Books reviewed

Abstract

Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary. By Carolyn Ashbaugh. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1976. 288 pp. $10.00. Working Class Women and Grass‐Roots Politics. By Kathleen McCourt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. 256 pp. $10.00. Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914. By Robert Higgs. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1977. x, 208 pp. $15.00. Industrialization and the American Labor Movement: 1850–1900. By Irwin Yellowitz. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1977. 183 pp. $12.50. Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852–1900; The Evolution of an Industrial Environment. By David L. Lightner. New York: Arno Press, 1977. x, 437 pp. $20.00. Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885–1915. By Charles Pierce LeWarne. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1975. x, 325 pp. $15.00. Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830–1910. By Carol E. Hoffecker. Published for the Eleutherian Mills‐Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, 1974. xvi, 187 pp. $10.00. Madison's Battery Workers, 1934–1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587. By Robert H. Zieger. New York: Cornell University Press, 1977. xiv, 126 pp. $4.50. John L. Lewis, a Biography. By Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine. New York: Quadrangle, 1977. xvii, 619 pp. $20.00. Black Workers in White Unions: Job Discrimination in the United States. By William B. Gould. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. 506 pp. $20.00. Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919. By A. Ross McCormack. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977. xi, 228 pp. $C 4.95. The Growth of British Industry. By A. E. Musson. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978. 396 pp. $29.50. Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth‐Century English Working Class. By Francis Hearn. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978, viii, 309 pp. $17.95. The Book of the XV Brigade: Records of British, American, Canadian and Irish Volunteers in the XV International Brigade in Spain, 1936–1938. Edited by Frank Ryan. Newcastle‐on Tyne: Frank Graham, c. 1976. 308 pp. £6.00. The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century. By Georges Duby. Translated by Howard B. Clarke. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. 250 pp. $5.95, paperback. El Movimiento Obrero y la Politico en Mexico, 1910–1929. By Barry Carr. Mexico City: Editorial Melo, 1976. Vol. 1, 222 pp.; vol. 2, 206 pp. No price given.