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Labor History Contents of Volume 39, 1998 MANAGING EDITOR Daniel J. Leab, Seton Hall University EDITORIAL BOARD Sidney Fine (Chairman), University of Michigan Cletus Daniel, Cornell University Alan Dawley, Trenton State College Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY, Binghamton Leon Fink, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Nancy F. Gabin, Purdue University Sanford M. Jacoby, UCLA Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts Amherst Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia David Montgomery, Yale University Daniel Nelson, University of Akron Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie-Mellon University Robert Zieger, University of Florida Labor History publishes original research in labor history, studies of specific unions and of the impact of labor problems upon ethnic and minority groups, the nature of work and class life, theories of the labor movement, biographical portraits of important labor figures, comparative studies and analyses of foreign labor movements that shed light on American labor developments, and studies of radical groups or of radical history as they relate to American labor history. Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission and books for review, should be addressed to Daniel J. Leab, The Editor, Labor History, Bobst Library, Taminent Library/Wagner Archive, NYU, 70 Washington Square South, NYC, NY 10012, USA. E-mail: [email protected]; Fax: + 1 (212) 741 6790. Please also address all correspondence relating to individual articles to The Editor. Business correspondence, including orders and remittances relating to subscriptions, advertisements and back numbers, should be addressed to the publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. The journal is published four times a year, in February, May, August and November. These four annual issues constitute one volume. ISSN 0023-656X i CARFAX © 1998 Carfax Publishing Ltd on behalf of The Tamiment Institute Number 1 February 1998 Daniel F. Leab. Editorial Note Alex Lichtenstein. Putting Labor’s House in Order: the Transport Workers Union and labor anti-Communism in Miami during the 1940s Anthony Carew. The American Labor Movement in Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA SYMPOSIUM Symposium on Thomas J. Sugrue: The Origins of the Urban Crisis Eric Arnesen. History First: putting urban poverty in perspective Nancy Gabin. Racial Boundaries and Class Designs in the Urban North Jacqueline Fones. The Politics of Poverty: what’s history got to do with it? Fudith Stein. Opening and Closing Doors Foe W. Trotter. Race, Public Policy, and History: the question of priorities Thomas F. Sugrue. Responsibility to the Past, Engagement with the Present BOOK REVIEWS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Number 2 May 1998 Timothy ¥. Minchin. “Color Means Something”: Black Pioneers, White Resistance, and Interracial Unionism in the Southern Textile Industry, 1957-1980 James N. Gregory. Southernizing the American Working Class: Post-war Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation COMMENTARY AND RESPONSE James N. Gregory: Southernizing the American Working Class Grace Elizabeth Hale. A Note on Region, Race, and Vision Alex Lichtenstein. Antiliberalism and the Working-Class Politics of Nostalgia Thomas F. Sugrue. The Incredible Disappearing Southerner? James N. Gregory. Response SYMPOSIUM Symposium on Tera Hunter: To ’fJoy My Freedom Dana Frank. The Labor Historian’s New Clothes Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Protest, Resistance, and Survival in the Jim Crow South Sharon Harley. Leisure and Labor: Subversive at All Levels Lawrence W. Levine. Imagining Freedom David Roediger. To *foy My Freedom: An Enthusiasm Tera Hunter. Response NOTES AND DOCUMENTS eter Meyer Filardo. ‘The Counterattack Research Files on American Communism, Tamiment Institute Library, New York University Richard Steven Street. The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike: A New Ending MEDIA REVIEW Wonder of the World, written, produced and directed by Lawrence Budner. Reviewed by Richard A. Greenwald ESSAY REVIEW Nick Salvatore. A Pro Bono Defense BOOK REVIEWS COMMUNICATION Farley Grubb. Labor, Markets, and Opportunity: Indentured Servitude in Early America, a Rejoinder to Salinger NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Number 3 August 1998 Matthew E. Mason. “The Hands Here are Disposed to be Turbulent”: Unrest Among the Irish Trackmen of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1829-1851 GilbertF . Gall. “Rights Which Have Meaning”: Reconceiving Labor Liberty in the 1940s Randall L. Patton. Textile Organizing in a Sunbelt South Community: Northwest Georgia’s Carpet Industry in the Early 1960s SYMPOSIUM Michael Denning and the “Laboring” of American Culture: A Symposium Elizabeth Faue. “Class and Cultural Citizenship” Kathleen A. Brown. The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture Lawrence B. Glickman. The Laboring of History and Culture Nancy Quam-Wickham. In Search of Labor’s Culture Peter Rachieff. Understanding Legacies, Understanding Possibilities Michael Denning. The Future of the Cultural Front BOOK REVIEWS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Number 4 November 1998 R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. From Industrial Police to Workmen’s Compensation: Public Policy and Industrial Accidents in New York, 1880-1910 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf & Ken Fones-Wolf. Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930-42 Anne Dondertman & Sean Purdy. The Robert S. Kenny Collection on Communism and Radicalism at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto SYMPOSIUM Symposium on Eileen Boris: Home to Work Ava Baron. Introduction Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Industrial Homework: A Critical Lens on Work, Motherhood, and the State Sybil Lipschultz. Law, Feminism and the State: New Directions for Labor History Daniel R. Ernst. Homework and the Police Power from Jacobs to Adkins Judith G. Coffin. “Homework in Comparative Perspective” Eileen L. McDonagh. Liberalism at Home and in the Market: New Questions about Labor and Women’s Rights Eileen Boris. Back to the Future? eter Meyer Filardo. Labor History Bibliography, 1997 BOOK REVIEWS INDEX