New Books

Book Reviews:

Erik Gellman on Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 by Clarence Lang

Cherie Rankin on Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music by Pamela Fox

Corey Andrews on two books by William T. Vollmann, Imperial and Imperial: Photographs

Book Notes:

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, Candacy A. Taylor

In and Out of the Working Class, Michael D. Yates

The Insecure American: How We Got Here & What We Should Do About It edited by Hugh Gusterson & Catherine Besteman

Agitate! Educate! Organize!  American Labor Posters, Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher

Riders on the Storm: A Novel, Susan Streeter Carpenter

Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation, Ellen Bravo

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, Victor Narro

Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940, Donald W. Rogers

The Transformation of Work in the New Economy: Sociological Readings, edited by Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Perrucci

California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative, Jan Goggans

For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, John Curl

Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU, Harvey Swartz

On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York, James T. Fisher

Global Connections and Local Receptions: New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States, edited by Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner

A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement, Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds

The Lean Years:  A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933, and The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941, Irving Bernstein

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest, Graphic History Collective and the Centre for Labor Studies at Simon Fraser University

Book Reviews and Notes from Fall 2009