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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 "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 "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 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.

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

The article reviews the book, "All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement," by Carlotta R. Anderson.

The article reviews the book, "Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist," by Christopher Phelps.

The article reviews the book, "Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster," by Edward P. Johanningsmeier.

This speculative essay presents a preliminary statement on the paradoxical character of 19th-century class formation in the two white settler dominions of Canada and Australia. Outposts of empire, these social formations were early regarded with disdain, the one a classic mercantilist harvester of fish, fur, and wood, the other a dumping ground for convicts. By the mid-to-late 19th-century, however, Canada and Australia were the richest of colonies. Within their distinctive cultures and political economies, both supposedly dominated by staples, emerged working classes that were simultaneously combatative and accommodated. By the 1880s impressive organizational gains had been registered by labour in both countries, but the achievements of class were conditioned by particular relations of fragmentation, including those of 'race' and gender.

The article reviews the books, "True Government by Choice Men? Inspection, Education, and State Formation in Canada West," by Bruce Curtis, and "Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Canada," edited by Allan Greer and Ian Radforth.

The article reviews the book, "Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States," by Karen Orren.

The article reviews the book "Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America," by Michael Denning.

This article reviews the book, "The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century," by David Bensman.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada," by Ian Angus.

This article reviews the book, "Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884," by Daniel J. Walkowitz.

This paper examines charivaris and whitecapping in 19th-century North America. Establishing the presence of the charivan/shivaree over the course of the century and of whitecapping in the years 1885-1905, the study examines two particular ritualistic forms of enforcing community standards and behaviour. Commonly directed against unnatural marriage, sexual offenders, wife beaters, and those who defied acceptable standards of behaviour (including employers and strikebreakers), charivaris and whitecapping posed the threatening order of custom against the rule of law. As such, they challenged, implicitly if not explicitly, a developing bourgeois hegemony. In studying them, we learn much about society and culture, order and disorder, in the 19th-century past, forces crucial to an understanding of the plebeian and working-class communities.

Provides an analysis of craftsmen throughout history and their connections to social and political radicalism. Examines the influence of skilled craftsmen on the trade union movement as well as the shifts the craft culture underwent over time. Argues that the craft tradition had a significant influence on the labour movement. Concludes by calling upon more historians to appreciate the social and cultural lives of these men and women, so as to uncover their hidden or unrecognized contributions to the modern world.

Daniel Drache has moved me to do what I have always avoided: respond to those who have distanced themselves from the interpretive direction of what they almost uniformly refer to as "the new labour history". The appearance of his article, "The Formation and Fragmentation of the Canadian Working Class: 1820-1920", in Studies in Political Economy no. 15 (Fall, 1984) - supposedly a socialist review that has, in the past, offered Marxist labour histories a warm, if critical, reception - was, for me, the last straw. --Author's introduction

Working Class Experience is a sweeping and sympathetic study of the development of the Canadian working class since 1800. Beginning with a substantial and provocative introduction that discusses the historiography of the Canadian working class, the book goes on to establish a general framework for analysis of what ultimately is a social history of Canada. Dividing the years into seven periods in the evolution of class struggle, it beings each chapter with an assessment of that period's prevailing economic and social context, followed by an examination of the many factors affecting the working class during that period. Written in a colourful and sometimes irreverent style, Working Class Experience focuses on the processes by which working people moved, and were moved, off the land and into the factories and other workplaces during the Industrial and post-Industrial Revolutions in Canada. Drawing on much recent work on contemporary capitalism, Working Class Experience offers a significant explanation of the malaise in current labour and management relations and speculates on its significance for progressive change in Canadian Life. --Publisher's description