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RR 2004/246 St James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact Edited by Neil Schlager St James Press Detroit, MI 2003 2 vols ISBN 1 55862 542 9 Also available as an e-book (ISBN 1 55862 561 5; $286)
Keywords Labour, History, United States of America
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410542959
Readers familiar with the Library of Congress classification system will know that it allocates two whole classes (E and F) to the history of America and only one (D) to the rest of the world. Similar proportions are found in this encyclopedia, with 330 entries of which 220 relate to the USA. This number of entries, in a book of two large volumes (of which one only was available for review), will indicate that its arrangement is not that of a conventional encyclopedia. Entries here are confined to events, mostly industrial disputes and legislative acts (four-fifths of the total), and organizations...