Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

ランカシャーの綿花危機における公的ディスコースとしての貧困と抗議
Broady, Rachel, Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis. (Neglected Voices from the Past) 213 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1771>
ISBN 978-3-031-73305-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history, culture and education. Workers' voices are comprehensively studied in terms of newspapers publishing fiction and poetry, and the broader political response to the crisis, the American Civil War and British workers' support of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. They are, though, overlooked in terms of journalistic representation of workers. Ironically, discussions of the cotton crisis, including where efforts are made to assess the workers' experience, have consistently relied upon journalism as primary sources and the first witness of history without assessing the news copy's political unconscious. This lack of attention is especially apparent when considering workers challenging poverty through dedicated protest. Amid the celebrated workers' opposition to slavery, and their 'sublime heroism' as noted by American President Abraham Lincoln, there were less studied local struggles for financial help, for education, and for the vote.

Derickson, Alan, Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards. 222 pp. 2025:4 (ILR Pr., US) <737-1772>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8018-9 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8019-6 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Fighting Toxic Ignorance explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. Alan Derickson considers risks posed by toxic chemicals and physical and biological agents of disease. By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year. Derickson unravels the social and political forces and the conflictual process that gave rise to a sustained social movement for a workers' right to know about often-insidious threats. He argues that the decades prior to the emergence of this movement were not a dark age of victimization brought about by enforced ignorance but a time of recurrent battles over the disclosure of needed facts. Workplace warnings-informative signs, labels, and instructions-often saved lives. Fighting Toxic Ignorance covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.

Noll, Jody Baxter, The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism. (Making the Modern South) 224 pp. 2025:3 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <737-1773>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8300-7 hard ¥9,949.- (税込) US$ 45.00