In This Issue

Editor’s Introduction

• Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction

In This Issue

Introduction

• Julie Greene, “Builders of Empire: Rewriting the Labor and Working-Class History of Anglo-American Global Power

In This Issue

The Common Verse

• Sarah Cortez, “Uniform Change-Out“

LAWCHA Watch

• Nancy MacLean, “President’s Perspective: Looking Ahead from Washington, DC“

Articles

• Fernando Teixeira da Silva and Larissa Rosa Corrêa,”The Politics of Justice: Rethinking Brazil’s Corporatist Labor Movement”
  

  This article analyzes the role of collective bargaining in the Brazilian labor courts in two very different political settings: the democratic era preceding the 1964 coup and the initial period of the military dictatorship, from 1964 to 1968.

In This Issue

The Common Verse

• Brooke Boulton, “Claiming Dependents“

LAWCHA Watch

• John W. McKerley and Jennifer Sherer, “The Iowa Labor History Oral Project“

Articles

• Gregory Wood,”“The Justice of a Rule That Forbids the Men Smoking on Their Jobs”: Workers, Managers, and Cigarettes in World War II America”
  

  This article examines struggles over smoking privileges on industrial shop floors during World War II.

In This Issue

Editors’ Introduction

The Common Verse

• Patrick Lawrence O’Keefe, “Last-Day Vendor“

LAWCHA Watch

• Talitha L. LeFlouria, “Membership Matters: LAWCHA’s New System of Recruitment, Retention, and State Coordinating“

Up for Debate

• Eric Arnesen,”Introduction”
  

  In 1935, the civil rights leader and African American intellectual W.

In This Issue

Editors’ Introduction

The Common Verse

• Susan Eisenberg, “Introductions“

LAWCHA Watch

• Naomi R. Williams, “Working Together for Economic Justice“

Up for Debate

• Eric Arnesen, “Introduction”
  

  In 1965, the US Congress passed, and President Lyndon B.

In This Issue

Guest Editors’ Introduction

• Susan Levine and Steve Striffler, “From Field to Table in Labor History”
  

  This special issue of Labor challenges historians to think about food and work in ways that not only include the production of food but also explore the connections between the work of food, the place of food in working-class life, and the very nature and trajectory of capitalism itself.

In This Issue

Articles

• Jarod Roll, “Sympathy for the Devil: The Notorious Career of Missouri’s Strikebreaking Metal Miners, 1896–1910”
  

  Between 1896 and 1910, miners from the zinc and lead district around Joplin, Missouri, worked as strikebreakers in almost every strike waged by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM).

In This Issue

The Common Verse

• Hugh Martin, “Iraq War, 2004”

LAWCHA Watch

• James N. Gregory, “Advancing the Ivory-Collar/Blue-Collar Partnership”

Up for Debate

• Eric Arnesen, “Introduction”
• Nancy MacLean, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Difference a Law Can Make”
• Thomas J.

In This Issue

Articles

• Kristoffer Smemo, “A “New Dealized” Grand Old Party: Labor and the Emergence of Liberal Republicanism in Minneapolis, 1937 – 1939”
  

  In the late 1930s, in Minneapolis and across the urban-industrial North, a cohort of self-described liberal Republicans helped reverse almost a decade’s worth of defeats for the Grand Old Party.