Beyond stereotypes: Mary Wilkins Freeman's radical critique of nineteenth‐century cults of femininity

MARY SHELLEY &; FRANKENSTEIN; THE FATE OF ANDROGYNY by William Veeder. (The University of Chicago Press, 1986), Cloth, $22.50

THE FEMALE MALADY: WOMEN, MADNESS, AND ENGLISH CULTURE, 1830–1980 by Elaine Showalter. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 312 pp., 29 illustrations.

PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURES IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA by Peter Erickson. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985) xii + 209 pp. $22.00

RECLAIMING A CONVERSATION: THE IDEAL OF THE EDUCATED WOMAN by Jane Roland Martin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); ALMA MATER: DESIGN AND EXPERIENCE IN THE WOMEN'S COLLEGES FROM THEIR 19TH‐CENTURY BEGINNINGS TO THE 1930s by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (New York: Knopf, 1984); IN THE COMPANY OF EDUCATED WOMEN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA by Barbara Miller Solomon. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).     

Book reviews: Rewriting Christine

THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES by Christine de Pizan. Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards. Persea Books, 1982.

COMIC WOMEN, TRAGIC MEN: A STUDY OF GENDER AND GENRE IN SHAKESPEARE by Linda Bamber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982. 211 pp. ($18.50)

THE UNDISCOVERED CONTINENT: EMILY DICKINSON AND THE SPACE OF THE MIND by Suzanne Juhasz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

REGINA by Leslie Epstein. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, New York. 251 pp. ($13.95). Avon Books ($3.95).

MORE WORK FOR MOTHER: THE IRONIES OF HOUSEHOLD TECHNOLOGY FROM THE OPEN HEARTH TO THE MICROWAVE by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. Basic Books, New York, 1983. 219 pp.     

Feminist and family history: Some pitfalls

Up from the Pedestal, Aileen S. Kraditor, ed. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970. 369 pp. $2.95.

Everyone Was Brave, William L. O'Neill, Chicago: Quadrangle, 1969. 359 pp. $7.95.

Divorce in the Progressive Era, William L. O'Neill, New Haven: Yale University Press. 1967. 273 pp. $6.50.     

Film Reviews

Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Edited by Gary M. Fink. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. xvii, 767 pp. $49.95.

What Do Unions Do? By Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff. New York: Basic Books, 1984. viii, 293 pp. $22.95.

Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor. By Stanley Aronowitz. New York: Adama Books, 1984. vii, 229 pp. $12.95

America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics among Blue‐Collar Property Owners. By David Halle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xviii, 399 pp. $24.95.

The Critical Vision: A History of Social and Political Art in the United States. By Paul Von Blum. Boston: South End Press, 1982. xviii, 169 pp. $9.50

Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890–1920. By R. Jeffrey Lustig. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xiii, 357pp. $25.00

High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York. By Mark Goldman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. 324 pp. $17.95.

Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth‐Century New England. By Hal S. Barron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii, 184 pp. $24.95.

History and Class: Essential Readings in Theory and Interpretation. Edited by R. S. Neale. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. x, 318 pp. $27.00.

Connecticut Workers and Technological Change. By Robert Asher. Storrs: University of Connecticut, Center for Oral History, Project on Connecticut Workers and A Half Century of Technological Change, 1930–1980. 1983. 100 pp. $8.95.

The Haymarket Tragedy. By Paul Avrich. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv. 535 pp. $29.50.

Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II. Edited by Lucie Cheng and Edna Bonacich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xiv, 634 pp. $32.50.

China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868–1911. By Shih‐shan Henry Tsai. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1983. ix, 166. $17.50.

The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings. By Staughton Lynd. San Pedro. CA: Singlejack Books, 1982. xx + 244pp. $9.95.

Energy Transition and the Local Community: A theory of Society applied to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. By Dan Rose. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xx, 189pp. $21.95.

“An Impartial Umpire”: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900–1911. By Paul Craven. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981, 386 pp. C. $21.95

John Ludlow: The Autobiography of a Christian Socialist. Edited and introduced by Alan D. Murray. Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass &; Co. Ltd, 1981. xxxii, 334 pp. $30.00.

The Great Paternalistic: Titus Salt and the Growth of 19th Century Bradford. By Jack Reynolds. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1983. 382 pp.”; $25.00.

Industrial Politics. By Robert Currie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, viii, 294 pp. $26.00.

The Militant Worker: Class and Radicalism in France and America. By Scott Lash. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. vii. 264 pp. $29.50.

The French Workers’ Movement: Economic Crisis and Political Change. Edited by Mark Kesselman. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1984. viii. 350 pp. $35.00.

New Patterns of Work Reform: The Case of Norway. By Bjorn Gustavsen and Gerry Hunnius. Oslo‐Bergen‐Tromsoe: Universitetsforlaget. 1981. 207 pp. $15.00.

Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. By Mark Holmström. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 342 pp. $44.50.

The Crisis in Marxism. By Jack Lindsay. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. 183 pp. $22.50.     

Technology and the housewife in nineteenth‐century America

ALICE JAMES: A BIOGRAPHY by Jean Strouse. Boston. Houghton, Mifflin, 1980. 367 pp. ($15.00).

THE DEATH AND LETTERS OF ALICE JAMES edited by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1981.214pp. ($12.95)

CONVERSATIONS WITH KATHERINE ANNE PORTER by Enrique Hank Lopez. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981). 326 pp., $14.95.     

Notes on Contributors

The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860–1885. By Eric H. Monkkonen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. ix, 185 pp. $13.50.

Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal, By Robert P. Ingalls. New York: New York University Press, 1975. xx, 287 pp. $15.00

Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. By Jacques E. Levy. New York: W. W. Norton &; Co., 1975. xxv, 546 pp. $12.95.

An Alternative Vision: The Socialist Party in the 1930s. By Frank A. Warren. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974. xiii, 273 pp. $10.00.

Marxism in United States History Before the Russian Revolution (1876–1917). By Oakley C. Johnson. New York: Humanities Press, 1974. ix, 196 pp. $8.95.

Blue Collar Community, By William Kornblum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 260 pp. $9.95.

American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. By Philip S. Foner. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1975. 356 pp. with two recordings. $13.95.

Faculty Grievance Arbitration in Higher Faculty Grievance Arbitration: Living With Collective Bargaining. By June Weisberger. Ithaca, New York: Institute of Public Employment, IPE Monograph No. 5, Cornell University, 1976. 44pp. $2.25.

Trade Unions and Revolution: The Industrial Politics of the Early British Communist Party. By James Hinton and Richard Hyman. London: Pluto Press, 1975.78 pp. 90 pence.

Comparative Union Democracy: Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions. By J. David Edelstein and Malcolm Warner. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1976. viii, 378 pp. $15.00.

The Road to Bloody Sunday: Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905. By Walter Sablinsky, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xi, 414 pp. $18.50.

Workers Against the Monolith: The Communist Parties Since 1943. By Ian H. Birchall. New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 256 pp. $4.95, paperback

Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, 1890–1910. By John Rickard. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976. xiv, 372 pp. $A15.95.     

Modern socialism: an introduction and appraisal

Bisbee ‘17: a novel. By Robert Houston. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. 287 pp. $10.00.

Minnesota Farmer‐Laborism: The Third‐Party Alternative. By Millard L. Gieske. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979. ix, 389 pp. $15.00.

The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression. By Paul Bonnifield. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. xii, 232 pp. $12.50

The Landrum‐Grijjin Act: Twenty Years of Federal Protection of Union Members’ Rights. By Janice R. Bellace and Alan D. Berkowitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Industrial Research Unit, 1979. xiv, 363 pp. $15.00.

Political Control of the Economy. By Edward R. Tufte. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xi, 168 pp. $10.00.

Auto Work and Its Discontents. Edited by B.J. Widick. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. 112 pp. $8.00.

Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit. By Lynda A. Ewen. Princeton University Press, 1978. xii, 312 pp. $17.50.

The Impact of the AT&;T‐EEO Consent Decree. By Herbert R. Northrup, and John A. Larson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Industrial Research Unit, 1979. xvi, 234 pp. $11.50.

Women in the Labor Market. Edited by Cynthia B. Lloyd, Emily S. Andrews and Curtis L. Gilroy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xxi, 377 pp. $25.00.

Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke. By Elizabeth Alden Green. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1979. 406 pp. $17.50.

The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas. Edited by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin with a foreword by Millicent Carey McIntosh. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1979. 314 pp. $15.00.

The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups. Edited by Randal M. Miller. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Jerome S. Ozer, 1980. xiii, 222 pp. $12.95.

Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth‐Century Europe. Edited by John M. Merriman. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979. vii, 261 pp. $24.50.

Women, Work, and Family. By Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. xiv, 274 pp. $6.95 paperback.

The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. By Albert Goodwin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. 594 pp. $20.00.

Independent Collier: The Coalminer as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered. Edited by Royden Harrison. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. 276 pp. $20.00.

British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Politics. By Stanley Pier‐son. Cambridge: MA Harvard University Press, 1979.403 pp. $25.00.

Cunningham Graham: A Critical Biography. By Cedric Watts and Laurence Davies. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980. xiii, 333 pp. $27.50.

G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy. By A. W. Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 301 pp. $36.00.

Paths To Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820–48. By Peter N. Stearns. Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 222 pp. $20.00.     

Holy Motherhood: gender,dynasty, and visual culture in the later Middle Ages ELIZABETH L'ESTRANGE

The following books are reviewed.

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: the rise of Women's political culture, 1830-1900 KATHRYN KISH SKLAR, 1995 New Haven: Yale University Press. xviii + 436 pp., ISBN 0 300 05912 4, $25

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: her progress toward utopia with selected writings CAROL FARLEY KESSLER, 1995 Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. xi +316 pp., ISBN 0 8156 2644 4, hardback, £27.50, ISBN 0 8156 2644 5, paperback, £15

Always a Sister: the feminism of Lillian D. Wald DORIS GROSHEN DANIELS, 1995 New York: The Feminist Press. x +207 pp., ISBN 1 55861 113 4, paperback,$12.95

Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood ELIZABETH BORTOLAIA SILVA (Ed.), 1996 London: Routledge. ix + 241 pp., ISBN 0 415 12889 7, hardback, £47.50, ISBN 0 415 12890 0, paperback, £14.99

The Case for Women in Medieval Culture ALCUIN BLAMIRES, 1997 Oxford: Clarendon Press. viii + 279 pp., ISBN 0 19 818256 2, £40.00

Midwives, Society and Childbirth: debates and controversies in the modern period HILARY MARLAND &; ANNE-MARIE RAFFERTY (Eds), 1997 London: Routledge. xiii + 278pp., ISBN 0 415 13328 9, hardback, £50.00

Black British Feminism: a reader HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA (Ed.), 1997 York: Routledge. xiv + 297pp., paperback, £14.99

Dear Laughing Motorbyke: letters from women welders of the Second World War MARGARETTA JOLLY (Ed.), 1997 London: Scarlet Press. x + 174pp., paperback, £9.99

Women, Guerrillas, and Love: understanding war in Central America ILEANA RODRÍGUEZ, 1996 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. xxv + 183pp., $19.95

The New Woman: fiction and feminism at the fin-de-siécle SALLY LEDGER, 1997 Manchester: Manchester University Press. vii + 216pp., ISBN 0 7190 4092 2, hardback, £35, ISBN 0 7190 4093, paperback, £13.99

Single Mothers in an International Context: mothers or workers? SIMON DUNCAN &; ROSALIND EDWARDS (Eds), 1997 London: UCL Press. ix + 285 pp., ISBN 1 85728 791 6, paperback, £13.95

Moving the Goalposts: a history of sport and society since 1945 MARTIN POLLEY, 1998 London: Routledge. xii + 236 pp., ISBN 0 415 14217 2, paperback, £12.99

Imagining Home, Gender, ‘Race’ and National Identity, 1945-64 WENDY WEBSTER, 1998 London: UCL Press. 240 pp., ISBN 1 85728 350 3, hardback, £40.00, ISBN 1 8572 8 3511, paperback, £12.95

Faces of Feminism: an activist's reflections on the Women's Movement SHEILA TOBIAS, 1997 Oxford: Westview Press. xvi + 332 pp., ISBN 0 8133 2842 X, hardback, £17.95     

Book reviews

Conversations with lillian hellman edited by Jackson R. Bryer‐Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1986, 298 pp. $19.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper).

PROVINCE OF REASON: AMERICAN LIVES IN A NEW AGE OF SCIENCE by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Harvard University Press, 1984. (cloth, $20.00)     

The manifesto of the North American anti‐fascist alliance,New York,august 26, 1926

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, By Ira Berlin. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. xxi, 423 pp. $15.00.

Rights of Union Members and the Government. By Philip Taft. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. xv, 348 pp. $14.95.

The Hundred Million Dollar Pay Off. By Douglas Caddy. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974. $8.75.

Mother Jones—The Miners’ Angel: A Portrait. By Dale Fetherling. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. 263 pp. $11.85

A Guide to the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. Compiled and edited by Warner W. Pflug. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974. 195 pp. $8.95.

MAN!: An Anthology of Anarchist Ideas, Essays, Poetry and Commentaries. Edited by Marcus Graham. London: Genfuegos Press, 1974. 638 pp. £7.00 ($17.00), paperback £ 3.25p ($8.00).

Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike. By David Jay Bercuson. Montreal and London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1974. pp. x, 227.

English Hunger &; Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During the First Decade of George III's Reign. By Walter James Shelton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. ix, 226 pp. $15.00.

Edwardian Radicalism, 1900–1914: Some Aspects of British Radicalism. Edited by A.J.A. Morris. Boston: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1974. x, 277 pp. $18.00.

Les Ouvriers en grève. By Michelle Perrot. Paris: Mouton, 1974. 2 volumes. 900 pp.

The Import of Labor: The case of the Netherlands. By Adriana Marshall. Rotterdam: Rotterdam University Press, 1973. 177 pp.

The Chinese Worker. By Charles Hoffmann. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1974. xi, 252 pp. $15.00.     

Lifting the curse of dimensionality: measures of the states' labor legislation climate in the United States during the progressive era

Labor Management and Social Policy, Gerald Somers, Editor, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. 303 pp. $6.00.

Myself by John R. Commons, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964, 201 pp., $1.75. (Originally published by the Macmillan Company in 1934.)

A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician, by Stanley Coben. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. 351 pps. $7.50.

The Automobile Under the Blue Eagle, by Sidney Fine. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. 1963. 566 pp. $15.00.

Henry Demurest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform, by Chester McArthur Destler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. 657 pp. $12.00.

The Nation Transformed: The Creation of an Industrial Society. Edited with an introduction by Sigmund Diamond. New York City: George Braziller, 1963, 528 pp. $8.50.

America's Great Depression, by Murray N. Rothbard. Princeton, N. J.: D. Van Nostrand Co. 1963. 361 pp., $8.95.

Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression, by Seatle F. Charles. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1963. 286 pp. $6.00.

A History of the Los Angeles Labor Movement, 1911–1941, by Louis B. Perry and Richard S. Perry. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1963. 622 pp. $10.50.

A History of British Trade Unionism, by Henry Pelling, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963, 287 pp. $8.50.     

The industrial union bulletin: An introduction and appraisal

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. By John Gaventa. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. xi, 267 pp. $25.00.

History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume V: “The AFL In The Progressive Era, 1910–1915.”; By Philip S. Foner. New York: International Publishers, 1980. 293 pp. $4.95 paper.

Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886–1923. By Gerald G. Eggert. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. xvii, 212 pp. $17.95.

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: the Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880–1922. By David Alan Corbin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. 294 pp. $24.95 cloth; $12.50 paper.

The Response of Social Work to the Depression. By Jacob Fisher. Boston: G.K. Hall &; Co., 1980. xxii, 266 pp. $23.95.

The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions. By Roger Keeran. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. 340 pp. $22.50.

Facing Mechanization: The West Coast Longshore Plan. By Lincoln Fairley. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1979. xiv, 447 pp. $8.50 paper.

Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885–1917. By Carlos A. Schwantes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. ix, 288 pp. $25.00.

Fit Work for Women. Edited by Sandra Burman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. 201 pp. $18.00.

Poverty and Piety in an English Village, Terling: 1525–1700. By Keith Wrightson and David Levine. New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press, 1979. 254 pp. $21.00.     

Letters

Frame‐Up. By Curt Gentry, New York: W. W. Norton. 1967. 477 pp. $7.50.

Abraham Bisno: Union Pioneer. Foreword by Joel Seidman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1967. 244 pp. $6.50.

Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law. By Stephen B. Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968. 320 pp. $10.00.

The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life. By Benjamin G. Rader. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966. 276 pp. $7.50.

Homer Folks: Pioneer in Social Welfare. By Walter I. Trattner. New York and London: Columbia University Press. 1968. 355 pp. $10.00.

Poverty and Politics, The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration. By Stanley Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1968. 438 pp. $10.00.

Labor Politics American Style: California Federation of Labor. By Philip Taft. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1968. 288 pp. $7.00.

The Political Imperative. By Gus Tyler. New York: Macmillan, 1968. 306 pp. $6.95.

Retraining the Unemployed. Edited by Gerald G. Somers. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: The University of Wisconsin Press. 1968. 341 pp. $10.00.

Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism. By Michael Aiken, Louis A. Ferman, and Harold L. Sheppard. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press. 1968. vi + 213 pp. $7.50.

Class, Race and Labor: Working‐Class Consciousness in Detroit. By John C. Leggett. New York: Oxford University Press. 1968. 252 pp. $7.50.

Permanent Poverty, An American Syndrome. By Ben B. Seligman. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968. 238 pp. $6.50.

The Socialist Register 1968. Edited by Ralph Miliband and John Saville. New York: Monthly Review Press. 1968. $6.50.

Experiment in Industrial Democracy: A Study of the John Lewis Partnership. By Allan Flanders, Ruth Pomeranz and Joan Woodward. London: Faber &; Faber. 1968. 261 pp. 45s.

Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America. By Victor Alba. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1968. 404 pp. $12.50.

EL MOVIMENTO OBRERO ESPAÑOL, 1886–1926: (HISTORIA Y CRÍT‐ICA.) By Manuel Buenacasa. Prologue by Max Nettlau. 2nd ed. Paris: Familia y Amigos del Autor. 1966. 320 pp.

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West. By Georges Duby. Translated by Cynthia Postan. Columbia, S.C.: The University of South Carolina Press. 1968. 600 pp. $10.00.

The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919–1927. By Jean Chesneaux. Translated from the French by H. M. Wright. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1968. 574 pp. $15. (Originally published in French in 1962 under the title Le mouvement ouvrier chinois de 1919 a 1927.)     

Book notes

The Ku Klux Klan, By William Peirce Randel. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1965. 300 pp. $5.95.

The Business Establishment. Edited by Earl F. Cheit. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1965. 248 pp. $4.95.

Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914. By Ray Ginger. New York: Macmillan, 1965. 386 pps. $5.75.

Equality in America. By Alan P. Grimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 136 pp. $4.00.

The Quest for the Dream. By John P. Roche. New York: Macmillan, 1963. 308 pp. $5.95.

Quest for America, 1810–1824. Edited by Charles Sanford. New York: Washington Square‐NYU Press, 1964. 474 pp. $7.50.     

Books revieved

Chinese Labor in California by Ping Chiu. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. 180 pp. $3.50.

The First International in America, by Samuel Bernstein, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1962. 312 pp. $10.00.

“Recruits to Labor”, The British Labour Party, 1914–1931 by C. A. Cline. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1963. 198 pp. $6.95.

The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist Thought, by Norman Pollack. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. 165 pp, $4.50.

Soldiers and Spruce: Origins of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen by Harold M. Hyman. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California Press, 1963. 341 pp. $3.00.

The American Worker in the Twentieth Century, by Eli Ginzberg and Hyman Berman, New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. 368 pp. $7.50.

The Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of the American Civil Liberties Union. By Donald Johnson. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1963‐ 243 pp. $5.00.

Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845–1921. By Donald B. Cole. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 248 pp. $6.00.     

Union labels and boycotts: Cooperation of the knights of labor and the cigar makers international union, 1885–6

Hard‐Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Mark Wyman. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. x, 331 pp. $15.95.

Wage‐Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900–1930. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 266 pp. $14.95.

Feigned Necessity: Hawaii's Attempts to Obtain Chinese Contract Labor, 1921–1923. By John E. Reinecke. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, Inc., 1979. xvi, 697 pp., n.p.

Lumber and Politics: The Career of Mark E. Reed. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. xi, 276 pp. $14.95.

The Mess in Washington: Manpower Mobilization in World War II. By George Q. Flynn. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1979. xi, 294 pp. $17.95.

The Great Fear: The Anti‐Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. By David Caute. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. 638 pp. $14.95.

Which Side Are You On? The Brookside Mine Strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. By Lynda Ann Ewen. Chicago: Vanguard Books, 1979. 139 pp. Appendix. $4.95.

A Ghetto Grows In Brooklyn. By Harold X. Connolly. New York: New York University Press, 1977. xv, 248 pp. $15.00.

Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930's. Edited by Donna Phillips. Introduction by Kenneth J. Hughes. Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1979. 220 pp. $7.95.

Popular Disturbances in England: 1700–1870. By John Stevenson. New York: Longman, 1979. vii, 374 pp. $24.00.

Before The Welfare State: Social Administration in Early Industrial Brit‐tain. By Ursula R. Q. Henriques. New York: Longman, 1979. 294 pp. $10.50.

Aristocracy and People: Britain 1815–1865. By Norman Gash. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. vii, 375 pp. $20.00.

Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth‐Century London: John Gast and His Times. By I. J. Prothero. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 418 pp. $30.00.

The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability 1900–1914. Edited by Alan O'Day. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979. 199 pp. $19.95.

Goodbye to the Working Class: A Study of 122 Former Grammar School Children from Dagenham. By Roy Greenslade. London: Marion Boyars, 1979. 192 pp. $ 5.95.

The Action Française and Revolutionary Syndicalism. By Paul Mazgaj. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. 281 pp. $24.95.

Paths To Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820–1848. By Peter N. Stearns. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 222 pp. $12.95.

French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851. By Ted W. Marga‐dent. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xxiv, 379 pp. $25.00.

The Service City: State and Townsmen In Russia, 1600–1800. By J. Michael Hittle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. viii, 297 pp. $20.00.

Karl Marx, Romantic Irony and the Proletariat: The Mythopoetic Origins of Marxism. By Leonard P. Wessell, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 297 pp. $20.00.     

The trade union press: An historical analysis

American Labor: from Conspiracy to Collective Bargaining. Created by Leon Stein and Philip Taft. New York: Arno Press. 1969.60 volumes. $744.50.¹

Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History. By Edith Abbott. New York and London: D. Appleton. 1910. 408 pp. $14.50.

The Working‐Class Movement in America. By Edward and Eleanor Marx Aveling. Second edition. London: Swan Sonnenschein &; Co. 1891. 239 pp. $9.00.

The American Labor Movement: A Short History. By Mary Ritter Beard. New York: Macmillan. 1931. 206 pp. $7.50.

The Strike for Union. By Heber Blankenhorn. New York: H. W. Wilson. 1924. 259 pp. $9.50.

Labor Economics. By Solomon Blum. New York: Henry Holt. 1925. 579 pp. $20.00.

Women in Industry. By Louis D. Brandéis and Josephine Goldmark. New York: National Consumers' League. 1907.121 pp. $5.00.

American Syndicalism: The I.W.W. By John Graham Brooks. New York: Macmillan. 1913. 264 pp. $9.50.

Women and the Trades. Pittsburgh, 1907–1908. By Elizabeth Beardsley Butler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1909.440 pp. $15.50.

Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town. By Margaret F. Byington. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1910. 307 pp. $11.00.

Labor and Politics: The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward Legislation and Politics. By Mollie Ray Carroll. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1923. 206 pp. $7.50.

The Molly Maguire Riots: Industrial Conflict in The Pennsylvania Coal Region. By J. Walter Coleman. Richmond: Garrett and Massie. 1936. 189 pp. $7.00.

Men and Coal. By McAlister Coleman. New York: Farrar &; Rinehart. 1943. 350 pp. $12.50.

Industrial Goodwill. By John R. Commons. New York: McGraw‐Hill. 1919. 213 pp. $8.00.

Industrial Government. By John R. Commons and others. New York: Macmillan. 1921. 425 pp. $15.00.

Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States. By Joseph A. Dacus. Chicago: L. T. Palmer. 1877. 480 pp. $17.00.

The Laborer: A Remedy for His Wrongs. By William Dealtry. Cincinnati: William Dealtry. 1869. 420 pp. $14.50.

The Worker in Modern Economic Society. By Paul H. Douglas, Curtice N. Hitchcock, and Willard E. Atkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1923. 929 pp. $32.00.

Work‐Accidents and the Law. By Crystal Eastman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1910. 361 pp. $13.00.

The Labor Movement in America. By Richard T. Ely. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1886. 399 PP. $14.00.

Problems in Labor Relations. By Herman Feldman. New York: Macmillan. 1937. 353 pp. $12.50.

The Steel Workers. By John A. Fitch. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1911. 393 pp. $14.00.

Labor Problems: A Book of Materials for Their Study. By Edgar S. Furniss and Lawrence R. Guild. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. 1925. 621 pp. $22.00.

Working People and Their Employers. By Washington Gladden. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks. 1876. 241 pp. $9.00.

Labor and the Common Welfare. By Samuel Gompers. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1919. 306 pp. $11.00.

American Labor Dynamics, in the Light of Post‐War Developments. J. B. S. Hardman, editor. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1928. 432 pp. $15.00.

Voluntarism in Organized Labor in the United States, 1930–1940. By George Gilmary Higgins. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 1944. 182 pp. $7.00.

The Strike: A Study in Collective Action. By Ernest T. Hiller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1928. 304 pp. $11.00.

Studies in American Trade Unionism. By Jacob H. Hollander and George E. Barnett. New York: Henry Holt. 1906. 380 pp. $13.50.

The Voice of Labor. By Symmes M. Jelley. Philadelphia: H. J. Smith. 1888. 401 pp. $14.50.

Autobiography of Mother Jones. By Mary Jones. Edited by Mary Field Parton. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr. 1925. 242 pp. $9.00.

Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation. By Florence Kelley. New York: Macmillan. 1905. 341 pp. $12.00.

The Making of America: Labor. Robert M. LaFollette, editor. Chicago: John D. Morris. 1905. 433 pp. $15.00.

Civil War in West Virginia. By Winthrop D. Lane. New York: B. W. Huebsch. 1921. 128 pp. $5.00.

Conditions of Labor in American Industries. By W. Jett Lauck and Edgar Sydenstricker. New York and London: Funk &; Wagnalls. 1917. 404 pp. $14.50.

Adjusting Immigrant and Industry. By William M. Leiserson. New York and London: Harper &; Brothers. 1924. 356 pp. $12.50.

The Knights of St. Crispin, 1867–1874. By Don D. Lescohier. Madison, Wisconsin: Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 355. 1910. 101 pp. $4.50.

I Break Strikes! The Technique of Pearl L. Bergoff. By Edward Levinson. New York: Robert M. McBride. 1935. 314 pp. $11.50.

Men, the Workers. By Henry Demarest Lloyd. New York: Doubleday, Page. 1909. 280 pp $10.50.

The Women's Garment Workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. By Louis Lorwin (Louis Levine). New York: B. W. Huebsch. 1924. 608 pp. $21.50.

Children in Bondage. By Edwin Markham, Benjamin B. Lindsey, and George Creel. New York: Hearst's International Library. 1914. 411 pp. $14.50.

American Labor Unions. By Helen Marot. New York: Henry Holt. 1914. 275 pp. $10.00.

Organized Labor and the Law, with Special Reference to the Sherman and Clayton Acts By Alpheus T. Mason. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1925. 265 pp. $10.00

A Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question. By Simon Newcomb. New York: Harper &; Brothers. 1886. 195 pp. $7.50.

The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare. By George M. Price. New York: John Wiley &; Sons. 1914. 574 pp. $20.00.

The Problem of Group Responsibility to Society. By John Herman Randall. New York: Columbia University. 1922. 296 pp. $10.00.

Social Insurance, with Special Reference to American Conditions. By I. M. Rubinow. New York: Henry Holt. 1913. 525 pp. $18.50.

Readings in Trade Unionism. By David M. Saposs. New York: George H. Doran. 1926 451 pp. $15.50.

Union Policies and Industrial Management. By Sumner H. Slichter. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute. 1941. 611 pp. $21.50.

The Accused and the Accusers, The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court. Socialistic Publishing Society. Chicago: Socialistic Publishing Society, n.d. 188 pp. $7.00.

The Pullman Strike. Leon Stein, editor. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 254 pp. $9.50.

Religion, Reform, and Revolution: Labor Panaceas in the Nineteenth Century. Leon Stein and Philip Taft, editors. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 581 pp. $21.00.

Wages, Hours, and Strikes: Labor Panaceas in the Twentieth Century. Leon Stein and Philip Taft, editors. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 528 pp. $18.50.

A Momentous Question. The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital. By John Swinton. Philadelphia and Chicago: Keller. 1895. 498 pp. $17.50.

The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences. By Frank Tannenbaum. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. 259 pp. $9.50.

Instincts in Industry: A Study of Working‐Class Psychology. By Ordway Tead. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1918. 222 pp. $8.00.

Labor's New Millions. By Mary Heaton Vorse. New York: Modern Age Books. 1938. 312 pp. $11.50.

The Government in Labor Disputes. By Edwin E. Witte. New York and London: McGraw‐Hill. 1932. 352 pp. $12.50.

The Working Girls of Boston. By Carroll D. Wright. Boston: Wright &; Potter. 1889. 133 pp. $5.50.

The Wage Policies of Labor Organizations in a Period of Industrial Depression. By Vertrees J. Wyckoff. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1926. 119 pp. $5.00.

American Labor Struggles. By Samuel Yellen. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1936. 398 pp. $14.00.     

Books reviewed

American Trade Union Democracy. By William M. Leiserson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. xvii, 354 pp. $7.50

The Maritime Story: A Study in Labor‐Management Relations. By Joseph P. Goldberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. x, 361 pp. $6.50

1877: Year of Violence. By Robert V. Bruce. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, 1959. 384 pp. $5.00

Labor and Economic Development. Edited by Walter Galenson. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. xiii, 304 pp. $6.75

A Decade of Industrial Relations Research 1946–1956. Edited by Neil W. Chamberlain, Frank C. Pierson, and Theresa Wolfson. Publication No. 19 of the Industrial Relations Research Association. New York: Harper, 1958. viii, 205 pp. $3.50     

Songs of the eight‐hour movement∗

The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870–1920. By Warren R. Van Tine. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. 230 pp. $10.00.

Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform. By John D. Buenker. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. xi + 299 pp. $8.95.

Labor's Search For Political Order: The Political Behavior Of The Missouri Labor Movement, 1890–1940. By Gary M. Fink. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973. viii + 228 pp. $10.00.

Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank and File Union. By James J. Matles and James Higgins. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1974. 311 pp. $6.95.

Writers in Revolt: the Anvil Anthology, 1933–1940. Edited by Jack Conroy and Curt Johnson. New York: Lawrence Hill &; Co., 1973. 234 pp. $8.95.

The Aristocracy of Labor: The Position of Skilled Craftsmen in the American Class Structure. Cambridge Studies in Sociology 7. By Gavin Mackenzie. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1973‐ 208 pp. $14.50.

Aspects historiques du mouvement ouvrier au Quebec. Edited and with an introduction by Fernand Harvey. Etudes d'histoire du Québec, 6. Montréal: Les Editions du boréal express, 1973. 226 pp. $5.80.

G. D. H. Cole. An Intellectual Biography. By L. P. Carpenter. Conference on British Studies Biographical Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 271 pp. $14.95.

Five Per Cent Philanthropy: An Account of Housing in Urban Areas Between 1840 and 1914. By John Nelson Tarn. Cambridge, G. B.; Cambridge University Press, 1973. xiv, 211 pp. $23.50.

The Emancipation of Women: The Rise and Decline of the Women's Movement in German Social Democracy 1863–1933. By Werner Thonnessen. Trans. Joris de Btes. London: Pluto Press, 1973.185 pp. £3.75.