Journal articles

This database consists of articles on labour and topics related to this issue and some reviews. Click here for a list of the journals included in this database. We are still working to add a larger variety of journals and reviews from different countries and continents.

Title Author Year Journal Onlinesort descending
A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brodwyn Fischer Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008 vii + 464 pp. Velasco 2011 Labor
The Fisherman's Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution Christopher P. Magra New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 x + 243 pp. Levy 2011 Labor
Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882–1923 Frederick Douglass Opie Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009 xii + 145 pp. Striffler 2011 Labor
Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868 – 1959 Gillian McGillivray Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009 xxvi + 386 pp. Nadel 2011 Labor
Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes S. Sándor John Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009 xiii + 317 pp. Langer 2011 Labor
Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol Kelly Lytle Hernandez Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010 xvi + 311 pp. Ramírez 2011 Labor
American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology by Nicholas Coles and Janet Zandy, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Chassler 2011 Labor
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 Cassanello Robert and Davis Colin J., editors Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009 x + 2009 pp. Noll 2012 Labor
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill Gabriela Soto Laveaga Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009 xiii + 299 pp. Konefal 2012 Labor
This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil Wendy Wolford Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010 xii + 281 pp. Welch 2012 Labor
Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present Leon Fink Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 2011 288 pp. Vickers 2012 Labor
Union Job Protection Equals Discrimination. Moreno 2012 Labor
The Feminized Labor of Sex Work: Two Decades of Feminist Historical and Ethnographic Research. Dewey 2012 Labor
Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011 328 pp. Henderson 2012 Labor
Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Michelle L. Dion. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 vii + 310 pp. Sanders 2012 Labor
Um nordeste em São Paulo: trabalhadores migrantes em São Miguel Paulista, 1945 – 66 by Paulo Fontes. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2008 346 pp. Brodwyn 2012 Labor
I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Robert L. Smale. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 x + 243 pp. John 2012 Labor
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community by Tamara Mose Brown. New York: New York University Press, 2011 xii + 212 pp. Krissoff Boehm 2012 Labor
Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011 xiv + 236 pp. Buckley 2012 Labor
No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011 x + 333 pp. Cohen 2012 Labor
Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776 – 1810 by Lyman L. Johnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011 xiv + 410 pp. Pompeian 2012 Labor
The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil by Thomas D. Rogers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010 xvi + 302 pp. Boyer 2012 Labor
Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II by Emilio Zamora. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009 xviii + 318 pp. Weber 2012 Labor
The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State. Paulo Drinot. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011 xi + 310 pp. Gootenberg 2013 Labor
Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry. Peter Benson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012 xiv + 323 pp. Bennett 2013 Labor

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