Book Reviews: By subject: Labor and Employment History
- The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
- by John Witt
- reviewed by Mark Aldrich on June 11, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages
- by Christopher Dyer
- reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions
- by Emily J. Teipe
- reviewed by Joanna Short on December 13, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States
- by Jonathan A. Glickstein
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on December 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
- by John Barnard
- reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on August 16, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
- by Paul A.C. Koistinen
- reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Beyond Labor's Veil
- by Robert E. Weir
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 6, 1996
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
- by Diane J. Macunovich
- reviewed by Randall J. Olsen on May 23, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
- by Paul A. Moreno
- reviewed by Vernon M. Briggs Jr. on May 14, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940
- by Howell John Harris
- reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on October 12, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
- by Robert McIntosh
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 11, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Bristol Historical Resource CD
- by Peter Wardley (editor)
- reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- British Trade Unions since 1933
- by Chris Wrigley
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on March 3, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956
- by Jason Scott Smith
- reviewed by Price V. Fishback on July 16, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
- by Nahum Karlinsky
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
- by David Brian Robertson
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
- by Marjatta Rahikainen
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on November 11, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
- by Georg Leidenberger
- reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Child Labor: An American History
- by Hugh D. Hindman
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
- by Jerome P. Bjelopera
- reviewed by Nikki Mandell on December 5, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
- by Robert J. Steinfeld
- reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
- by Linda Carlson
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
- by Julie Novkov
- reviewed by David Bernstein on June 11, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
- by Nikki Mandell
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation
- by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on October 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900
- by Patrick J. Kelly
- reviewed by Dora L. Costa on January 21, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
- by Clete Daniel
- reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
- by Edward C. Lorenz
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on March 14, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
- by Mark Tebeau
- reviewed by Dalit Baranoff on June 17, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
- by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
- by Cathy Matson (editor)
- reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
- by Michael Huberman
- reviewed by Susan Wolcott on December 1, 1997
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
- by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
- reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond
- by Barry Eichengreen
- reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on May 23, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
- by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht
- reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990
- by Daniel Nelson
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
- by Janet Greenlees
- reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
- by Kathleen M. Barry
- reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II
- by Timothy J. Minchin
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on August 10, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
- by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
- reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
- For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
- by Jennifer Klein
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution
- by John Bezis-Selfa
- reviewed by Michael V. Kennedy on May 25, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama
- by John A. Salmond
- reviewed by Clete Daniel on July 25, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
- by Ken Fones-Wolf
- reviewed by Janet Irons on October 12, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Drew Keeling on June 13, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Government and the American Economy: A New History
- by Price Fishback et al (editor)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on October 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
- by Craig Phelan
- reviewed by Robert E. Weir on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Great Lobster War
- by Ron Formisano
- reviewed by Debbie Mullin on March 25, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
- by Melvyn Dubofsky
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
- by Christopher Sellers
- reviewed by Mark Aldrich on March 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past
- by Dora L. Costa (editor)
- reviewed by John E. Murray on January 5, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
- by Timothy Minchin
- reviewed by Thomas Lyons on June 18, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
- by Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles
- reviewed by Hamish James on August 30, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
- by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan (editors)
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 2, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Two: Work and Welfare
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on August 4, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
- by Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig and Jack W. Wilson
- reviewed by Price Fishback on October 10, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan
- by Kathleen Thelen
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on November 23, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700
- by Lien Bich Luu
- reviewed by Patrick Wallis on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Immigration and American Unionism
- by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
- reviewed by Joseph D. Reid Jr. on December 3, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
- In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
- by Dario Gaggio
- reviewed by Hugo Ceron-Anaya on October 6, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- by Alice Kessler-Harris
- reviewed by Joyce P. Jacobsen on June 26, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
- by Susan Zeiger
- reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 4, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
- by Steven High
- reviewed by Robert M. Schwab on September 25, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
- by David A. Wolff
- reviewed by Gerald Ronning on August 17, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 7, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939
- by Larry G. Gerber
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on February 17, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
- by Masayo Umezawa Duus
- reviewed by Edward D. Beechert on February 21, 2000
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Kellogg's Six-Hour Day
- by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 11, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers
- by Jean R. Renshaw
- reviewed by Christienne L. Hinz on September 19, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
- by Karin L. Zipf
- reviewed by T. Stephen Whitman on September 30, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
- by Jonathan Cutler
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on April 22, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America
- by Daniel Jacoby
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 16, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Labour, Land and Capital: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956
- by Gareth Austin
- reviewed by Nathan Nunn on August 21, 2006
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840
- by Marta Cotterell Raffel
- reviewed by Marla R. Miller on July 16, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A Living Wage
- by Lawrence B. Glickman
- reviewed by Richard Schneirov on July 3, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
- by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
- reviewed by Warren C. Whatley on October 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Manpower in Economic Growth: The American Record since 1800
- by Stanley Lebergott
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 27, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
- by Madeleine Zelin
- reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
- by Brinley Thomas
- reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
- by James B. Jacobs
- reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 19, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
- by Robert F. Burk
- reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
- by Marla R. Miller
- reviewed by Gloria L. Main on May 11, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
- by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
- reviewed by Dan Bogart on June 3, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
- by Matthew J. Mancini
- reviewed by Garland Brinkley on October 29, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
- by David E. Bernstein
- reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on April 11, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
- by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Origins of the Modern Career
- by David Mitch, John Brown and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 13, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805
- by Leonard N. Rosenband
- reviewed by Michael Huberman on July 19, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Pattern and Repertoire in History
- by Bertrand M. Roehner and Tony Syme
- reviewed by John Nye on January 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
- by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis
- reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on January 20, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
- by Paul R. Gregory
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
- by Steven Leiken
- reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on March 30, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
- by Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
- reviewed by Mark Aldrich on February 6, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
- by Susan M. Sterett
- reviewed by Joanna Short on December 9, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
- by Pamela Walker Laird
- reviewed by Laura J. Owen on July 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46
- by Andrew Edmund Kersten
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 19, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
- by Andrew Wender Cohen
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
- by Geoffrey Channon
- reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Reconstruction in the Cane Field: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes 1862-1880
- by John C. Rodrigue
- reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer on October 26, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
- by Gunther Peck
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on May 23, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
- by Garth L. Magnum and R. Scott McNabb
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on March 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
- by Nicola Verdon
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960
- by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Soland and Christina Benninghaus
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on May 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
- by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
- reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Slavery and American Economic Development
- by Gavin Wright
- reviewed by Jeremy Atack on May 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Stalin's Terror Revisited
- by Melanie Ilic (editor)
- reviewed by Vincent Barnett on January 4, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
- by Nelson Lichtenstein
- reviewed by Walter Licht on September 13, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914
- by Gerald Friedman
- reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on February 20, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
- by Arwen Mohun
- reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
- by Lisa M. Fine
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 12, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
- by Stephen H. Norwood
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
- by Roy Church and Quentin Outram
- reviewed by Judith Wale on August 23, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003
- by Henry D. Fetter
- reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on May 5, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century England
- by Bernard Cronin
- reviewed by Michael Sanderson on July 19, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950
- by Gregory J. Downey
- reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on November 4, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
- by Stanley L. Engerman (editor)
- reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 10, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco
- by David F. Selvin
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on March 18, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South
- by Janet Irons
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 30, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Time and Work in England 1750-1830
- by Hans-Joachim Voth
- reviewed by Jane Humphries on February 4, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000
- by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
- reviewed by Sharon Otoo on August 8, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
- by Ileen A. DeVault
- reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on March 8, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement
- by Richard Magat
- reviewed by Milton Goldin on December 16, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
- by Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City
- by Russell L. Johnson
- reviewed by Brandon Dupont on February 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
- by Marcel van der Linden
- reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Where Is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
- by William F. Hartford
- reviewed by Debbie Mullin on April 10, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Who's In Charge? Workers and Managers in the United States
- by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein
- reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein on March 6, 1996
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
- by S. J. Kleinberg
- reviewed by Carolyn M. Moehling on June 7, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
- by Ivy Pinchbeck
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on February 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
- by Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Susan B. Carter on July 1, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850
- by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K. D. M. Snell (editors)
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on March 2, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
- World War II and the Scramble for Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1939-1948
- by David Johnson
- reviewed by Laird Jones on December 30, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
- by Elizabeth Faue
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on October 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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