In This Issue
The Common Verse
Joan Mazza, “Self-Portrait as a Microbiologist”
Contemporary Affairs
Robert D. Johnston, “The Madison Moment: Labor Historians as Public Intellectuals during the Wisconsin Labor Crisis”
Interview
Christopher Phelps, “Port Huron at Fifty: The New Left and Labor: An Interview with Kim Moody”
Up for Debate
Dennis Deslippe, “On the Importance of Affirmative Action: Labor Liberals and the Recasting of “Contract Unionism””
Paul Moreno, “Union Job Protection Equals Discrimination”
Ava Baron, “Affirmative Action and the Unhappy Marriage of Union Rights and Equality Rights”
Joseph A. McCartin, “Details, Details: Unions, Affirmative Action, and the Deslippe Thesis”
William P. Jones, “Does the Exception Prove the Rule?”
Dennis Deslippe, “Response”
Article
Charles McGraw, “Mammy at MacClenny, Jezebel in Jacksonville: Southern Fever Nursing in History and Memory ”
Review Essay
Susan Dewey, “The Feminized Labor of Sex Work: Two Decades of Feminist Historical and Ethnographic Research“
Museum Reviews
- Seth C. Bruggeman, “The New Labor History Museum: A Status Report”
- Beth English, “Lowell National Historical Park”
- David Witwer, “Eckley Miners’ Village”
- William J. Bauer, Jr., “California State Indian Museum”
- Patricia A. Reeve, “Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea”
- Trevor Griffey, “Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience”
Book Reviews
- Benjamin L. Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America – Gary B. Nash
- James J. Conolly, An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America – Gregory P. Downs
- Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class – Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
- Rosanne Currarina, The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age – David M. Struthers
- Susan Dewey, Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town – Eileen Boris
- Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative – Susan Levine
- Erin Hatton, The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America – J. Andrew Ross
- Robb Linné, Leigh Benin, and Adrienne Sosin, eds, Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the US Labor Movement – Andrew B. Arnold
- Harvey Neptune, Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation – Jana J. Lipman
- Bryan D. Palmer, Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era – Lawrence Aronsen
- Donald W. Rogers, Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880 – 1940 – Jamie L. Bronstein
- Allan M. Winkler, “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song – Will Kaufman
