Bread and Roses

Bruce Watson. Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-303735-4.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, Department of Social Sciences, Purdue University North CentralPublished by [mailto]H-NewEngland@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

From Peasants to Labourers

Vadim Kukushkin. From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi + 283 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-3267-0.

Reviewed for H-Migration by Krystyna K. Cap, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Published by [mailto]H-Migration@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

Linksintellektuelle in Argentinien und Brasilien

Hollensteiner, Stephan: Aufstieg und Randlage. Linksintellektuelle, demokratische Wende und Politik in Argentinien und Brasilien (= Veröffentlichungen des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts Preußischer Kulturbesitz 104). Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3-86527-239-3; 462 S.; EUR 48,00.

Rezensiert für geschichte.transnational und H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Stephan Scheuzger, Institut für Geschichte, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
E-Mail: [mailto]scheuzger@history.gess.ethz.ch[/mailto]

The Fabric of Gender

Helen Harden Chenut. The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. vii + 448 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index.$60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-02520-9.

Reviewed for H-Women by Lela Felter-Kerley, Department of History, University of South Florida
Published by [mailto]H-Women@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (February, 2008)

Working-Class (Sexual) Politics in France's Third Republic

The Right and Labor

The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination February 16-17, 2009 University of California, Santa Barbara

The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites paper proposals for a January 16-17, 2009 conference: "The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination."

Taxi!

Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-8554-9.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Anne E. Leonard, Library, New York City College of Technology

Published by [mailto]H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

The Cabbie in the Collective Imagination and on the Streets

Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution

Christine Rider, ed. Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920. Two Volumes. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. 604 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $225.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-33501-3.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Stephen Roberts, Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

Caught in the Machinery

Jamie L. Bronstein. Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-0008-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Bill Luckin, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester

Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

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