Table Of Content

Volume 49 Number 1 February 2008 CONTENTS Defining a ‘living wage’ in America: transformations in union wage theories, 1870-1930 Thomas A. Stapleford British trade unions, the 1975 European Referendum and its legacy Philip B. Whyman Challenging cheap-labour theory: Natal and Transvaal coal miners, ca 1890-1950 Peter Alexander The FEPC and the legacy of the labor-based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s Kevin M. Schultz Symposium Andreas Bieler, The Strugglfeo r a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring Craig Phelan, Editorial note Graham Taylor, The Strugglfeo r a Social Europe: The limits and possibilities of trade union politics in Europe Patrick Pasture, The awakening of the lame duck? Trade unions and the EMU Janine Goetschy, The difficult road to renewed trade union action at the EU level Mark Rupert, Labor and politics in a multi-scalar globalizing capitalism: Bieler and the new neo-Gramscians Andreas Bieler, Trade unions and European integration: Theoretical and empirical considerations Book reviews The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950, by Francille Rusan Wilson. Reviewed by Kevin Boyle Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story ofa n American Hero, by Scott Reynolds Nelson. Reviewed by Craig A. Lockard The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, by Eric L. Goldstein. Reviewed by Jerald Podair Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. Reviewed by Janet Wells Greene Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction, edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin and James Smethurst. Reviewed by Ann Youngblood Mulhearn Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30, by Lawrence M. Lipin. Reviewed by David Stradling On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression, by Mary E. Triece. Reviewed by Elna G. Green Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers’ Project in Massachusetts, by Christine Bold. Reviewed by Bruce Cohen Volume 49 Number 1 February 2008 CONTENTS Defining a ‘living wage’ in America: transformations in union wage theories, 1870-1930 Thomas A. Stapleford British trade unions, the 1975 European Referendum and its legacy Philip B. Whyman Challenging cheap-labour theory: Natal and Transvaal coal miners, ca 1890-1950 Peter Alexander The FEPC and the legacy of the labor-based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s Kevin M. Schultz Symposium Andreas Bieler, The Strugglfeo r a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring Craig Phelan, Editorial note Graham Taylor, The Strugglfeo r a Social Europe: The limits and possibilities of trade union politics in Europe Patrick Pasture, The awakening of the lame duck? Trade unions and the EMU Janine Goetschy, The difficult road to renewed trade union action at the EU level Mark Rupert, Labor and politics in a multi-scalar globalizing capitalism: Bieler and the new neo-Gramscians Andreas Bieler, Trade unions and European integration: Theoretical and empirical considerations Book reviews The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950, by Francille Rusan Wilson. Reviewed by Kevin Boyle Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story ofa n American Hero, by Scott Reynolds Nelson. Reviewed by Craig A. Lockard The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, by Eric L. Goldstein. Reviewed by Jerald Podair Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. Reviewed by Janet Wells Greene Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction, edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin and James Smethurst. Reviewed by Ann Youngblood Mulhearn Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30, by Lawrence M. Lipin. Reviewed by David Stradling On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression, by Mary E. Triece. Reviewed by Elna G. Green Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers’ Project in Massachusetts, by Christine Bold. Reviewed by Bruce Cohen Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market, by Katherine Newman. Reviewed by Robert Forrant English Radicalism 1550-1850, edited by Glen Burgess and Matthew Festenstein. Reviewed by Sarah Hale Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis. Reviewed by Enrico Dal Lago Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution: A Labour Law Perspective, by Stefano Giubboni. Reviewed by Martina G. Viarengo Volume 49 Number 2 May 2008 CONTENTS Introduction: the return of Japanese labor? The mainstreaming of the labor question in Japanese politics Toru Shinoda Labor politics in Japan during ‘the lost fifteen years’: from the politics of productivity to the politics of consumption Mari Miura Shunto and the shackles of competitiveness Charles Weathers Incorporating Japanese labor into the Free World: Cold War diplomacy and economic interdependence, 1949-1964 Koji Nakakita Symposium: Mari Sako, Shifting Boundaries of the Firm Craig Phelan, Editorial note Sanford M. Jacoby, Constrained choices and Japanese labor Lonny E. Carlile, Rediscovering enterprise unions in post-World War II Japanese labor history Ikuo Kume, Taking politics seriously: the dynamics of labor-management relations Motohiro Morishima, Shifting boundaries: worker-side story Mari Sako, Politics and society for Japanese unions Selected bibliography on labor in Japan Christopher Gerteis Book reviews The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin, edited by Rikki Kersten and David Williams. Reviewed by Michael Lewis The Changing Structure of Labour in Japan: Japanese Human Resource Management between Continuity and Innovation, edited by Rene Haak. Reviewed by Lonny Carlile A Sociology of Work in Japan, by Ross Mouer and Hirosuke Kawanishi. Reviewed by Christopher Gerteis Japan’s Business Renaissance: How the World’s Greatest Economy Revived, Renewed and Reinvented Itself, by Mark B. Fuller and John C. Beck. Reviewed by Hyeong-ki Kwon The Japanese Employment System: Adapting to a New Economic Environment, by Marcus Rebick. Reviewed by Jun Imai Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era: Re-Fabricating Lifetime Employment Relations, by Peter C.D. Matanle. Reviewed by Charles Weathers A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises, by Hidemasa Morikawa. Reviewed by John Benson Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology. and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement, by Lonny E. Carlile. Reviewed by Christine de Matos Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan, by Elyssa Faison. Reviewed by Priscilla A. Lambert Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War, by Janet Hunter. Reviewed by Elyssa Faison Volume 49 Number 3 August 2008 CONTENTS Labor History theory and practice series Automation, workers and union decline: Ben Seligman’s contribution to the institutional economics of labor Donald R. Stabile The UAW and the struggle to organize aircraft, 1937-1942 John Olszowka Monitoring and motivating outworkers: the case of the AMP and the sale of industrial life insurance 1905-1940 Monica J. Keneley Symposium: Gay W. Seidman, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism Craig Phelan, Editorial note Mark Anner, Labor in the global economy: state and market-based strategies Kim Voss, All boycotts are not the same Sakhela Buhlungu, Transnational labor activism: solidarity or philanthropy? Tan Robinson, Politics, markets or both? Gay W. Seidman, Citizenship at work Book reviews Featured review. James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. Reviewed by Steve Rosswurm A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader, by Cynthia Taylor. Reviewed by Andrew E. Kersten A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard, by Andrew E. Kersten. Reviewed by Cynthia Taylor From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr, and the Struggle for Economic Justice, by Thomas F. Jackson. Reviewed by Kieran W. Taylor ‘Everybody Was Black Down There’: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields, by Robert H. Woodrum. Reviewed by Colin Davis Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America, by Kevin L. Borg. Reviewed by Lisa M. Fine Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. Reviewed by Jason Whisler Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The West Indian Immigrant Worker Experience in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, 1800-1850, by Jorge Luis Chinea. Reviewed by Christolyn Williams Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936, by Allison Drew. Reviewed by Laura J. Mitchell The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, by Geert Van Goethem. Reviewed by Susan Milner Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific indentured Labour Trade, by Tracey Banivanua-Mar. Reviewed by Donella Caspersz Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China, by Mary Elizabeth Gallagher. Reviewed by William Hurst The Political Philosophy of New Labour, by Matt Beech. Reviewed by Eunice Goes Globalization and the Future of Labour Law, edited by John D.R. Craig and S. Michael Lynk. Reviewed by Martina G. Viarengo Volume 49 Number 4 November 2008 CONTENTS Labor History theory and practice series The 1968-1974 labour upsurge in Britain and America: a critical history, and a look at what might have been Sheila Cohen The concept of wage-push inflation: development and policy Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Christopher L. Erickson How does a coordinated market economy evolve? Effects of policy learning in the Netherlands in the 1980s L. Jeroen Touwen ‘Plenty a dem run away’ — resistance by Indian indentured labourers in Trinidad, 1870-1920 Radica Mahase The fiction of female dependence and the makeshift economy of soldiers, sailors, and their wives in eighteenth-century London Jennine Hurl-Eamon Book reviews Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia, by Peter Cole. Reviewed by Cedric de Leon From the Miners’ Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town, by Karen Bescherer Metheny. Reviewed by Marion Roydhouse Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History, by Melissa Walker. Reviewed by Robert C. McMath On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, by Ellen R. Baker. Reviewed by Anthony Quiroz Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, by Julia L. Mickenberg. Reviewed by Joseph M. Hawes Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants, by Kathleen M. Barry. Reviewed by Nan Enstad The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society, by Mark A. Smith. Reviewed by Paul D. Moreno The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, by Peter Francia. Reviewed by Gerald Friedman Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives, by Stanley L. Engerman. Reviewed by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932, by Kate Transchel. Reviewed by Lynne Hartnett Ruskin and Social Reform: Ethics and Economics in the Victorian Age, by Gill Cockram. Reviewed by Noel Thompson Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, edited by Melanie Nolan. Reviewed by James Bennett The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, by Adam Tooze. Reviewed by Clifton Ganyard The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, by Rita Chin. Reviewed by Michael Fichter Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity, by Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andres Beguidenhout. Reviewed by Ronaldo Munck César Chavez, The Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers’ Strugglfeo r Social Justice, by Marco G. Prouty. Reviewed by Dan Labotz Volume contents and author index Author Index, Volume 49, 2008 Alexander, Peter, 47 | Nakakita, Koji, 199 Anner, Mark, 341 Olszowka, John, 297 Bieler, Andreas, 118 Buhlungu, Sakhela, 353 Pasture, Patrick, 100 Phelan, Craig, 93, 223, 341 Carlile, Lonny E., 228 Cohen, Sheila, 395 Robinson, Ian, 358 Rupert, Mark, 112 Erickson, Christopher L., 417 Sako, Mari, 246 Gerteis, Christopher, 253 Schultz, Kevin M., 71 Goetschy, Janine, 105 Seidman, Gay W., 364 Shinoda, Toru, 145 Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, 481 Stabile, Donald R., 275 Stapleford, Thomas A., Jacoby, Sanford M., 223 Keneley, Monica J., 319 Taylor, Graham, 93 Kume, Ikuo, 234 Touwen, Jeroen L., 439 Mahase, Radica, 465 Voss, Kim, 348 Mitchell, Daniel J.B., 417 Miura, Mari, 161 Weathers, Charles, 177 Morishima, Motohiro, 239 Whyman, Philip B., 23