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The article reviews the book, "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity," by Eugene McCarraher.
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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."
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The article reviews and comments on severa; books, "Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada," by Nancy Christie; "The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America, by Beatrix Hoffman; Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence: Familles québécoises, obligation scolaire et allocations familiales, 1940-1955," by Dominique Marshall; and "Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History," by Alice O'Connor.
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The article reviews the book, "J. B. McLachlan: A Biography," by David Frank.
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The article reviews the book, "Grève et paix. Une histoire des lois spéciales au Québec," by Martin Petitclerc and Martin Robert.
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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, 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.
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Pays homage to the life and work of Walter Hildebrandt (1951-2021), who published historical studies of Indigenous communities in the Canadian West and Indigenous relations with the Canadian state. A historian for Parks Canada, Hildebrandt later became publishing director of the University of Calgary and Athabasca University presses. Includes an appreciation of Hildebrandt's poetry, with selections from three long poems — "Let Them Eat Grass / The Dakota Wars 1862" and "Winnipeg 1919" — that were originally published in the 2016 collection, "Documentaries: Poems." Also introduces three poems by Tom Wayman — "Reply," "When the Future Wore a Mask: My Parents at War" and "Ars Poetica: Nail" — intended as tributes. A photo of Hildebrandt is also included.