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Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 334 pp. $29.00 cloth; $9.95 paper. Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program. By Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence, D. Quinn Mills, Richard E. Walton. New York: The Free Press, 1984. xi, 209 pp. $19.95. Employment Security in Action: Strategies That Work. By Jocelyn F. Gutchess. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985. x, 181 pp. $25.00 Ethnicity and the Work Force, Edited by Winston A. Van Home. Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin System American Ethnic Studies Coordinating Committee/Urban Corridor Consortium, 1985. iv, 222 pp. $16.00 cloth; $8.95 paper. The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century. By David Bensman. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xi‐xxi, 240 pp. $22.50. The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xxxi, 254 pp. $26.50. From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820–1980. By Lynn Y. Weiner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xii, 187pp. $17.95. From Home To Office: U.S. Women At Work, 1870–1930. By Elyce J. Rotella. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. 233pp. $31.95; Wartime Women. By Karen Anderson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981. 198pp. $22.95. Village and Seaport: Migration and Society in Eighteenth Century Massachusetts. By Douglas Lamar Jones. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1981. xx, 167pp. $19.95. The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution: 1763–1812. By Charles G. Steffen. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. xv, 296 pp. $24.95. Men of the Steel Rails: Workers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 1869–1900. By James H. Ducker. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. xii, 219pp. $17.95. Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865–1915. By Sidney L. Harring. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983. xii, 301 pp. $30.00. The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak. Edited by Katie Louchheim. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xxi, 368 pp. $7.95, paper. Mike Quill — Himself. By Shirley Quill. New York: Devin‐Adair, 1984. xi, 329 pp. $17.95. Rebuilding The Pulp and Paper Workers’ Union, 1933–1941. By Robert H. Zie‐ger. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984. xii, 242 pp. $19.95. Equal Employment Opportunity: A Comparative Micro‐Analysis of Boston and Houston. By Robert C. Smith. Conservation of Human Resources Series, #16. Totowa, NJ: Allan Held, Osmun, 1982. xiii, 94 pp. $18.50. From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience. By Dino Cinel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. viii, 347 pp. $21.00. Socialism and Nationalism. Edited by Eric Cahm and Vladimir Claude Fisera. 3 vols. (v. 1, 116pp, 1978; v. 2, 132pp, 1979; v. 3, 129pp, 1980). Nottingham, UK: Spokesman, £2.50 per volume, paper. European Women on the Left: Socialism, Feminism, and the Problems Faced by Political Women — 1880 to the Present. By Jane Slaughter and Robert Kern. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981, vi, 245 pp. $27.50. The Jacobin Crisis in the French Revolution: The First Years. By Michael L. Kennedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xii, 381 pp. $27.00. Workers and Communists in France: From Popular Front to Euro‐Communism. By George Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xvi, 347 pp. $30.00. Wilhelm Liebknecht and the Founding of the German Social Democratic Party. By Raymond H. Dominick III. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xiv, 551 pp. $25.00. Arbeitswelt an der Wasserkante: Sozialgeschichte der Hamburger Hafenarbeiter, 1886–1914. By Michael Griittner. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1984. 331 pp. DM 68.00. Russian Bolshevism and British Labor, 1917–1921. By Morton H. Cowden. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. viii, 238 pp. $29.95. All That Our Hands Have Done: A Pictorial History of the Hamilton Workers. By Craig Heron, Shea Hoffmitz, Wayne Roberts, and Robert Storey. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1981. 181 pp. $14.95 paper. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832–1972: a case study of foreign domination. By Sally F. Zerker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. 397 pp. $40.00 cloth; $14.95 paper. Essays on the Mexican Revolution: Revisionist Views of the Leaders. Edited by George Wolfskill and Douglas W. Richmond. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1981. xxi, 136 pp. $10.00. Shanties From The Seven Seas. Collected by Stan Hugill. London, Boston, Melbourne: Henley, 1984. xviii, 610 pp. No Price Indicated.