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The article briefly reviews "Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America," by Mary Margaret Fonow, "Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace," by Lois Kathryn Herr, "Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705," by Robert Bruno, "The Open Method of Co-ordination in Action: The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies," edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Philippe Pochet, eds., with Lars Magnusson, "Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957," by James C. Van Hook, "Poverty and Charity inthe Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt" and "The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza," by Mark R. Cohen.

The article briefly reviews M. Ann Hall's "The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada;" Hugh D. Hinman's "Child Labour: An American History;" Robert Michael Smith's "From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States;" P.W. Singer's "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry;" Andrew Hemingway's "Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956;" "Why Do People Hate America?" by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies; Robert J. Alexander's "A History of Organized Labor in Brazil;" Richard D. Salvatore's "Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires During the Rosas Era;" Juanita de Barros's "Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924;" "Negotiations and Change: From the Workplace to Society," by Thomas A. Kochan and David B. Lipsky; and Carl Freedman's "The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture."

The article briefly reviews "Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle," by Laurie B. Green, "A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain," by Sheila Blackburn, "Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy From a Strong Society to a Third Way," by Jenny Anderson, "Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe," by Stephen Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, "Voices from the Ships: Australia’s Seafarers and their Union," by Diane Kirkby, "Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa," by Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass, "Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000," by Giovanni Federico, and "Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA," by Bernhard Ebbinghaus.

The article briefly reviews Howard Margolian's "Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956;" Raka Ray's "Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India;" Naila Kabeer's "The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka;" Daniel James's "Doña María's Story : Life, History, Memory, and Political History;" "Women's Work in Britain and France" by Abigail Gregory and Jan Windebank; Elliott D. Sclar's "You Don 'I Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization;" Mary H. Blewett's "Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth- Century New England;" Keith Wrightson's "Earthly Necessity: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain;" Stephen Heathorn's "For Home, Country and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914;" and Mêlante Nolan's "Bread Winning: New Zealand Women and the State."

The article briefly reviews "Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? Diversity in the Power Elite," by Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff; "An Investigation of Racial Disadvantage," by Derek Leslie et al.; Brian Titley's "The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney;" Gilbert G. Gonzalez's "Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest;" Peter Bailey's "Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City;" Ching Kwan Lee's "Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women;" Diana Crane's "Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing;" "Italian Lives: Cape Breton Memories," edited by Sam Migliore and A. Evo Dipierro; and Glenda Riley's "Women and Nature: Saving the 'Wild' West."

The article briefly reviews Peter Gossage's "Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth Century Saint-Hyacinthe;" Daniel T. Rodgers's "Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age;" Claudia Orenstein's "Festive Revolutionaries: The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe;" Micheal Goldfield's "The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics;" Philip Scranton's "Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925;" "The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy," by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce; Christine Cousins' "Society, Work and Welfare in Europe;" "What Workers Want," by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers; and "On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy" by Stephen J. Frenkel, Marek Korczynski, Karen A. Shire, and May Tarn.

The article briefly reviews Doug Smith's "How to Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness;" "The Resilient Outpost: Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland," edited by Rosemary Ommer; Susan Sleeper-Smith's "Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes;" Mark Franko's "The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s;" "Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists," by Owen R. Ashton and Paul A. Pickering, ; Steve Wright's "Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism;" Wendy Z. Goldman's "Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia;" Julie R. Watts's "Immigration Policy and the Challenge to Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely Alliance;" Heidi Tinsman's "Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973;" Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalet's "When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist," edited and translated by Florencia E. Mallon; and S.A. Smith's "Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927."

Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History offers students a sample of some of the best recent scholarship on the history of Canada since Confederation. The readings are grouped in a combination of time periods and themes that are commonly used in studies of the post-Confederation period: “Inventing Canada, 1867-1914”; “Economy and Society in the Industrial Age, 1867-1918”; “Transitional Years: Canada 1919-1945”; “Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975”; and “Post-Modern Canada.” --Publisher's description. Contents: Pt. 1. Inventing Canada, 1867-1914. Dispossession vs. accomodation in plaintiff vs. defendent accounts of Métis dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 / D.N. Sprague -- Remoulding the constitution / Christopher Armstrong -- "The cititzenship debates": the 1885 Franchise Act / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Categories and terrains of exclusion: constructing the "Indian woman" in the early settlement era of western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Eldorado / William R. Morrison. Pt.2. Economy and society in the industrial age, 1867-1918. "Care, control and supervision": native people in the Canadian Atlantic salmon fishery, 1867-1900 / Bill Parenteau -- Necessary for survival: women and children's labour on prairie homesteads, 1871-1911 / Sandra Rollings-Magnusson -- Exclusion or solidarity? Vancouver workers confront the "Oriental problem" / Gillian Creese -- North of the colour line: sleeping car porters and the battle against Jim Crow on Canadian rails, 1880-1920 / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu -- Unmaking manly smokes: church, state, governance, and the first anti-smoking campaigns in Montreal, 1892-1914 / Jarrett Rudy -- The roots of modernism: Darwinism and the higher critics / Ramsay Cook -- Remembering armageddon / Jonathan E. Vance. Pt. 3. Transitional years, 1918-1945. Dancing to perdition: adolescence and leisure in interwar English Canada / Cynthia Comacchio -- "The best man that ever worked the lumber": aboriginal longshoremen and Burrard Inlet, BC, 1863-1939 / Andrew Parnaby -- Indispensible but not a citizen: the housewife in the Great Depression / Denyse Baillargeon -- Introduction to Myths, memories and lies: Quebec's intelligentsia and the Fascist temptation, 1939-1960 / Esther Delisle -- Starting into the abyss / J.L. Granatstein. Pt. 4. Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975. Psychology and the construction of the "normal" family in postwar Canada, 1945-1960 / Mona Gleason -- "I'll wrap the f*#@ Canadian flag around me": a nationalist response to plant shutdown, 1962-1984 / Steven High -- "Character weakness" and "fruit machines": towares an analysis of the anti-homosexual security campaign in the Canadian civil service / Gary Kinsman -- People in the way: modernity, environment, and society on the Arrow Lakes / Tina Loo -- A Newfoundland culture? / James Overton -- Allegories and orientations in African-Canadian historiography: the spirit of Africville / James W. St. G. Walker -- "The Rocket": newspaper coverage of the death of a Québec cultural icon, a Canadian hockey player / Howard Ramos and Kevine Gosine. Pt. 5. Post-modern Canada. "This little piggy went to the prairies": growth and opposition to the prairie hog industry / Michael J. Broadway -- Political economy of gender, race, and class: looking at South Asian immigrant women in Canada / Tania Das Gupta -- Rights in the courts, on the water, and in the woods: the aftermath of R. v. Marshall in New Brunswick / Margaret McCallum -- Family policy, child care and social solidarity: the case of Quebec / Jane Jenson -- No exit: racial profiling and Canada's war against terrorism / Reem Bahdi.