Reviews:
- Michele Fazio on Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison, by Michelle Tokarczk
- Christie Launius on A Carpenter’s Daughter: A Working-Class Woman in Higher Education, by Renny Christopher
- Lou Martin on On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry, by Liesl Orenic
Book Notes:
- The Long River Home: A Novel (Bottom Dog Press), Larry Smith
- Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Monthly Review Press), Steve Early
- Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (U. of Chicago), Benjamin Page & Lawrence Jacobs
- Monongahela Dusk: a novel (Autumn House Press), John Hoerr
- Manufacturing a Better Future for America (Alliance for American Manufacturing), edited by Richard McCormick
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Pantheon), Alain de Botton
- Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement (U. of Illinois), Steven Ashby & C.J. Hawking
- Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men & Women in Lenawee County, Michigan (Bottom Dog Press), Jennifer Burd with photographs by Lad Strayer
- Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capital (Palgrave Macmillan), Yvette Taylor
- Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor (U. of Illinois), David Witwer
- Reply to an Eviction Notice: Selected Poems (Bottom Dog Press), Robert Flanagan
- Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (New York University), Andrew Ross
- There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Vintage Books), William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub
- Decent Work, Living Wages, and Government’s Hidden Leverage, edited by Robert Kuttner