Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy?
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon, Guest Editors
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon / Workers and the
“Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction 1
THE COMMON VERSE
Thomas McGrath / Slaughterhouse Music 8
ARTS AND MEDIA
Kathy M. Newman, Joseph Entin, and Patricia Hills / Philip Tipperman:
Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s 11
CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
Diana S. Reddy / Relitigating the New Deal: The Stakes of Current Constitutional
Challenges to the NLRB 24
ARTICLES
Nelson Lichtenstein / Why No Corporatism in the United States? American Versus
German Models of Industrial Relations in the Early Postwar Era 36
Gerd-Rainer Horn / Workers and Catholicism in Postwar Western Europe
and Latin America 53
Eloisa Betti / Fordism’s Underside: Women’s Work in Postwar Italy 69
Stefan Müller / Social Democracy at High Tide: The Humanization of Work in
Postwar West Germany 85
Jan de Graaf / Rethinking Shop-Floor Power in Postwar Europe: Participation
Versus Mobility in East and West 100
Andrew Elrod / Inflation, Wage Policy, and the End of the New Deal Order 115
BOOK REVIEWS
Frederick Corney / No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist
Nestor Makhno by Charlie Allison 132
Aaron Benanav / Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilizations, and
Labor Reforms in Italy by Eloisa Betti 133
David Brundage / The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor
War by Mark Bulik 135
Ryan Pettengill / Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United
States by Charisse Burden-Stelly 137
Zachary Lockman / Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the
Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906 by Lucia Carminati 140
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer / Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in
the American Century by Brent Cebul 141
Kenyon Zimmer / Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American
Socialism by Lorenzo Costaguta 143
Jana K. Lipman / The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama
Canal by Joan Flores-Villalobos 145
Timothy J. Lombardo / Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the
Making of a White Working Class by Max Fraser 147
Deborah Simonton / Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century
London by Laura Gowing 149
Jim Phillips / Futures of Socialism: “Modernisation,” the Labour Party, and the British
Left, 1973–1997 by Colm Murphy 151
Jennifer Delton / Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem,
1900–1930 by Daniel Robert 153
William Hal Gorby / The Ruined Anthracite: Historical Trauma in Coal-Mining
Communities by Paul A. Shackel 155
Dallas Augustine / Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
by Jarrod Shanahan 15