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

Suhrbur, Thomas J., Public Education and Social Reform: A History of the Illinois Education Association. 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-852>
ISBN 978-0-252-04636-0 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08843-8 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Founded in 1853, the Illinois Education Association (IEA) and its predecessors have played a vital role in shaping the Illinois public school system. Thomas J. Suhrbur's history covers the lifespan of the IEA within the larger story of state public education as a battleground for contentious social and economic issues. Suhrbur pays particular attention to the impact of race, gender, religion, and tax policy on the IEA and public schools. He also examines the IEA's evolution from a professional organization controlled by administrations and officials through its radical transformation into a teacher-led independent labor union. As a workers' organization, the IEA successfully fought for collective bargaining and organized K-12 and higher education while continually standing against right-wing efforts to privatize education and undermine public schools with vouchers, for-profit institutions, and tax credits. Multifaceted and up to date, Public Education and Social Reform tells the story of the organization and figures dedicated to sustaining and advancing Illinois public education.

Richman, Shaun, We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953. (Working Class in American History) 336 pp. 2025:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-970>
ISBN 978-0-252-04644-5 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08853-7 paper ¥6,006.- (税込) US$ 28.00

One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the start, New York's organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party's power and influence within the union, until the Party's eclipse in the 1950s. An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today's workers and organizers.

Wasko, Steffen, Armut an Gemeinschaft: Eine Untersuchung zu Formen der Gemeinschaft im Fruehwerk von Bakunin und Marx. 250 S. 2024:4 (Westfaelisches Dampfboot, GW) <742-48>
ISBN 978-3-89691-522-1 paper ¥6,963.- (税込) EUR 30.00

いかに労働者と農家がアメリカの民主主義を再発明したか
Brauer, Ralph, The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy. 400 pp. 2025:4 (Georgetown U. Pr., US) <742-199>
ISBN 978-1-64712-494-6 hard ¥22,511.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-64712-570-7 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern America In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused. The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers and farmers, who in a great uprising of popular democracy reinvented the nation for the emerging industrial world never imagined by the Founders. Facing conditions far worse than previously documented, they overcame the frayed social safety net and violent opposition to pull off what the labor leader John Mitchell has described as the "Second Emancipation," which addressed a dangerously tilted playing field with government programs and legislation. Based on meticulous primary source research and integrating music, photographs, artworks, and statistical data, this sweeping history places grassroots activists and reformers-many recognized for the first time-at center stage in a fascinating success story of perseverance and commitment.