Olivier Zunz Research Articles

Civil Institutions and Democratic Life in the United States. In Honor of Olivier Zunz. Introduction

The question of what role civil institutions play in democratic life in the United States weaves through the entire work of historian Olivier Zunz. In honor of his long career, this special issue engages with Zunz’s contributions to our understanding of this crucial feature of American social and political history, its five essays tackling his insights in original ways and opening new directions for research. To open this issue, the introduction links Zunz’s scholarship to Alexis de Tocqueville’s thoughts on democracy and the role of voluntary associations, retraces Zunz’s engagement with Tocqueville’s work, and ponders the relevance and limits of this theme when analyzing the United States today.

Tocqueville’s Recollections in Trump’s America. Review of: Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

<i>Tocqueville’s</i> Recollections <i>in Trump’s America. Review of:</i> Alexis de Tocqueville, <i>Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath</i>. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Kathleen D. McCarthy (bio) Olivier Zunz. Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. x + 381 pp. Notes and index. $29.95. Philanthropy is a pervasive presence in American life. Giving to United Way campaigns, university fundraising drives, foundation grants—even putting money in the basket at religious services—all constitute acts of philanthropy. The institutions that these activities help to support are also familiar features in American cities and towns, from universities and hospitals to Boy Scout troops. Until the end of the nineteenth century, the term provided an umbrella for both giving and voluntarism, encompassing a wide array of social reform movements as well as charitable institutions. Since the Gilded Age, however, it has increasingly been associated with large gifts from the extraordinarily rich—men like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, George Soros, and Bill Gates—despite statistical evidence that Americans give fairly generously at all income levels, and that the big foundations of the Rockefellers and Gateses constitute only a small segment of American generosity. Olivier Zunz sets out to chart this massive infrastructure in his history of twentieth-century American philanthropy. In keeping with shifting definitions, his focus is on cash rather than volunteer time, blending the history of foundations with mass-based fundraising campaigns such as the United Way and the March of Dimes. In the process, he manages to convey a broad sweep of philanthropic practices, encompassing both the very rich and donors of far more modest means. The book’s great strength is the way in which he links these activities to federal domestic and foreign policymaking, underscoring philanthropy’s political roles with a bold clarity. He begins with some fairly familiar material on the first foundations, trekking through such well-known terrain as Andrew Carnegie’s role in launching the academic pension system TIAA-CREF, Rockefeller’s hookworm campaigns, and major gifts for the creation of modern universities at century’s end, which he describes as the “direct conversion of massive capitalist wealth into public assets, under the guidance of the wealthy themselves and their wise advisors.” (p. 9). The growth in the number of millionaires in the years bracketing the turn of the century was stunning, rising from approximately 100 in the 1870s [End Page 306] to over 40,000 by 1916. Only a tiny fraction of these fabulously wealthy individuals created foundations or universities, an obvious fact that nonetheless could have been underscored more vividly. Zunz also occasionally credits this handful of institutions with more power than they actually had, as when he claims that the work of the Peabody Fund during Reconstruction played “an instrumental role in promoting national unification” [p. 10], and that post-Reconstruction philanthropy served as a template for “lifting parts of Latin America, Asia, and Africa out of poverty, disease and ignorance” [p. 11]. The second chapter surveys a number of mass-based, federated fund drives between the 1910s and the 1930s—from Liberty Bonds and wartime relief to the Red Cross, United Way, antituberculosis campaigns, and the March of Dimes—linking them to rising income levels and a longstanding tradition of generosity that includes laborers as well as the very rich. For Zunz, this “people’s philanthropy . . . engaged the large American middle and working classes in their own welfare” (p. 44). His analysis might have been sharpened by placing this kind of mass-based giving in a longer historical perspective, linking it to patterns of religiously inspired giving via the Benevolent Empire organizations of the early nineteenth century. Americans learned to give small amounts on a regular basis early on; twentieth-century fund drives built on these patterns and secularized them, providing funds on a new scale. Philanthropy in America picks up as it moves into more political issues, which are the heart of the book’s strength. The relationship between philanthropy and the state is constantly changing, involving trends that Zunz dissects with considerable élan. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the courts, legislation, and federal policies pushed philanthropy to be apolitical, focusing on education rather than advocacy or direct political action, themes reiterated in the 1919 Treasury regulations, the Revenue Act of 1934...

Philanthropy in America: A History

Philanthropy in America: A History. Written by Olivier Zunz, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2012. 396 pp. ISBN: 9780691128368 (cloth). Philanthropy: Not made in America but remade decidedly American

Liberalism in Nineteenth–Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. By Alan S. Kahan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. viii + 239 pp. £55.00. ISBN 1 4039 1174 6.

‘From the beginning, nineteenth-century European liberalism was defined by its contradictions.’ Thus begins Alan Kahan’s ambitious study of the rise and decline of nineteenth-century European liberalism. Kahan, who teaches at Florida International University, is the author of a stimulating and solid comparative study entitled Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville (1992). He has translated the whole of Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution; his edition, which appeared with the University of Chicago Press in 1998 and 2001, included Tocqueville’s notes and chapter sketches on the Revolution and Napoleon. This was somewhat of a coup, given that Kahan’s translation appeared three years before the originals first saw the light of day in the third volume of the Pléiade edition of Tocqueville’s works. And he has also edited, with Olivier Zunz, a very handy Tocqueville Reader (2002). In Kahan’s...

Towards a new science of man rockefeller philanthropy and the renovation of the human sciences in the United States

Abstract In recent decades, scholars have examined in some detail the immense influence exerted on American intellectual life—and especially on the human sciences—by philanthropic foundations during the 20th century.1 Scholars as diverse as Olivier Zunz, Lily Kay, Donald Fisher, Judith Sealander, Martin Bulmer, and John M. Jordan have explored the impact of the foundations on the social and life sciences in the U.S. In doing so, they have demonstrated that the Rockefeller philanthropies—particularly the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the General Education Board, and the Rockefeller Foundation—played an especially significant role with regard to the elaboration and promotion of the human sciences.2

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction (review)

Reviewed by: Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction Michael Allen (bio) Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction. By Götz Aly and Susanne Heim, trans. A. G. Blunden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 378. $29.95. Few books have had as much influence on Holocaust studies as Götz Aly and Susanne Heim's Vordenker der Vernichtung, published in 1991 by Fischer Verlag. That book has an almost untranslatable title: Vordenker might be roughly rendered as "pre-meditators of genocide" but it also connotes "predecessors," even "forefathers." Aly and Heim were referring to those who laid the intellectual groundwork for the genocidaires of the Nazi regime. Now their book is available in English, under the title Architects of Annihilation, at a time when the new scholarship that Vordenker der Vernichtung helped to inspire has largely corroborated it. [End Page 449] Before 1991, much scholarship depicted Germans' detachment from and indifference to National Socialism, focused on "resistance," or identified an "anti-modernism" in Nazi ideology. Institutional histories presented dimly fathomable bureaucratic institutions filled with "technocratic" functionaries. There was a consensus that "ordinary" Germans had become tools in the Holocaust only unwittingly, and that modern organizations and technology had compelled them to do so even as Nazi ideologues remained implacably opposed to modernity itself. Aly and Heim exposed the middling echelons of the Nazi intelligentsia who actively assisted the regime. The English title is therefore misleading, for the authors do not really address architects; this is merely a metaphor. They do tell of academic research institutes that dotted Germany and its colonies in the East. Architects took part in these alongside geographers, sociologists, historians, economists, and other specialists. They worked in interdisciplinary teams and prepared reports on the ideal population densities necessary for the German transformation of Europe. In the process, they treated native peoples of Poland and the Soviet Union like so many chits in a vast shell game. It is illuminating to read Aly and Heim's work in conjunction with contemporary history of technology and business. In his 2002 book Why the American Century? Olivier Zunz describes an "institutional matrix" that was peculiar, in his mind, to the rise of modern America. By this he means the interpenetration of academic research, corporations, and the state. Only in America, he argues, did academicians at all levels depart from traditions of "pure research" and place their creativity at the disposal of corporate development or civil service. For their part, American corporations turned more extensively than anywhere else to the pursuit of knowledge-based industries. Last, more so than in the class-bound civil service bureaucracies of Europe, the United States government took a leading role in facilitating the interconnection between the two. What many people deride as the "military-industrial-university" complex, Zunz argues, deserves a closer look. Where else does one find Ivy League sociologists working with both the military and Fortune 500 companies on the invention of survey research as the basis of modern advertising and consumer product development? That improbable fusion did take place in the first half of the "American century," from 1900 to 1950. But, for all that this was unique, Zunz does note that Germany displayed the most similarity to the United States of all European countries. As Wolfgang König has shown, Germany developed technical and commercial schools in a multilayered web, tightly coupled to all levels of industrial research. Germany had indeed invented the modern polytechnic school in the late nineteenth century. Meanwhile corporations such as Bayer and BASF practically invented the corporate research laboratory. Professors sent their recent Ph.D.'s to staff the management of knowledge-based corporations, and corporations funded the professors' research. [End Page 450] Interconnections between civil servants, bankers, and corporations are also well known. By the eve of the First World War this institutional matrix had catapulted Germany to the foremost rank among industrial powers. Thus Aly and Heim, along with Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch, and others who have come after them, demonstrate that German scientists and social scientists in the Third Reich developed intensifying connections between modern institutions of state, industry, and the production of knowledge. They...

Tocqueville: Frenchman for all Seasons?

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xciii, 722 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America and Two Essays on America, translated by Gerald Bevan, with an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick and Notes by Jeff Seliger. New York, N.Y., Penguin, 2003. lii, 896 pp. $10.00 U.S. (paper). Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, Vol.One, edited and with an introduction and critical apparatus by Francois Furet and Francoise Melonio; translated by Alan S. Kahan. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi, 451 pp. $32.50 U.S. (cloth). Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, by Sheldon Wolin. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001. viii, 650 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). The Tocqueville Reader A Life in Letters and Politics, edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan. Malden, MA, Oxford, Melbourne, and Berlin, Blackwell Publishing, 2002. xviii, 358 pp. $24.95 U.S. (paper). Alexis de Tocqueville, Writings on Empire and Slavery, edited and translated by Jennifer Pitts. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxxviii, 277 pp. $47.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper). Now that Marx is said to have become part of history, academics, intellectuals, pundits, politicians, and journalists around the world are paying increasing attention to the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville. The French aristocrat's Democracy in America had enjoyed enormous popularity--especially the first volume, published in the United States in 1838, in which Jacksonian Americans could see themselves as a vital, egalitarian, God-fearing people in the vanguard of the inevitable progress of liberty and equality and as a model for the (civilized) world. (The second volume, which appeared in 1840, engendered less interest, in part because it was not as readable--more theoretical and also less flattering, paying more attention to the downside of the democratic revolution than the first volume.) By 1848--the annus mirabilis which also saw the publication of the Communist Manifesto--Democracy had gone through twelve editions. But after the Civil War Americans turned to other commentators that seemed more appropriate for addressing new concerns such as industrialization--excepting the contrarian Henry Adams who professed great admiration for Tocqueville, perhaps because he was out of step with the temper of his rimes. Not until 1888 did his fellow Americans find a worthy successor to Tocqueville with the publication of James Bryce's The American Commonwealth which was less visionary and more pragmatic than Democracy in America, more Anglo Saxon and less Gallic (as they would have put it), and for those reasons now virtually forgotten. (1) The historians of the following generation, notably Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard, likewise felt little need for Tocqueville, perhaps because his emphasis on went counter to their belief that American history was driven by conflict. Reigning supreme for two generations, the Progressive historians were not eclipsed until the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, and especially the Cold War, which led Americans to reconsider their identity as separate from Europe and defined by a consensus vis-a-vis totalitarianism. Tocqueville, they discovered, proved particularly useful in this enterprise. It was fortuitous that historian George Wilson Pierson had already prepared the groundwork with his path-breaking Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (1938). A revised edition of the classic Henry Reeve/Francis Bowen translation by Phillips Bradley, which appeared in 1945, (2) became the preferred source for a number of interpretations of American history taking Tocqueville as their inspiration--notably David Riesman, whose famous Lonely Crowd (1950) (3) bears an allusive Tocquevillian title, Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), and Marvin Meyers' The Jacksonian Persuasion (1957)--are representative texts of the new school. …

Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ix + 254 pp. $24.00 cloth.

Ever since its birth as a nation, America has contrasted itself to the image of Europe. Intellectuals from both sides of the Atlantic have contributed to the myth of the New World and tried to express the essence of America's “exceptionalism.”

Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century.

Journal Article Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 376 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-520-20441-7) Get access Olivier Zunz Olivier Zunz University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568444 Published: 01 June 1998

Review: The Landscape of Modernity. Essays on New York City, 1900-1940 by David Ward, Olivier Zunz

Review: The Landscape of Modernity. Essays on New York City, 1900-1940 by David Ward, Olivier Zunz

Making America Corporate, 1870–1920 by Olivier Zunz

362 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE analysis of the friendship between Edison and Ford that blossomed after 1915. Given the goals of this series, which is edited by Oscar Handlin, the book is a success. It is a boiled-down version of Matthew Josephson’s 1959 biography, amended and updated with the scholar­ ship generated by the ongoing publication of the Edison papers under the editorship of Reese Jenkins. My objections to the book will no doubt recommend it to others. This is very much a public life, which largely avoids Edison’s philo­ sophical and moral speculations. His inventions emerge as purely economic ventures, shorn of other meanings they had for the man whose library included novels and theosophical works as well as chemistry, and whose experiments occasionally veered in the direction of the possibility of thought transference. Melosi’s Edison is almost entirely a compound of economics and technique, and the American society that the book implicitly proposes is a nation driven forward by the cooperation of entrepreneurs and inventors, an assumption no doubt congenial to many readers. The genre of the life-and-times biography virtually dictates the fusion of the public and the private, eliminating or downplaying anomalies in order to achieve a synthesis. Such biographies have fallen into disrepute among many literary scholars, while they are still uncritically accepted by most historians. But if you want a short life-and-times biography of Edison, this is the best book available. David E. Nye Dr. Nye teaches at Copenhagen University and is the author of The Invented Self: An Anti-biography of Thomas A. Edison. His most recent book is Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology (MIT Press, 1990). Making America Corporate, 1870—1920. By Olivier Zunz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. x + 267; illustrations, notes, index. $24.95. Modernization. Degradation of the working class. Bureaucratiza­ tion. Rise of the modern State. The Consumer Society. Whatever the label, historians have long recognized that a dramatic institutional and technical transformation took place in the United States between 1870 and 1920. For business historians the central phenomenon has been the rapid development of the modern, high-tech corporation. Labor historians have located here the origins of modern labor organiza­ tions, the deskilling—due to technological change—of the work force, and the advent of new roles for women. Students of professionaliza­ tion have reached similar conclusions about the decisive changes that took place in these years, as have scholars writing on educational institutions. Modern political reform along liberal lines also had its roots in this era. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 363 Olivier Zunz, a social historian at the University of Virginia, has made an important contribution to our understanding of the modern American society that began to emerge in these years, first with The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880—1920 (Chicago, 1982), and now with a book focused primarily on lower-middle-class formation in the wake of the corporate reorganization of the industrial economy. Drawing primarily on company records (Du Pont; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; Ford; the McCormick and International Harvester companies; and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), supple­ mented by local papers and manuscript materials, Zunz skillfully delineates the impact of big business on the kinds of American people we can all remember from our own lives, the stories of our parents, and the best novels and movies set in turn-of-the-century America. We meet, for instance, Alexander Leisenring of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and the peripatetic Louis Wiener, a failed drummer who briefly worked the Illinois prairie country for the Arlington Collar and Cuff Company. We get to know Georgia E. Boyer, the Ford Motor Company’s first woman employee, and McCormick agent H. C. Addis, who said he feared grasshoppers more than the Grange in the 1870s. Lest you conclude that this is, like so many recent social histories, an interesting trip without an equally interesting intellectual destination, I assure you that Zunz uses his detail carefully to develop a general portrait of the lower middle class and to analyze the larger historio­ graphical questions scholars have raised about social...

Making America Corporate, 1870–1920, by Olivier Zunz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)

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Stuart M. Blumin. &lt;italic&gt;The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760–1900&lt;/italic&gt;. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xiii, 434. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95

Journal Article Stuart M. Blumin. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760–1900. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xiii, 434. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95 Get access Blumin Stuart M.. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760–1900. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xiii, 434. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95. Olivier Zunz Olivier Zunz University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 96, Issue 3, June 1991, Pages 938–939, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/96.3.938-a Published: 01 June 1991

Self-Employment and Occupational Structure in an Industrializing City: Detroit, 1880

Despite interest in the historically ambiguous position of small entrepreneurs in the occupational and class structure, there has been little investigation of the lives of smallscale self-employed workers during industrialization. Using data from the 1880 manuscript census, city directories, and R.G. Dun and Company credit reports for Detroit, Michigan, this study explores employment status self-employment versus wage employment as a basis of occupational stratiflcation. Self-employed workers in industrial Detroit were more likely than wage earners to have possessed social and labor market advantages. While self-employed workers were diverse in the occupations they held, they were more homogeneous than wage earners in their social characteristics and economic circumstances. The majority of self-employed workers were middle-class. Smallscale entrepreneurs formed a lower middle-class stratum in spite of similarities between their occupational experiences and those of manual wage earners. Self-employment as a basis of occupational stratification among workers reflects labor market advantages such as work autonomy based on property ownership (Form 1985). For many owners of small and petty business enterprises, however, the occupational and economic advantages of self-employment are not readily apparent. As a result, the occupational and class position of small-scale entrepreneurs have often been viewed as problematic, for example, as to whether self-employment necessarily confers middle-class status (Form 1982, 1985; Mills 1956; Wright 1979). The industrialization of the United States in the late nineteenth century has been regarded as a time of historical transition in the meaning of self-employment as a basis of occupational stratification (Kocka 1980; Mills 1956). Even so, there has been little direct empirical examination of the economic, social, and occupational circumstances of self-employed workers' lives during industrialization (Blumin 1980; Bruchey 1980; Steinmetz & Wright 1989; Thernstrom 1973). In this article I investigate the lives of self-employed workers in one historical *The National Science Foundation (SES8611999) and the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, provided supportfor this research. I thank Howard Aldrich, Judith Blau, Claude Fischer, Ken Hardy, Mike Hout, and three reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. I also thank Olivier Zunz for his assistance with the 1880 census data. Direct correspondence to Melanie Archer, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (Bitnet: melanie@uncvml). ? The University of North Carolina Press Social Forces, March 1991, 69(3):785-809 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.102 on Mon, 03 Oct 2016 04:09:13 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 786 / Social Forces 69:3, March 1991 context: the early industrial city of Detroit in 1880. I address two general issues: (1) who were the self-employed, and how were they different from wage earners? and (2) how was self-employment related to workers' occupational status and economic circumstances?

Reproduction, Production, Social Science, and the Past: A Dissenting Review

Social Scientists use historical data. Historians use social science concepts. The intersection of these two disciplines, history and social science, has been a vibrant source of research questions over the last fifteen years but also raises the issue of how they are to be interrelated. The search for an answer to this question has resulted in the publication of Theda Skocpol’s Vision and Method in Historical Sociology and Olivier Zunz’s Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History, which juxtapose the two words in different order. In Skocpol (1984) history modifies sociology; in Zunz (1985) social science modifies history. Both books are collections of articles. Skocpol’s volume contains nine reviews of the work of masters in this field along with an introduction and conclusion by the editor. Zunz’s has an introduction which reviews the literature of social history in five areas of the world: Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and China. This review highlights the strength of Skocpol’s method and of Zunz’s commitment to analysis of non-Western societies but argues that both authors, in limiting their definition of the field to studies of production, ignore an equally vital topic for social analysis of the past, reproduction.

Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. x, 334. $29.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. x, 334. $29.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History

Journal Article Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Ed. by Olivier Zunz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. ix + 334 pp. Cloth, $29.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access John Modell John Modell Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 435–437, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908230 Published: 01 September 1986

Olivier Zunz, editor. &lt;italic&gt;Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History&lt;/italic&gt;. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1985. Pp. 334. Cloth $29.00, paper $9.95

Journal Article Olivier Zunz, editor. Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1985. Pp. 334. Cloth $29.00, paper $9.95 Get access Zunz Olivier, editor. Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1985. Pp. 334. Cloth $29.00, paper $9.95. Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 91, Issue 3, June 1986, Pages 630–631, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/91.3.630 Published: 01 June 1986

Book reviews

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.