coal in 1989-90. - mately successfulHis next strikemajor against book Pittstonproject (Grove Atlantic, 2015) didn’t come to fruition until exactly twen- told the story of industrial conflict in south ty years after The World of the Worker. documentaryern West Virginia The inMine the Wars, early twentiethand was Taking History to Heart: The Power of the proudcentury. that He it consulted had drawn on four last millionwinter’s view PBS- Past in Building Social Movements (U. of ers. Toward the very end of his life he was amused and intrigued to correspond with a the way of presenting history that had group that wants to make the story into a movedMassachusetts to the center Press, of his 2000) life. The reflected heart musical. of the book was a thoughtful recounting By the time the book appeared, and of his own mixed successes and partial failures in what he called “movement his- sick. In August of 2014 he came back from tory,” primarily about the past struggles as the PBS film was taking shape, Jim was- of working people. Besides the History ing which he gave the keynote speech for Workshop and his teaching at UMass and thea week Cork in MotherIreland Jones– a family Festival vacation1 dur- ing from maladies that pointed tragically walking tours, television (notably as re- to leukemia. Complications from a –partially suffer searchat Harvard, coordinator he was able for to the describe seven-part films, successful bone marrow transplant in No- vember kept him going in and out of the - hospital for over a year and a half. Even vice“Great consulting. Depression” That documentary was a partial shown list. when he was at home he had to make fre- Theby PBS book in ended1993), onand a Nationalhopeful note, Park withSer Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social quent hospital trips for testing and for Movements (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). transfusions. His public appearances were - chapters on the Pittston Strike and the rank-and-file ferment thatTaking led History to new to Heart gave a third- few and iffy. One that he particularly cher personreform-minded account leadershipof how memories to the national of the 1886 AFL-CIO. Haymarket trag- andished attending was coming the LAWCHAto the Organization luncheon where of American he received Historians a life- edy, and Onethe eight-hour chapter of movement that formed its background, timeconvention achievement in Providence award. Another for a few was hours, to travel seeing to Washington old friends

- andhad abroad.been kept I think alive already over the in generations, Jim’s mind was with the ebbs idea and of telling flows identDC for Rich a talk Trumka on labor shared history the at stage. the AFL-CIO headquarters and thethat story reflected of Haymarket the changing himself, fortunes which of radicalhe did inmovements his 2006 bookhere a follow-up question period in which he and now AFL-CIO pres Death in the Haymarket - week before he died, he asked me to look something up for an scious of trying to write a coherent, engaging story for a broad article heHis hoped mind to kept write going for West through Virginia it all. History On Monday on the ofexpe the- public. What struck me as (Pantheon we talked Books). about it He and was I read very drafts con was his willingness to keep polishing, to make the story as ac- he didn’t think he had the strength to keep struggling against cessible as it could be. In fact, more than any of his earlier writ- rience of writing the mine wars book. On Tuesday, he said that ing, this book drew mainstream reviewers and readers. his illness. (But he still called our mutual friend Phil Chassler The year after that book that night to give advice on a Labor Studies class Phil was to was published, he escaped from whichteach.) he On was Wednesday, for me also. we saidThursday goodbye, was me for throughfamily, and tears at andthe the now-shrinking College of endhim of with that a afternoon, firm handshake Thursday, and theJune words, 23, he “Mypassed best away. friend,” He did what he could to make a better world, not only for untold to UMass Boston’s History De- millions whom he knew only as part of humanity, but for many Public and Community Service hundreds of us who were fortunate to know him as the gentle, in this new setting, true to his generous soul that he was. abidingpartment. interests, His specific was to mission create and direct a master’s program in public history. He brought all his experiences to bear in setting up - ishing two years after his 2014 ___ retirement.the program, which is still flour He had one more book “The Mine Wars,” based on Jim Green’s 1. https://motherjonescork.com/ in him, inspired by his connec- book, The Devil is Here in These Hills, first aired on January 26, 2016.

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expressed interest. The volume is titled: Intersections and Di- Tcultivate linkages between LAWCHA and other labor his- vergences: US and Australian Labor in Comparative Perspec- toryhe organizations Global Affairs around Committee the world was andestablished to publicize in 2013 schol to- tive. Contributors include: from the US, Bob Cherny, Jim Bar- arly undertakings, international activism, and labor history research resources transnationally. We have numbers of members from other outside the US, and at our New York con- Diannerett, Tom Hall, Goyens, Ben Huf,Jeffrey Jennie Johnson, Jeppesen, and Shel Marjorie Stromquist; Jerrard, from Di- Australia, Nikki Balnave, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, (46 scholars from 13 countries). The committee is co-chaired - byference past LAWCHAin 2013 we president, had significant Shel Stromquist international and formerparticipation board ane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Angie Ng, Patrick O’Leary, Greg members Joan Sangster and Brian Kelly. Patmore,In Scott February Stephenson, 2016 andthe LAWCHANathan Wise; executive from New commit Zea- Last year, LAWCHA co-sponsored and helped orga- teeland, accepted Peter Clayworth; an invitation and from from Marcel Britain, van Robin der Archer. Linden to join nize a joint conference with the Australian Association for the Study of Labour History (AASLH) on “Australian-U.S. Com- 2015, to promote collaborative research, data collection and parative and Transnational Labour History.” The conference exchangethe Global of Labour ideas internationallyHistory Network on (GLHN), the history founded of work in June and was held in Sydney on January 7-8, 2015 and brought together labor historians from Australia, the US, Britain and New Zea- rural and industrial, organized and unorganized. The network land for two very lively days of presentations (25 papers) envisionsworkers broadly collaborative defined—paid projects and transnationalunpaid, free and conferenc unfree,- es as part of its program. For more information, see: Shel Stromquist (University of Iowa) are coediting a volume ofand essays discussion. from the Greg conference, Patmore now (University fully revised of Sydney) and ready and LAWCHA.org/wordpress/2016/03/02/lawcha-joins-the- for submission to one of several university presses that have global-labour-history-network

LAWCHA’s Contingent Faculty and Contingent Labor Blog

Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College

AWCHA’s recently launched blog on contingent faculty Land contingent labor is the latest step in the organiza- - tion’s efforts to confront declining labor conditions in higher ham-Bornstein,Steve Beda, Eric NaomiFure-Slocum Williams, (convener), James Young, Claire andGoldstene, Jennie education. The blog offers an opportunity for labor histori- Woodard.Trevor Griffey, Joseph Hower, Ruth Needleman, Linda Up ans to share updates, scholarship, opinions, questions, links, The ad hoc committee’s proposals, reviewed by LAW- and strategies. The immediate problems that contingent fac- ulty face will be a main focus for this blog, but we hope to underway in the organization. LAWCHA leaders have long engage broader questions about the growing presence of ad- CHA leaders and members, reaffirm many practices already juncts in higher education. Adjuncts and contingent faculty from students and activists, to well-established scholars and at four- and two-year institutions now constitute up to sev- theirencouraged more precariously-placed widespread involvement colleagues. in the But organization— attention to enty percent of the academy. We also expect that blog con- membership dues rates, conference program organizing (e.g. tributors will begin connecting the history of contingent fac- aiming to include contingent faculty in more panels, includ- ulty in academia to the larger histories of precarious labor. ing teaching-focused sessions), and travel funds could help Work on these issues began a year ago, when LAW- - CHA president Nancy MacLean helped to organize an ad hoc ommendations urge LAWCHA both to confront arguments committee. That group was asked to look at how LAWCHA to include more contingent faculty in LAWCHA. Other rec might make the organization and its events more welcoming a more just academic workplace, including a strong endorse- for contingent faculty. The committee also began thinking mentthat precarity of collective is inevitable bargaining and for to contingent join others faculty. in fighting for The committee looks forward to hearing from LAW- CHA members and supporters, especially other adjuncts and aimabout to waysbecome that a model LAWCHA—as for other an professional organization organizations, of scholars contingent faculty. If you have suggestions or would like to alland of activistswhich confront concerned the effects about of working colleges’ conditions—might and universities’ be involved, please contact Eric Fure-Slocum (furesloc@sto- reliance on precarious labor. Members of the group include laf.edu).

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This list is categorized at laborhistorylinks.org/booklist.html. If we have neglected to list a book, please let us know. Thanks to the Taft History Prize Committee for contributing to this list.

Byrd, Travis Sutton. Unraveled: Labor Strife and Carolina Folk 2015 during the Marion Textile Strikes of 1929. University Tennes- Alexander, Benjamin F. Coxey’s Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Carter,see Heath Press, W. 2015. Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Age Social Christianity in Chicago

Aronowitz,. Johns Stanley. Hopkins The DeathUniversity and LifePress, of American2015. Labor: . 1 edition. Oxford University Toward a New Workers’ Movement Chung,Press, Sue 2015. Fawn. Chinese in the Woods: Logging and Lumbering 2015. in the American West . Reprint edition. Verso, Banks, Miranda J. The Writers: A History of American Screenwrit- Cohen, Andrew Wender. Contraband:. University ofSmuggling Illinois Press, and the 2015. Birth of ers and Their Guild the American Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. Corbin, David. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Barry, Bill. Closing Up The. Rutgers Open Shop: University A Guide Press, to Internal 2015. Organiz- ing Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition. West

Bender, .Daniel Independent E., and PublishingJana K. Lipman, Platform, eds. Making2015. the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism Dearinger,Virginia Ryan. University The Filth Press, of Progress: 2015. Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West. Univer- Arizona’s Crusading. NYU Seven-Term Press, 2015. Governor Berman, David R. George Hunt: sity of California Press, 2015. Transnational Berthier, René.. University Social-Democracy of Arizona and Press, Anarchism 2015. in the Interna- Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and tional Workers’ Association, 1864-1877 Dongen,Networks Luc van, S. Roulin, and G. Scott-Smith, eds.

Birk, Megan. Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement. Merlin Press, in the 2015. Rural Duffy, Mignon,. AmyPalgrave Armenia, Macmillan, and Clare 2015. L. Stacey, eds. Caring on Midwest the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work Boyd, William.. University The Slain Wood:of Illinois Papermaking Press, 2015. and Its Environ- mental Consequences in the American South. Johns Hopkins Epp-Koop,. RutgersStefan. We’re University Going Press, to Run 2015. This City: Winnipeg’s Politi- cal Left after the General Strike 2015. University Press, 2015. Radicals in America: The . University of Manitoba Press, U.S. Left since the Second World War. Cambridge University Estes, Steve. Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the Brick, Howard, and Christopher Phelps. South after the Civil Rights Movement. University of North

Press, 2015. Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses. Reprint edition. University of Mis- Feagin,Carolina Joe R. Press,How Blacks 2015. Built America: Labor, Culture, Freedom, Bryant,souri, Earle 2015. V., ed. Byline, and Democracy. Routledge, 2015. Bulik, Mark. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of Ameri- The Hero’s Fight: African Americans ca’s First Labor War in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State Fernández-Kelly, Patricia. Burk, Robert F. Marvin Miller,. Fordham Baseball University Revolutionary Press, 2015.. University . Princeton Fischer,University John Ryan. Press, Cattle 2015. Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i. The University of of Illinois Press, 2015.Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820. University of Chicago Burnard, Trevor. Planters, Fones-Wolf,North Carolina Elizabeth Press, and 2015.Ken Fones-Wolf. Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Bussel, Robert. Press, 2015.Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gib- Operation Dixie bons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship. Univer- Ford, Martin. Rise of. theUniversity Robots: ofTechnology Illinois Press, and the2015. Threat of a Jobless Future. Books, 2015. sity of Illinois Press, 2015.

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Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Karibo, Holly M. Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor. Detroit-Windsor Borderland. The University of North Caro- Formisano, Ronald P.

Frank,Johns Miriam. Hopkins Out inUniversity the Union: Press, A Labor 2015. History of Queer Ameri- Kersten,lina Press,Andrew 2015. Edmund, and Clarence Lang. Reframing Ran- ca dolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph Fraser, .Steve. Temple The University Age of Acquiescence: Press, 2015. The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. Little, King, Shannon.. New Whose York Harlem University Is This, Press, Anyway?: 2015. Community Poli- Brown and Company, 2015. tics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era. NYU Fudge, Judy, and Eric Tucker. Labour Before the Law: The Regu- lation of Workers’ Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948. Kramer,Press, Jacob. 2015. The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance University ofThe Toronto Teacher Press. Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession. Anchor, 2015. Labrador, Roderick N. Building. Temple Filipino University Hawai’i Press,. University 2015. of Il- Goldstein, Dana. Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics. Liveright, 2015. Lansing,linois Michael Press, 2015.J. Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League Golway, Terry. in North American Politics The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom Lause, Mark A. Free Labor: The. CivilUniversity War and of Chicagothe Making Press, of an 2015. Green,2015. James. American Working Class . Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. Haberland, Michelle. Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 Leon, Cedric de. The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democ- 2015. racy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago . University of Georgia Press, Hart, Tanya. Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation Looker, Benjamin. A Nation of Neighborhoods:. ILR Press, Imagining 2015. Cities, of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930 Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America. University 2015. . NYU Press, Haviland, Sara Rzeszutek. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love Loomis,of Chicago Erik. Empire Press, of 2015. Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. University Northwest Forests

Manuel, Jeffrey T. Taconite. Cambridge Dreams: University The Struggle Press, to Sustain 2015. Mining Heron,Press Craig. of Kentucky, Lunch-Bucket 2015. Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. on ’s Iron Range, 1915-2000. University of Minne- Between the Lines, 2015.

Hill, Joe, and Tom Morello. The Letters of Joe Hill: Centenary Edi- Martin,sota Lori Press, Latrice, 2015. Hayward Derrick Horton, and Teresa A. tion Booker. Lessons from the Black Working Class: Foreshadowing Books, 2015. America’s Economic Health . Edited by Philip S. Foner and Alexis Buss. Haymarket Hogler, Raymond L. The End of American Labor Unions: The Right- Martin, Lou. Smokestacks in the .Hills: Praeger, Rural-Industrial 2015. Workers in to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining. West Virginia

The War. University on Alcohol: of Illinois Prohibition Press, and 2015. the Rise of the Horton,Praeger, Kristina. 2015. Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Tex- American State. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. tile Workers’ Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. McFarland, McGirr, Lisa. 2015. Mirola, William A. Redeeming Time : Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912, University of Illinois Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry. Howard, Philip A. Press, 2015.Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution Jauhar,Louisiana Sandeep. State Doctored: University The DisillusionmentPress, 2015. of an American Mullen, Bill V. Physician Capitalist. Temple Family University Values: Press, Gender, 2015. Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing Jr, Lionel Kimble.. Farrar, A New Straus Deal andfor Bronzeville: Giroux, 2015. Housing, Employ- Myers,2015. Polly Reed. ment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955. Southern . University of Nebraska Press, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement. Beacon Jr, QuentinIllinois R. University Skrabec. BenevolentPress, 2015. Barons: American Worker-Cen- Nadasen, Premilla. tered Industrialists, 1850-1910. McFarland, 2015. Press, 2015.

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Ness, Immanuel. Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Schiller, Reuel. Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Working Class Postwar Liberalism

Newell, Margaret Ellen.. Pluto Brethren Press, 2015. by Nature: New England Indians, Schwartz, Harvey. Building. Cambridge the Golden University Gate Bridge: Press, A Workers’ 2015. Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Cornell Uni- Oral History

Shirley, Neal, and. Seattle:Saralee UniversityStafford. Dixie of Washington Be Damned: Press, 300 Years 2015. of versity Press, 2015.Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Insurrection in the American South Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age. Columbia University O’Donnell, Edward T. Snyder, Terri L. The Power to Die: Slavery. AK and Press, Suicide 2015. in British North America Press, 2015. Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism Sparrow, James T., William. University J. Novak, of Chicago and Stephen Press, 2015. W. Sawyer, eds. Olmsted,2015. Kathryn S. Boundaries of the State in US History. University of Chicago . The New Press, Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made Stepenoff,Press, Bonnie.2015. Working the Mississippi: Two Centuries of Life Pacyga, Dominic A. on the River. University of Missouri, 2015. The Crusades. University of Cesar Chavez: of Chicago A Biography Press, 2015.. Re- Strickland, Jeff. Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Pawel, Miriam. Supremacy in Civil War–Era Charleston print edition.Reform Bloomsbury or Repression: Press, Organizing2015. America’s Anti- Florida, 2015. Union Movement . University Press of Pearson, Chad. Sublette, Ned, and Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast: Carlo Tresca:. University Portrait of ofPennsylvania a Rebel Press, 2015. - A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago Review lan, 2015. Pernicone, N. . Palgrave Macmil Making Waves: Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, Press, 2015. The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Con- 1865-2000. University of Michigan Regional, 2015. gress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989. University of Illinois Peters, Scott M. Surdam, David George. Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired “Stagolee,” “John Henry,” and Other Traditional Thompson,Press, 2015. Michael D. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor Polenberg,American Richard. Folk Songs and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. University of

Quigley, Fran. If We Can Win. Cornell Here: UniversityThe New Front Press, Lines 2015. of the Labor Movement Torget,South Andrew Carolina J. Seeds Press, of Empire:2015. Cotton, Slavery, and the Trans- formation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. The Univer- Reddy, Sujani K. Nursing. ILR and Press, Empire: 2015. Gendered Labor and Migra- tion from India to the United States. The University of North sity of NorthElizabeth Carolina Gurley Press, Flynn: 2015. Modern American Revolu- tionary Remes,Carolina Jacob Press,A. C. Disaster 2015. Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Vapnek, Lara. Power in Era Weber, John.. AnnotatedFrom South edition. Texas to Westview the Nation: Press, The 2015.Exploitation of 2015. Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century. The University of . University of Illinois Press, On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South Weise,North Julie Carolina M. Corazón Press, de 2015.Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since Ribas, Vanesa. 1910 . University ofVoices California of the Press, Undocumented 2015. . 2015. . Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Rosenfeld, Val, and Flor Fortunati. Whelehan, Dr Niall. The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Rosenow,Design Michael Publishing, K. Death 2015. and Dying in the Working Class, 1865- Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867-1900. Cambridge 1920 Ross, Jack. The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History. . University of Illinois Press, 2015. Wolff,University Joshua D. Press, Western 2015. Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 Ross, Stephanie, Larry Savage, Errol Black, and Jim Silver, eds. 2015. Potomac Books, 2015. . Cambridge University Press, Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Move- Woloch, Nancy. A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women ment in Canada Workers, 1890s-1990s Saval, Nikil. Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace. Reprint . 3rd ed. Fernwood Publishing, 2015. Wong, Edlie. Racial Reconstruction:. Princeton Black University Inclusion, Press, Chinese 2015. Exclu- edition. Anchor, 2015. sion, and the Fictions of Citizenship Schermerhorn, Calvin. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of Zimmer, Kenyon. Immigrants against the. NYU State: Press, Yiddish 2015. and Italian American Capitalism, 1815–1860 Anarchism in America 2015. . Yale University Press, . University of Illinois Press, 2015. Newsletter - Fall, 2016 14

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