Labor 7:1

Editor's Introduction- Leon Fink

THE COMMON VERSE

Sweeping the Shop-Eric Vorse

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

Race, Labor, and the City in the Obama Era: King's Unfinished Agenda - Michael Honey

UP FOR DEBATE

Beneath the Radar? Untold Stories and Hidden Politics-Eric Arnesen

Taproots and Monday-Morning Militants- David L. Chappell

Relating the Civil Rights and Community Organizing Movements- Amanda I. Seligman

Between Long Histories and Biography-John McGreevy

Toward a New Civil Rights History-Thomas J. Sugrue

ARTICLES

Private Secretaries in Early-Twentieth-Century America- Sylvia D. Hoffert

Remaking an Older Deal: Chicago Employment Politics, 1932–1936-Thomas F. Dorrance

REVIEW ESSAY

Why Is There No Labor Movement in the United States?- Michael Merrill

BOOK REVIEWS

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War-Brian Kelly

The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II- Marc Simon Rodriguez

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press-Fred Carroll

Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States-Susan Levine

Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s- Paul Husbands

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South- Shelton Stromquist

"They Are All Red Out Here": Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest 1895–1925-Peter Cole

School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program-Elizabeth Rose

The Farmworkers' Journey-Kathleen Mapes

Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax Prísta, 1940–1962-John Weber

Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras-Frederick H. Smith

Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle-George Leidenberger

Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture-Bruce Laurie

Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh-Daniel E. Bender

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley- Nicki Gonzales

Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love- Peter Siskind