Labor History, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2012)

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Labor History, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2012)

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Original Articles

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Chicago and the Little Steel strike
Michael Dennis
Pages: 167-204
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Political congruence: a conceptual framework and historical case study
Richard Croucher & Martin Upchurch
Pages: 205-223
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Blue collars striking the Red Flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946–2007
Bram Wauters
Pages: 225-243
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: the political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957
Jerònia Pons Pons & Margarita Vilar Rodríguez
Pages: 245-267
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Labor History symposium: Webster, Lambert and Bezuidenhout, Grounding globalization: labour in the age of insecurity

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Editorial note
Craig Phelan
Page: 269
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Neoliberalism not globalization: why we need to build the Left
Dan Clawson
Pages: 269-274
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Neo-liberal globalisation, the manufacturing of insecurity and the power of labour
Andreas Bieler
Pages: 274-279
Published online: 29 May 2012
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On the transparency and opacity of the economic landscape
Andrew Herod
Pages: 279-284
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Grounding thinking utopia
Melisa Serrano & Edlira Xhafa
Pages: 284-291
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Global labour studies: the crises and an emerging research agenda
Rob Lambert, Edward Webster & Andries Bezuidenhout
Pages: 291-298
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Original Articles

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Reevaluating US company paternalism from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Victor G Devinatz
Pages: 299-304
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Freedom bound: law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580–1865, by Christopher Tomlins
Kit Candlin
Pages: 305-306
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Beyond the fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the struggle for justice in the 21st century, by Randy Shaw
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Pages: 307-308
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Restoring the power of unions: it takes a movement, by Julius Getman
Bruce Nissen
Pages: 309-310
Published online: 29 May 2012
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There's always work at the post office: African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality, by Philip F. Rubio
Paul R.D. Lawrie
Pages: 310-312
Published online: 29 May 2012
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The temp economy: from Kelly Girls to Permatemps in postwar America, by Erin Hatton
Harris Freeman
Pages: 312-314
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Sweatshops at sea: merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present, by Leon Fink
Clifford B. Donn
Pages: 314-316
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Constructing affirmative action: the struggle for equal employment opportunity, by David Hamilton Golland
Jennifer Delton
Pages: 316-317
Published online: 29 May 2012
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The deepest wounds: a labor and environmental history of sugar in northeast Brazil, by Thomas D. Rogers
Eve E. Buckley
Pages: 318-319
Published online: 29 May 2012
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The civil wars in US labor: birth of a new workers’ movement or death throes of the old?, by Steve Early
Julius G. Getman
Pages: 319-321
Published online: 29 May 2012
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The civil wars in US labor: birth of a new workers’ movement or death throes of the old?, by Steve Early
Raquel Rego
Pages: 321-323
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Letter to the Editor

Letter
Letter to the Editor
Richard Schneirov
Pages: 325-326
Published online: 29 May 2012
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Miscellany

Response to Richard Schneirov
Timothy Messer-Kruse
Pages: 327-328
Published online: 29 May 2012
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