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Volume 48 - Issue 2 - June 1988

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Reviews of Books

Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer. By W. Ross Yates. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1987. Pp. 413. $49.50.
Thomas C. Cochran
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Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850–1920. By Mark J. Stern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 172. $39.50.
Richard H. Steckel
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Urban Elders: Family, Work, and Welfare among Boston's Aged, 1890-1950. By Brian Gratton. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 232. $32.95.
Roger L. Ranson
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03 March 2009, pp. 493-494
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Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present. By Judith Ann Trolander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 300. $37.50.
Mary J. Oates
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Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham. Edited by John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 624. $45.00.
Dacid F. Weiman
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Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00.
Price V. Fishback
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St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Pp. xvii, 519. $30.00.
Stanley L. Engerman
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The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniack. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. iv, 194. $19.95.
David Buffum
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From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. By Louise Lamphere. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 390. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.
Lynn Weiner
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The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95.
Gavin Wright
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Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. By James R. Barrett. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 290. $24.95.
Daniel Nelson
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The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. By Anne Huber Tripp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 317. $29.95.
Melvyn Dubofsky
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New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 241. $24.95.
Michael Weinstein
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City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City. By Mark H. Maier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 221. $26.00 cloth, $12.00 paper.
Howard M. Gitelman
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. By Patricia Nelson Limerick New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987. Pp. 396. $17.95.
Gerld D. Nash
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The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Sociecinomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860–1906. By Terrence J. McDonald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 356.
Christine Meisner Rosen
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03 March 2009, pp. 508-510
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Los Angeles and the Automoble: The Making of the Modern City. By Scott L. Bottles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 302. $25.00.
David J. St. Clair
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The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 228. $30.00.
Kenneth A. Snowden
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In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business institution, 1816–1876. By Brian Young. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 295. $30.00.
Rick Szostak
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Wood and Water: The Story of Seaboard Lumber and Shipping. By E. G. Perrault. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Pp. 320. $24.95.
William L. Marr
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Reviews of Books

Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer. By W. Ross Yates. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1987. Pp. 413. $49.50.

Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850–1920. By Mark J. Stern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 172. $39.50.

Urban Elders: Family, Work, and Welfare among Boston's Aged, 1890-1950. By Brian Gratton. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 232. $32.95.

Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present. By Judith Ann Trolander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 300. $37.50.

Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham. Edited by John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 624. $45.00.

Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00.

St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Pp. xvii, 519. $30.00.

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniack. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. iv, 194. $19.95.

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. By Louise Lamphere. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 390. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95.

Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. By James R. Barrett. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 290. $24.95.

The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. By Anne Huber Tripp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 317. $29.95.

New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 241. $24.95.

City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City. By Mark H. Maier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 221. $26.00 cloth, $12.00 paper.

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. By Patricia Nelson Limerick New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987. Pp. 396. $17.95.

The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Sociecinomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860–1906. By Terrence J. McDonald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 356.

Los Angeles and the Automoble: The Making of the Modern City. By Scott L. Bottles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 302. $25.00.

The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 228. $30.00.

In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business institution, 1816–1876. By Brian Young. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 295. $30.00.

Wood and Water: The Story of Seaboard Lumber and Shipping. By E. G. Perrault. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Pp. 320. $24.95.

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