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The editor pays tribute to managing editor Irene Whitfield, who retired after 25 years' service. Josephine Thompson has succeeded her in various capacities.

Expresses appreciation to the editorial team. Calls attention to the forthcoming special edition on the millennium. Introduces "Presentations," a new section of the journal devoted to discussion of labour and its various audiences. Highlights the symposium in honour of French labour historian Marianne Debouzy.

The article briefly reviews "Socialist Realist Painting," by Matthew Cullerne Bown, "The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years," edited by André Schiffrin, "On History," by Eric Hobsbawm, "Writing on the Line: 20th Century Working Class Women Writers," by Sarah Richardson, Mcrylyn Cherry, Sammy Palfrey, and Gail Chester, "Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor," by James C. Docherty, "Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage," edited by Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele, "Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice," edited by William K. Carroll, "Communism in America: A History in Documents," edited by Albert Fried, "Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America," by Bruce Laurie, "Hollywood as Historian: American Film in Cultural Context," revised edition, edited by Peter C. Rollins, "The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914," by R.T. Naylor, and "The Communist Manifesto," [150th anniversary edition, published by Monthly Review Press] by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The article briefly reviews "Possible Worlds: Experiments in British Columbia," by AH Brown, "The Crest of the Mountain: The Rise of CUPE Local Five in Hamilton," by Ed Thomas, "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920," by Abigail A. Van Slyck, "North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain," edited by William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanaretla, "Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change 1960s-1990s," edited by Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester, "Social Work in Practice," by Gerald A.J. de Montigny, "Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective," edited by Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith, "Miners, Unions, and Politics, 1910-1947," edited by lan Campbell, Nina Fishman and David Howell, "Gender and Class in Modern Europe," edited by Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose.

The article briefly reviews "Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930," by Lome Bruce, "The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England ," edited by Michael Twaddle, "Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance," by David F. Noble, "The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy," edited by Sanford M. Jacoby, "Labour's High Noon: The Government and the Economy, 1945-1951," edited by Jim Fyrth, "Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies," edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Willfried Spohn, "Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders," edited by Thomas Lane, "Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941," by David L. Hoffmann, "Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia," by John Mathews, and "Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico," edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent.

The article briefly reviews "Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada," 2nd edition, by Stephen McBridc and John Shields, "A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s," edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, and Robert Ventresca, "Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History," 3rd edition, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, "Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society," by Roberta Hamilton, "Canadian Political Parties," edited by Daniel Azoulay, "Introducing Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian History in English," by Brian Gobbett and Robert Irwin, "Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz," by Eric Hobsbawm, "Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era," by David Brody, "Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster," 2nd edition, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier, "Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience," edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie, "Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class," edited by Calvin Winslow, "Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism, and Social Revolution," edited by Jim Davis, Thomas Hirsch, and Michael Stack, "Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution," edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, "When We Were Good: The Folk Revival," by Robert Cantwell, "Swings and Misses: Moribund Labor Relations in Professional Baseball," by Kenneth M. Jennings, and "Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia," by Emily Toth.

See the Notes section for brief reviews published in volmes 33/34.

The article briefly reviews "Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modem Legal History," edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie, "Public Sector Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning!," edited by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson, "Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam ," by Eric Sager, "Canadian Women's Issues," 2 volumes. Volume I — "Strong Voices," by Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, and Philinda Masters; Volume II — "Bold Visions," by Ruth Roach Pierson and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "Strategies for the Year 2000: A Woman's Handbook," by Deborah Stienstra and Barbara Roberts, and Jean Barman, "Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia," edited by Neil Sutherland and J. Donald Wilson, "Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh," by Tara Singh Bains and Hugh Johnston, "Under the Northern Lights: My Memories of Life in the Finnish Community of Northern Ontario," by Edward W. Laine, edited by Nelma Sillanpaa, "Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940," by Lillian Petroff, "The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective," by John R. Baldwin, "Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America," edited by Maria Lorena Cook and Harry C. Katz, "From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas," edited by Mary Turner, "Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America," by Harvey J. Graff, "Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century," by Walter Licht, "Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America," by Paul Avrich, "The Populist Persuasion: An American History," by Michael Kazin, "American Labor in the Era of World War II," edited by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Cornford, "Aspects of Political Censorship, 1914-1918," by Tania Rose, "The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914," by Alan Mayne, "Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914," edited by Elinor A. Accampo, Rachel G. Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart, "A New International History of the Spanish Civil War," by Michael Alpert, "The Wartime System of Labor Service in Hungary: Varieties of Experience," edited by Randolph L. Braham, "Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study," by Walter Galenson, "Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge," edited by Jacques Bélanger, P.K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven, "Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries," edited by Stephen Frenkel and Jeffrey Harood, "Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector," edited by Paula B. Voos, "Women in the Latin American Development Process," edited by Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta Belen, and "Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora," by Sidney Lemelle and Robin D.G. Kelley,

The article briefly reviews "Canada and the United States," edited by John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall," "O'Callaghan: The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel," by Jack Verney, "'We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History," by Peggy Bristow et al., "Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in the History of Canadian Law," edited by Jim Phillips, Tina Loo, and Susan Lewthwaite, "Matters of the Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951," by A.B. McKillop, "R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The Early Years, 1919-1929," edited by Gregory S. Kealey and Reginald Whitaker, "Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America," by Wolfgang Binder, "The 'Lower Sort': Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800," by Billy G. Smith, "Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885," by Sally McMurry, "Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950," by Irving Richter, "Participant Observer: An Autobiography," by William Foote Whyte, "Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy," edited by Louise Lampbere, Alex Stepick, and Guillermo Grenier, "Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law," edited by Sheldon Friedman, et al., "The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport with a further selection of the author's work," edited by Malcolm Chase, "UK Labour Market: Comparative aspects and institutional Developments," edited by Ray Barrell, "Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis," edited by David M. Kotz, Terrence McDonough, and Michael Reich, "Women, Work, and Place," edited by Audrey Kobayashi, "Color, Class and Country: Experiences of Gender," edited by Gay Young and Bette J. Dickerson, "Making Labour Law in Australia: Industrial Relations, Politics, and Law," by Laura Bennett, and "Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class and Identity," edited by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Gregor Suny.

The article briefly reviews "'Just Call Me Mitch': The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn," by John T. Saywell, "Duff Pattullo of British Columbia," by Robin Fisher, "Social Democracy Without Illusions: Renewal of the Canadian Left," edited by John Richards, Robert D. Cairns, and Larry Pratt, " Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada," by J.M.S. Careless, "Women Who Taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching," edited by Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald, "Community Organization and the Canadian State," edited by Roxana Ng, Gillian Walker, and Jacob Muller, "More Than Our Jobs: An Anthology," edited by Glen Downie and Pam Tranfield, "Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitant in New England," by Felix Albert, introduced by Frances H. Early, "The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker," by Theresa Serber Malkiel, introduced by Francois Basch, "The Re-Education of the American Working Class," edited by Steven H. London, Elvira R. Tarr, and Joseph F. Wilson, "The Anti-Chinese Movement in California," by Clarence Sandmeyer, "The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market. 1880-1940," by Ton Korver, "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression," by Robin D.G. Kelley, "Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers," edited by Sanford M. Jacoby, "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South," by Richard A. Couto, "The 60s Experience: Hard Lessons About Modern America," by Edward P. Morgan, "The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason," by Larry Neal, "The Struggle For Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800-1840," by James A. Jaffe, "Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience, 1750-1900," by John Belchem, "The ILP on Clydeside, 1893-1932: From Foundation to Disintegration," edited by Alan McKinlay and R.J. Morris, "What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement," by Linda Swindells and Lisa Jardin, "Writing Women's History: International Perspectives," edited by Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall, "Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890," by Hilda Sabato, "Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy," by Dale W. Tomich, and "The Welfare State in Capitalist Society: Policies of Retrenchment and Maintenance in Europe, North America, and Australia," by Ramesh Mishra.

The article briefly reviews "Canadian and Australian Labour History," edited by Gregory S. Kealey and Greg Patmore, "Brother Max: Labour Organizer and Educator," by Max Swerdlow, edited by Gregory S. Kealey, "The New Era of Global Competition: State Policy and Market Power." edited by Daniel Drache and Meric S. Gertler, "Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties," by Paul Axelrod, "Careless at Work: Selected Canadian Historical Studies," by J.M.S. Careless, "The Political Economy of Manitoba," edited by Jim Silver and Jeremy Hull, "Debating Canada's Future: Views from the Left," edited by Simon Rosenblum and Peter Findlay, "Activists and Advocates: Toronto's Health Department, 1883-1983," by Heather MacDougall, "Perspectives on Canadian Economic Development: Class, Staples, Gender, and Elites," edited by Gordon Laxer, "The Upper Ottawa Valley to 1855," edited by Richard M. Reid, "Women and Social Change: Feminist Activism in Canada," edited by Jeri Dawn Wine and Janice L. Ristock, "Delivering Motherhood: Maternal Ideologies and Practices in the 19th and 20th Centuries," edited by Katherine Amup, Andrée Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson, "Radical Sociologists and the Movement: Experiences, Lessons, and Legacies," edited by Martin Oppenheimer, Martin J. Murray, and Rhonda F. Levine, "Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America; The Year Left, IV," edited by Mike Davis et al., "The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot: Springfield, Illinois, in 1908," by Roberta Senechal, "American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years," edited by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck, "Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations," edited by Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni, "Dependent Care and the Employee Benefits Package: Human Resources Strategies for the 1990," by LouEllen Crawford, "Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power," edited by Jill K. Conway, Susan C. Bourque, Joan Scott, "Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe," by David Herlihy, "Fin de Siècle Socialism; and other essays," by Martin Jay, "History and Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and the Interpretation of History," by Graeme Patterson, "Marx's Proletariat: The Making of a Myth," by David W. Lovell, and "Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion," by Abigail B. Bakan.

The article briefly reviews "Killing Time, Losing Ground: Experiences of Unemployment." by Patrick Burman, "423 Days on the Picket Line," by Raymond Léger, "Restructuring and Resistance: Perspectives From Atlantic Canada," edited by Bryant Fairley, Colin Leys, and James Sacouman, "Privatizing a Province: The New Right in Saskatchewan," by James Pittula and Ken Rasmussen, "Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace," edited by Janice Williamson and Deborah Gorham, "Race, Class, Gender: Bonds and Barriers," edited by Jesse Vorst, et al., "Co-operative Organizations and Canadian Society: Popular Institutions and the Dilemmas of Change," edited by Murray E. Fulton, "Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada, 1815-1840: 'Here We Are Laird Ourselves,'" by Peter Russell, "Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J.MS. Careless," edited by David Keane and Colin Read, "Essays in the History of Canadian Law, III: Nova Scotia," edited by Philip Girard and Jim Phillips, "Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923," by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, "In Whose Interest? Quebec's Caisses Populaires, 1900-1945," by Ronald Rudin, "Perspectives on American Labor History," edited by J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, "Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life," edited by Peter Oresick and Nicholas Coles, "Labor Divided; Race &. Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960," edited by Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, "Within the Shell of the Old: Essays on Workers' Self-Organization" and "George Rawick, 1930-1990: In Memoriam," edited by Don Fitz and David Roediger, "Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830-1940," edited by Kathryn Grover, "Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City," by Suzanne Mackenzie, "Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century," by Philip D. Curtin, "Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886," by Caroline Cahm, "Resistance and Revolution in Mediterranean Europe, 1939-1948," edited by Tony Judt, "The Dialectic of Change," by Boris Kagarlitsky, "The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations," edited by Mary Kaldor et al., "The Debate on Classes," by Erik Olin Wright et al., and "An Introduction to Labor Law," by Michael Evan Gold.

The article briefly reviews "Canadian Papers in Business History," edited by Peter Baskerville, "Challenging the Regional Stereotype: Essays on the 20th Century," by E.R. Forbes, "The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game," edited by Dianne Newell, " Arrangiarsi: The Italian Immigration Experience in Canada," edited by Roberto Perin and Franc Sturino, "One Man's War: Reflections of a Rough Diamond," by Milan (Mike) Bosnien, "Dissent and the State," edited by C.E.S. Franks, "Family Life Impacts of Offshore OU and Gas Employment," by Keith Storey, Mark Shrimpton, Jane Lewis and David Clark, "Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radicalism in the United States, 1790-1820," by Richard J. Twomey, "The Samuel Gompers Papers: v. 3 — Unrest and Depression. 1891-94," edited by Stuart J. Kaufman and Peter J. Albert, "Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl," by Hilda Scott Polacheck, "The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925," by David M. Emmons, "Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home," edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels, "Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination," edited by Karevn V. Hansen and Dene J. Philipson, "The Roots of Community Organizing, 1917-1939," edited by Neil Betten and Michael J. Austin, "Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South," edited by John Oaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham, "On the Line," by Harvey Swados, "Poletown: Community Betrayed," by Jeanie Wylie, "Occupation and Class Consciousness in America," by Douglas M. Eichar, "Planned to Death: The annihilation of a place called Howdendyke," by J. Douglas Porteous, "John Strachey," by Michael Newman, "A Secretary and a Cook: Challenging Women's Wages in the Courts of the United States and Great Britain," by Steven L. Willborn, "Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City," by Suzanne Mackenzie, "Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in International Perspective: Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," edited by Leopold Haimson and Charles Tilly, "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848," by Robin Blackburn, "Labor and Industrial Relations Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guide," by Michael C. Vocino, Jr., and Lucille W. Cameron, "Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics," by Richard B. Freeman, and "For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW," by Andrew Metcalfe.

The article briefly reviews "Working People and Hard Times: Canadian Perspectives," edited by Robert Argue, Charlene Gannage, and D.W. Livingstone, "Social Movements/Social Change: The Politics and Practice of Organizing," edited by Frank Cunningham, Sue Findlay, Mar-lene Kadar, Alan Lennon, and Ed Silva, "Life Spaces: Gender, Household, Employment," edited by Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy, "Changing Patterns: Women in Canada," edited by Sandra Burt, Lorraine Code, and Lindsay Dorney, "Cape Breton Lives: A Book from Cape Breton's Magazine," edited by Ronald Caplan, "Feudal Society and Colonization: The Historiography of New France," by Roberta Hamilton, "Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933," by Donald Finlay Davis, "In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Immigrants, Workers, and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920," edited by Marianne Debouzy, "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair, introduction by James R. Barrett, "Sealskin and Shoddy: Working Women in American Labor Press Fiction, 1870-1920," edited by Ann Schofield, "Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940," by Donna L. Van Raaphorst, "Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: Interim Report" by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, "A Revolutionary of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker," edited by Patrick G. Coy, "Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars," edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jensen, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz, "Women in the First Capitalist Society: Experiences in Seventeenth-Century England," by Margaret George, "Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience, 1819-1914," by Frank Neal, "Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France: Work, Health and Education Among the Classes Populaires," by Colin Heywood, "Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932," by Hiroaki Kuromiya, and "House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro," by Sandra Lauderdale Graham.

The editor announces his retirement and reflects on his longstanding connection with the journal, first as a contributor, then as editor. Expresses appreciation for the work and support of others. Welcomes members of the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies to the editorial board as well as incoming editor Sean Cadigan.

The article briefly reviews "The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms: From Consent to Coercion Revisited," by Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz, "Downturn: The Origins of the Employers ' Offensive and the Tasks for Socialists," pamphlet by Paul Kellogg, "The Chinese in Canada," by Peter S. Li, "The Politics of Community Services: Immigrant Women, Class and State," by Roxana Ng, "The Bank of Upper Canada," [edited with an introduction] by Peter Baskerville, "Red Moon Over Spain: Canadian Media Reaction to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," by Mary Biggar Peck, "Good Girls Bad Girls: Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face," edited by Laurie Bell, "Work and Labor in Early America," by Stephen Innes, "Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830," by Robert E. Cray, Jr., "The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-1861," by Brian C. Mitchell, "German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I," edited by Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz, "Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980," by Dennis C. Dickerson, " Looking Backward, 1988-1888; Essays on Edward Bellamy," edited by Daphne Patai, "The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film," by Kay Sloan, "Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940," edited by Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz, "Equal or Different: Women's Politics, 1800-1914," edited by Jane Rendall, "War, Law, and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State Regulation, and the Unions, 1915-1921," by Gerry R. Rubin, "Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926," by Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, "Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice," edited by Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp, "The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde," by Morris Slavin, "The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below," edited by Daniel H. Kaiser, "International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class," edited by Rosalind E. Boyd, Robin Cohen, and Peter C.W. Gutkind, "Trade Unions in Communist States," by Alex Pravda, Blair A. Ruble, and "State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of Feminism," by Murray Knuttila.

The article briefly reviews "The Illustrated History of Canada," edited by Craig Brown, "The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada, 1987," by Pradeep Kumar, et al., "Work and New Technologies: Other Perspectives," edited by Chris DeBresson, et al., "Sources in the Law Library of McGill University for a Reconstruction of the Legal Culture of Quebec, 1760-1890," by G. Blaine Baker, et al., "Saskatchewan Workers: A List of Sources," by Robin Wylie, "Essays on New France," by W.J. Eccles, "Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island," by J.M. Bumsted, "Unemployment: International Perspectives," edited by Morley Gunderson, Noah Meltz, and Sylvia Ostry, "Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860," by Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar, "The Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to1896," by Friedrich A. Sorge, translated by Kai Schoenhals, "The Cold War Against Labor," v. 1-2, edited by Ann Fagan Ginger and David Christiano, "Black American Politics: From the Washington Marches to Jesse Jackson," by Manning Marable, "'Slaves of the Depression': Workers' Letters About Life on the Job," edited by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, "Reasons for Pardoning the Haymarket Anarchists," by John P. Atgeld; "Memoirs of a Wobbly," by Henry E. McGuckin; and "The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America," by Upton Sinclair, "Politics and People in Revolutionary England," edited by Colin Jones et al., "The Tories and the People, 1880-1935," by Martin Pugh, "Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth-Century Towns, " edited by R.J. Morris, "The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class," edited by Janet Wolff and John Seed, "1919: Britain on the Brink of Revolution," by Chanie Rosenberg, "The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century," by Daniel Roche, "Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding," by William M. Reddy, " Festival of the Oppressed: Solidarity, Reform and Revolution in Poland, 1980-1981," by Colin Barker, "Latin American Labor Organizations," edited by Gerald Michael Greenfield and Sheldon L. Maram, and "Theories of the Labor Movement," edited by Simeon Larson and Bruce Nissen.

As Canadian workers, the labour movement, and scholars confront a new millennium, new opportunities and new challenges loom large. This volume, which mirrors Labour/Le Travail Volume 46, commissions a number of articles addressing themes that will be of consequence as we enter the 21st century. The articles that appear in this collection are authored by some of the more prominent social scientists working in the field of labour-related studies, among them Desmond Morton, Ian McKay, Joan Sangster, Cynthia Comacchio, David Frank, and Jacques Rouillard. Their writing appears in the book, grouped in a series of thematic sections: institutions and ideas; gender, sexuality and family; Quebec and the national question; culture; and workers and the state. Topics such as Canadian socialism, pivotal events such as the 1949 Asbestos strike, and important cultural undertakings, such as working-class representations on film and video, are addressed. Historiographical controversies and debates associated with the relations of women’s and working-class histories or different generational styles associated with the presentation of labour’s past are surveyed. This is an issue all interested in Canadian society and its development will not want to miss. --Publisher's description. Contents: Editor's Introduction: "Labour Confronts the Millennium" -- Some Millennial Reflections on the State of Canadian Labour History / Desmond Morton -- Industrial Relations at the Millennium: Beyond Employment? / Anthony Giles -- For a New Kind of History: A Reconnaissance of 100 Years of Canadian Socialism / Ian McKay -- Feminism and the Making of Canadian Working-Class History: Exploring the Past, Present and Future / Joan Sangster -- "The History of Us": Social Science, History, and the Relations of Family in Canada / Cynthia Comacchio -- Bumping and Grinding On the Line: Making Nudity Pay / Becki L. Ross -- Pluralism or Fragmentation?: The Twentieth-Century Employment Law Regime in Canada / Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker -- La grève de l'amiante de 1949 et le projet de réforme de l'entreprise. Comment le patronat a défendu son droit de gérance / Jacques Rouillard -- Political Economy and the Canadian Working Class: Marxism or Nationalist Reformism? / Murray E.G. Smith -- "Rapprocher les lieux du pouvoir": The Quebec Labour Movement and Quebec Sovereigntism, 1960-2000 / Ralph P. Güntzel -- Labour/Left Memorabilia, 1880-1980: A Photographic Representation / Karl Beveridge -- Short Takes: The Canadian Worker on Film / David Frank -- Canadian Universities, Academic Freedom, Labour, and the Left / Michiel Horn.

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.