Reviews in Labor Studies

Buckingham, Peter H.. "Red Tom" Hickey: The Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781623497552.

Reviewed by Joshua Kluever (Binghamton University)
Published on H-Socialisms (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Sean Cashbaugh (Princeton University)

Cole, Peter. Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. Working Class in American History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 310 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780252083761.$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780252042072.

Reviewed by Robert Caldwell (The University at Buffalo-SUNY)
Published on H-Socialisms (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Graeme Pente (Independent Scholar)

Philip B. Minehan. Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Illustrations. 288 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2.

Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2023)
Commissioned by Philipp Reick (Aarhus University, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies)

Ian Allinson. Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work (Wildcat). London: Pluto Press, 2022. xviii + 253 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7453-4781-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7453-4782-0. 

Joshua Cohen. British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945-79. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series. London: Routledge, 2023. xii + 168 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-03-207013-1.

Reviewed by Shane Burley (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Socialisms (May, 2023)
Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Charlton W. Yingling. Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 337 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2609-1.

Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards (Francis Marion University)
Published on H-Slavery (May, 2023)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Michaël Roy. Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture. Translated by Susan Pickford. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Illustrations. xi + 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33840-4.

Reviewed by Michael Emett (University of South Carolina)
Published on H-Slavery (April, 2023)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Winston James. Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 464 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-13593-1. 

Reviewed by Jasmine Calver (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Socialisms (March, 2023)
Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

John Michael Yeoman. Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890–1915. Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series. Chico: AK Press, 2022. Charts, maps, tables. 300 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84935-458-5. 

Natalia Tsvetkova. The Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945-1990. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 264 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-47178-8; $132.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-47177-1.

Reviewed by Nicholas Seay (Ohio State University)
Published on H-Socialisms (December, 2022)
Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)