International Labor and Working-Class History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 73, month April, 2008

Introduction: Labor in a Changing China pp. 1-6

Renqiu Yu

Hidden Forms of Bargaining on China's Shop Floor pp. 7-23

Xiaodan Zhang

Lean Production and Labor Controls in the Chinese Automobile Industry in An Age of Globalization1 pp. 24-44

Lu Zhang

The Changes of Chinese Labor Policy and Labor Legislation in the Context of Market Transition pp. 45-64

Kinglun Ngok

Ziyou (Freedom)1, Occupational Choice, and Labor: Bangbang in Chongqing, People's Republic of China2 pp. 65-84

Xia Zhang

Local Strategies of Labor Control: A Case Study of Three Electronics Factories in China pp. 85-103

Hong Xue

Introduction pp. 104-105

Kate Brown

Solidarność in Łódź: An Interview with Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski pp. 106-136

Christopher Phelps

Kneeling at the Altar of (Il)-Liberalism: The Politics of Ideas, Job Loss, and Union Weakness in East Central Europe pp. 137-151

Pieter Vanhuysse

Volume 72, month October, 2007

Introduction: New Studies/New Organizations; Labor Organization in Latin America and Beyond pp. 2-17

Joel Stillerman and Peter Winn

Forging New Labor Activism in Global Commodity Chains in Latin America pp. 18-41

Mark Anner

Brazil's Telecom Unions Confront the Future: Privatization, Technological Change, and Globalization1 pp. 42-62

Sonia M.K. Guimarães

Alternative Forms of Working-Class Organization and the Mobilization of Informal-Sector Workers in Brazil in the Era of Neoliberalism pp. 63-89

Salvador A.M. Sandoval

Globalization, Labor, and Violence in Colombia's Banana Zone pp. 90-115

Aviva Chomsky

The Crisis of Labor Politics in Latin America: Parties and Labor Movements during the Transition to Neoliberalism pp. 116-133

Kenneth M. Roberts

What Has Happened to Organized Labor in Southern Africa?1 pp. 134-160

M. Anne Pitcher

Organized Labor's Global Problems and Local Responses pp. 161-163

Paul W. Drake

Globalization and Labor: Reflections on Contemporary Latin America pp. 164-172

Eric Hershberg

Tea and Sympathy: A Study of Diversity among Women Activists in the National Federation of Women Workers in Coventry, England, 1907–14 pp. 173-191

Cathy Hunt

“If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:” The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964 pp. 192-215

Kim Phillips-Fein

Volume 71, month April, 2007

Introduction: The Class Politics of Privatization: Global Perspectives on the Privatization of Public Workers, Land, and Services pp. 1-7

Jennifer Klein

Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatization in Bolivia: The “New Working Class,” the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services1 pp. 8-28

Susan Spronk

“There is tragedy on both sides of the layoffs:” Privatization and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore pp. 29-49

Jane Berger

Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of “Social Movement Unionism”: A Case Study of Municipal Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa pp. 50-69

Franco Barchiesi

The Two Faces of Petr Arkad'evich: Land and Dispossession in Russia's Southwest, ca. 2000 pp. 70-90

Jessica Allina-Pisano

The Hospital Employees' Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada pp. 91-111

Benjamin Isitt and Melissa Moroz

A Class Approach to Municipal Privatization: The Privatization of New York City's Central Park pp. 112-132

Oliver Cooke

Workforce Responses to the Creeping Privatization of the UK National Health Service1 pp. 133-153

Rebecca Kolins Givan and Stephen Bach

The Politics of Ports: Privatization and the World's Ports pp. 154-161

Colin Davis

“Blame the System, Not the Victim!” Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983–1992 pp. 162-184

Cybèle Locke

Racism in a “Raceless” Society: The Soviet Press and Representations of American Racial Violence at Stalingrad in 1930 pp. 185-203

Meredith Roman

Andrew Sayer, The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 256 pp. $29.95 cloth pp. 204-208

Siobhán McGrath

Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895–1932. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 209 pp. $35.00 cloth pp. 208-210

Julie Hessler

Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xi+341 pp. $23.95 paper; $84.95 cloth pp. 210-212

Anne Pérotin-Dumon

Patrick Frank, Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers’ Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917–1935. Albequerque: University of Mexico Press, 2006. 322 pp. $32.95 cloth pp. 213-214

Oscar Chamosa

Jane E. Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2005. xiii+277 pp. $22.95 paper pp. 214-217

Ann Zulawski

Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaraugua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 272 pp. $74.95 Cloth; 21.95 paper pp. 217-220

Arthur Schmidt

Colin A. Palmer, Eric Williams & The Making of the Modern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 352 pp. $34.95 cloth pp. 220-223

Godfrey Vincent

Nicholas De Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 352 pp. $79.95 Cloth, $22.95 paper pp. 223-225

Matthew Gritter

Volume 70, month October, 2006

Introduction: Globalization and the Latin-American Workplace pp. 1-10

Joel Stillerman and Peter Winn

Is Globalization Good for Workers? Definitions and Evidence from Latin America pp. 11-34

Gerhard Reinecke

Globalization and the Transformation of Work in Rural Brazil: Agribusiness, Rural Labor Unions, and Peasant Mobilization pp. 35-60

Cliff Welch

Lousy Jobs, Invisible Unions: The Mexican Retail Sector in the Age of Globalization pp. 61-85

Chris Tilly and José Luis Álvarez Galván

Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women's Work and Gender Relations at Home and Abroad pp. 86-105

Cecilia Menjívar

A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers' Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart pp. 106-125

Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein

Working for McDonald's, France: Resistance to the Americanization of Work pp. 126-142

Marianne Debouzy

Better than Barraclough? Putting Global Labor History on the Map1 pp. 143-154

Michael Hanagan and Peter Nekola

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town pp. 165-167

Jason Pine

Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: the CPGB 1951–68 pp. 167-169

Kevin Morgan

Imaazje! De verbeelding van Provo 1965–1967 pp. 169-173

Gerd-Rainer Horn

Women and Work Culture: Britain c. 1850–1959 pp. 173-175

Peter Weiler

Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britain pp. 175-178

Oz Frankel

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration pp. 178-183

David Montgomery

CURRENT RESEARCH pp. 184-186

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