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NEW: Videotapes are now available for review. Click here. Books Available for Review in Labor Studies Journal June 24 , 2008 Note: Books are listed alphabetically by author/editor. If you know the author's name, you can find the book more quickly by clicking below. A-E F-J  K-O  P-T  U-Z  For more information, or to review one or more of these books, contact Lynn Feekin, Book Review Editor, Labor Studies Journal, at <lsjedit@oregon.uoregon.edu> For a copy of the LSJ Book Review Style Sheet, click here. For the Transfer of Copyright form, click here. Author/ Editor Title Publisher Date Pages Adams, Roy J. Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right   Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives    2006    146 Aguiar, Luis L.M. and Herod, Andrew    The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism. Cleaners in the Global Economy. Blackwell Publishing    2006 231 Albert, Peter J. and Palladino, Grace    Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 10: World War I, 1917 - 1918    University of Illinois Press: Champaign, IL 2006 680 Amman, John, Carpenter, Tris, and Neff, Gina, eds. Surviving the New Economy Paradigm Publishers 2007 218 Archer, Robin Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ 2008 368 Arnesen, Eric Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge: London and New York, NY 2006 2064 Arnesen, Eric, Ed.       The Black Worker        University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago        2007       319 Bacon, David   Communities Without Borders. Images and Voices From the World of Migration.   Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London   2006  235 Battista, Andrew The Revival of Labor Liberalism University of Illinois Press 2007 280 Bennett, James T., and Kaufman, Bruce E. What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-Year Perspective.  Transaction Publishers       2007       632 Bonacich, Edna and Wilson, Jake B. Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution Cornell University Press 2008 304 Bousquet, Marc How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation New York University Press, NY 2008 280 Bravo, Ellen Taking on the Big Boys. Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. The Feminist Press   2007 Brenner, Chris; Leete, Laura; Pastor, Manuel Staircases or Treadmills?: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY 2007 290 Bronfenbrenner, Kate,, Ed. Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns Cornell University Press: Ithica 2007 312 Brown, Drusilla K. & Stern, Robert M., Eds The WTO and Labor and Employment: Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO Elgar Publishing 2007 672 Caraway, Teri L. Assembling Women. The Feminization of Global Manufacturing. Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press 2007 224 Carpenter, Mike; Freda, Belinda; & Speeden, Stuart, Eds. Beyond the Workfare State: Labour Markets, Equality and Human Rights The Policy Press 2007 184 Chappell, Duncan and Di Martino, Vittorio Violence at Work: Third Edition International Labor Office: Geneva   2006    360 Cohn, Jonathan Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price. HarperCollins Press 2007 320 Das Gupta, Monisha  Unruly Immigrants. Rights, Activism, and Transitional South Asian Politics in the United States. Duke University Press: Durham, NC   2007       259 De Sousa Santos, Boaventura The Rise of the Global Left. The World Social Forum and Beyond. Zed Books, Ltd.: London and New York 2006 187 Erem, Suzan & Durrenberger, E. Paul On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5 Monthly Review Press: New York, NY 2008 224 Estabrook, Thomas Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons From A Louisiana Petrochemical Region Baywood Publishing Company Inc 2007 232 Return to top Finbow, Robert G.    The Limits of Regionalism. NAFTA's Labour Accord. Ashgate Publishing LImited: Andershot, UK and Brookfield, VT    2006     268  Fix, Michael, Ed. Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy Migration Policy Institute 2007  192 Freeman, Richard B., Boxall, Peter, and Haynes, Peter, Eds. What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace Cornell University Press: Ithaca 2007 244 Frymer, Paul Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ 2008 202 Gerteis, Joseph Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement Duke University Press: Durham, NC 2007 274 Ghilarducci, Teresa, & Weller, Christian E., Eds. Employee Pensions: Policies, Problems, and Possibilities Cornell University Press 2007 304 Guskin, Jane & Wilson, David L. The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers Monthly Review Press: New York, NY 2007 176 High, Steven and Lewis, David W. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization Cornell University Press 2008 192 Hill, Steven 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: An Owner's Manual for Concerned Citizens PoliPointPress 2006 196 Hilson, Mary    Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective. Britan and Sweden 1890-1920. Nordic Academic Press; Lund, Sweden   2006   256 Houtman, Dick, Achterberg, Peter; and Derks, Anton Farewell to the Leftist Working Class Transaction Publishers 2007 143 International Labor Office Equality at Work: Tackling the Challenge Renouf Publishing Company Limited 2007 130 Return to top  K.S., Jomo and Baudot, Jacques, Eds. Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality St. Martins Press: NY 2007 416 Kluegel, James R., Mason, David S. and Wegener, Bernd, Eds. Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States Transaction Publishers 2008 359 Kuptsch, Christiane; Ed Merchants of Labor Renouf Publishing Company Limited 2006 259 Lappe, Frances Moore Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad Chelsea Green Publishing Company 2007 144 Lewin, David, Ed Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations Cornell University Press: Ithaca 2006 311 Lipsig, Ethan; Dollarhide, Mary C.; Seifert, Brit K. Reductions in Force in Employment Law BNA Books 2007 1303 Longman, Phillip Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare is Better Than Yours PoliPointPress 2007 138 Lopez, Ann Aurelia The Farmworker's Journey University of California Press: Berkeley 2007 337 MacLean, Nancy Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY 2006 442 Markusen, Ann    Reining in the Competition for Capital. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research    2007    215 Marsh, John, Ed. You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 2007 220 McKercher, Catherine & Mosco, Vincent, Eds. Knowledge Workers in the Information Society Lexington Books 2007 350 McNally, David    Another World Is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism, 2nd Edition. AK Press    2006 Nuttall, Jeremy    Psychological Socialism. The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character, 1931 to the Present. Manchester University Press; New York, NY    2006    196 Ojeda, Martha A. and Hennessy, Rosemary NAFTA From Below: Maquiladora Workers,Campesinos, and Indigenous Communities Speak Out on the Impact of Free Trade in Mexico. Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras. 2007 Ossip, Micheal J and Hale, Robert M The Family and Medical Leave Act The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Washington, D.C. 2006 929 Return to top  Pena, Milagros Latina Activists Across Borders. Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas. Duke University Press: Durham, NC 2007 152 Raelin, Joseph A. Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace Wiley Publishers 2008 338 Ramrattan, Lall & Szenberg, Michael Distressed US Industries in the Era of Globalization Ashgate Publishing LImited: Andershot, UK and Brookfield, VT 2007 176 Rehner Iversen, Robert and Armstrong, Anna Laurie Jobs Aren't Enough. Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families Temple University Press:  Philadelphia 2006 284 Rosskam, Ellen Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace. Baywood Publishing Company Inc 2007 288 Schoeni, Robert F.; House, James S.; Kaplan, George A.; and Pollack, Harold; Eds. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY 2008 390 Seidman, Gay W. Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY 2007 184 Servais, Jean-Michel; Bolle, Patrick; Lansky, Mark; and Smith, Christine; Eds Working for Better Times: Rethinking Work for the 21st century Renouf Publishing Company Limited 2007 552 Smith, Chip The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism Camino Press: North Carolina 2007 420 Snyder, Rachel Louise Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade W.W. Norton: New York 2007 352 Stevis, Dimitris and Boswell, Terry Globalization and Labor: Democratizing Global Governance Rowman & Littlefield 2007 192 Stowell, David O. The Great Strikes of 1877 University of Illinois Press 2008 216 Stromquist, Shelton, ed Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context University of Illinois Press 2007 320 Szakos, Kristin Layng and Szakos, Joe We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about What They Do--and Why Vanderbilt University Press 2007 280 Tallichet, Suzanne E.    Daughters Of The Mountain. Women Coal Miners In Central Appalachia The Pennsylvania State University Press     2006    194  Triece, Mary E.              On The Picket Line. Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression.              University of Illinois Press. Urbana and Chicago              2007              149 Trotter, Joe William, Jr Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45. Second Edition. University of Illinois Press. Urbana and Chicago 2007 355 Return to top Walters, David and Nichols, Theo Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety Palgrave Macmillian: New York 2007 177 Werding, Martin    Structural Unemployment in Western Europe. Reasons and Remedies. The MIT Press: Cambridge MA    2006    339 Woodrum, Robert H. Everybody Was Black Down There. Race and Industrial Change in the in the Alabama Coalfields. University of Georgia Press 2007 229 Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Weisner, Thomas S.; & Lowe, Edward D.; Eds. Making It Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY 2006 427 Zaman, Habiba    Breaking the Iron Wall. Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group: Lanham, MD    2006    200 Zieger, Robert H. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 University Press of Kentucky 2007 344   Back to top Videotapes Available for Review in Labor Studies Journal October, 2007 If you are interested in reviewing videos, please contact Kris Paap, (phone: 315-792-7437) so that she can send the video(s) to you. Reviews are to be no more than 500 words (limit applies to single and multiple film reviews) and are to conform to the general style requirements of Labor Studies Journal Title Producer/Director Format Length Date Available From Bullshit Peå Holmquist, Suzanne Khardalian DVD 73 Minutes 2005 www.cinemaguild.com Calcutta Calling Andre Hormann DVD 17 Minutes 2007 www.cinemaguild.com Copy Me- I Want to Travel Renate Lorenz, Brigitta Kuster, Pauline Boudry VHS 68 Minutes 2004 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Crossing Arizona Joseph Mathew, Daniel DeVivo DVD 77 Minutes 2006 www.cinemaguild.com Everyone Their Grain of Sand Beth Bird VHS 87 Minutes 2005 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Ferry Tales Katja Esson VHS 40 Minutes 2003 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Good Work, Sister Northwest Women's History Project DVD 20 Minutes 2006 www.goodworksister.org Maquilapolis: City of Factories Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre DVD 68 Minutes 2006 California Newsreel www.newsreel.org Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night Sonali Gulati VHS 27 Minutes 2005 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Phantom of the Operator Caroline Martel VHS 66 Minutes 2004 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Shipbreakers Michael Kot DVD 42 Minutes 2004 www.cinemaguild.com Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez Heidi Specogna DVD 58 Minutes 2006 www.cinemaguild.com Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow Mary Fillippo VHS 15 Minutes 2002 Women Make Movies www.wmm.com Valley of Tears Hart Perry DVD 77 Minutes 2005 www.cinemaguild.com Workingman's Death Michael Glawogger DVD 122 Minutes 2005 www.cinemaguild.com For more information, contact Kris Paap (phone: 315-792-7437), or Stephanie Luce (phone: 413 545 5907) AV Co-editors, Labor Studies Journal. 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