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Publications of John D French    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Lula's Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency (2007) [PDF] [author's comments]
  2. Globalizing Protest and Policy: Neo-Liberalism, Worker Rights, and the Rise of Alt-Global Politics (2006) (forthcoming with Duke University Press.) [This 2003 PDF article is drawn from the introduction to the book]
  3. Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (July, 2004), pp. 233, University of North Carolina Press (It is revised and expanded version of my 2001 book published in Brazil.) [html] [PDF] [author's comments]
  4. Afogados em Leis: A CLT e a Cultura Politica dos Trabalhadores Brasileiros (2001), Sao Paulo: Fundacao Perseu Abramo [PDF] [author's comments]
  5. O ABC dos Operários: Conflitos e Alianças de Classe em São Paulo, 1900-1950 (1995), pp. 351
  6. The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo (1992), Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press (378 pages.) [For the Introduction to the book.]

Papers Published

  1. J.D. French, Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global, in Workers, Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History, edited by Leon Fink (2011), Oxford University Press [PDF]
  2. Comparative Perspectives on Politics: An Interview with Dr. Alexandre Fortes and Dr. John D. French, Journal of Global Affairs, vol. 2011 (2011), pp. 1-5 [PDF]
  3. J.D. French, Resenha: Antonio Luigi Negro, Linhas de Montagem (Sao Paulo: 2004), Tempo Social. Revista de Sociologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, vol. 22 no. 1 (2010), pp. 277-87 [scielo.php] [PDF]
  4. J.D. French, Many Lefts, One Path? Chávez and Lula, in Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, edited by Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg (2010), pp. 41-60, Lynne Rienner, Boulder [Latin_America_s_Left_Turns_Politics_Policies_and_Trajectories_of_Change]
  5. J.D. French, The Professor and the Worker: Using Brazil to Better Understand Latin America's Plural Left, in Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, edited by Mabel Moraña and Bret Gustafson (2010), pp. 91-113, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Frankfurt/Madrid [PDF]
  6. J.D. French, How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 90 no. 1 (2010), pp. 109-142 [109] [PDF]
  7. J.D. French, Lula, the 'New Unionism,' and the Brazilian Workers' Party: How Workers Came to Change the World, or at Least Brazil, Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 51 no. 4 (November, 2009), pp. 157-169 [abstract] [PDF] [abs]
  8. J.D. French, Understanding the Politics of Latin America’s Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social Democracy, Populism, and Convergence on the Path to a Post-Neoliberal World, Third World Quarterly, vol. 30 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 349-370 [01436590802681090] [PDF]
  9. J.D. French, Understanding the Politics of Latin America’s Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social Democracy, Populism, and Convergence on the Path to a Post-Neoliberal World, Working Paper #355 (2009), Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (This a longer and more extended piece with three tables regarding the Forum de Sao Paulo, the main gathering of the Latin American left since 1990.) [PDF]
  10. with Kristin Wintersteen, Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests, International Labor and Working-Class History no. 75 (2009), pp. 1-24 [PDF]
  11. J.D. French, Women in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Towards a New Feminist Political History, Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 50 no. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 175-184 [PDF]
  12. with Daniel James, Polemics and an ‘Army of One’: Responding to John Womack Jr., Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 5 no. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 125-129 [PDF]
  13. J.D. French, Mulheres no México Pós-Revolucionario: Rumo a uma Nova História Política Feminista, Revista da Universidade Rural- Série Ciencias Humanas e Sociais [Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro], vol. 29 no. 2 (July, 2007), pp. 222-230 [PDF]
  14. J. D. French and Daniel James, The Travails of Doing Labor History: The Restless Wanderings of John Womack Jr., Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 4 no. 2 (2007), pp. 95-116 [PDF]
  15. Wal-Mart, Retail Supremacy, and the Relevance of Political Economy: The Intermestic Challenge of Contemporary Research (Academic, Agitational, and Constructive), Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 4 no. 1 (2006), pp. 33-40 [PDF]
  16. As Falsas Dicotomias entre Escravidao e Liberdade: Continuidades e Rupturas na Formaçao Política e Social do Brasil Moderno, in Trabalho Escravo: Brasil e Europa, Séculos XVII e XIX, edited by Douglas Cole Libby and Júnia Ferreira Furtado (2006), pp. 75-96, Anablume
  17. The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions, in Global Labour History, edited by Jan Lucassen (2006), pp. 289-333, Bern: Peter Lange [PDF]
  18. J.D. French, Proclamando Direitos, Metendo o Pau, e Lutando pelos Direitos: A Questao Social como Caso de Polícia, 1920-1964, in Direitos e Justicas no Brasil: Ensaios de Historia Social, edited by Silvia Lara and Joseli Mendonca (2006), pp. 379-416, Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP [PDF]
  19. with Alexandre Fortes, “'Another World is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers’ Party and the Prospects for Lula’s Government”, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 2 no. 3 (2005), pp. 13-31 [PDF]
  20. Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999, in Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System (2004), pp. 155-178, Linz, Austria: ITH [PDF]
  21. J.D. French, Research Note: The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 84 no. 2 (2004), pp. 313-324 [PDF of this article]
  22. Labor and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, in Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects, edited by Ronaldo Munck (2004), pp. 149-65, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press [PDF]
  23. J.D. French, 'Not all of History is Recorded in the Books Supplied to School Children': 'Pale History Books' and the Hidden Afro-Diasporic Dialogue between the United States and Brazil, 1914-1966, in Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes, edited by Denise Pini Rosalem de Fonseca, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 19-49, Rio de Janeiro: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
  24. Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, Nepantla, vol. 4 no. 1 (2003), pp. 375-389 [PDF]
  25. 'Brasiliana' Breathrough: Translations as Building Blocks for a New Hemispheric Intellectual Architecture, LASA Forum, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2002), pp. 12-13
  26. Towards Effective Transnational Labor Solidarity Between NAFTA North and NAFTA South, Labor History, vol. 44 no. 4 (2002), pp. 451-459 [PDF]
  27. From the Suites to the Streets of Seattle: The Unexpected Re-emergence of the 'Labor Question,' 1994-1999, Labor History, vol. 43 no. 3 (2002), pp. 285-304 [PDF]
  28. Passos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael Hanchard, Estudos Afro-Asiaticos [Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, Universidade Candido Mendes], vol. 24 no. 1 (2002), pp. 97-140 [PDF]
  29. Sharing the Riches of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture: Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Syllabi and Handouts (2002), Durham (This 167 page publication is issued jointly by the African and African-American Studies Program of Duke University and the Consortium in Latin American Studies of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University.)
  30. One-Question Interview: Watching Lula, Dialogue, vol. 17 no. 21 (8 November 2002), Duke University
  31. J.D. French, A História latino-americana do trabalho hoje: Uma reflexão auto-crítica, Revista de Historia no. 6 (2002), pp. 11-28, UNISINOS, Rio Grande do Sul [PDF]
  32. J.D. French, Editor, "Robert J. Alexander Papers: Interview Collection, 1947-1994" (2002) (commercially distributed by the international microfilming firm IDC.) [html]
  33. with Greg Grandin, Talking Back and Talking Sense since 11 September: A 2003 LASA Congress Forum on Terrorism, Militarism, and Civil Liberties, LASA Forum, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2002), pp. 37
  34. J.D. French, Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words: Responding to the Catastrophe, in The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader (2002), Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Channell, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill Companies [PDF]
  35. J.D. French, Passos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael Hanchard, Estudos Afro-Asiaticos [Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, Universidade Candido Mendes], vol. 24 no. 1 (2002), pp. 97-140 [For the second half of the PDF of this article]
  36. 'They Don't Wear Black-Tie:' Intellectuals and Workers in Modern Sao Paulo, 1958-1981, International Labor and Working Class History no. 59 (Spring, 2001), pp. 60-80 (Part of a thematic issue on "Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience".) [PDF]
  37. El Auge de Los Estudios Sobre el Trabajo en Latinoamerica, Historia Social no. 39 (2001), pp. 129-150, Valencia, Spain
  38. J.D. French, A Procura de uma Visão Panorámica do Trabalho em América Latina durante a Época Populista, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo, vol. 7 no. 13 (2001), pp. 213-26
  39. J.D. French, Beyond the Catastrophe, The Chronicle (September 28, 2001), pp. 19, Duke
  40. J.D. French, Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words, Dialogue, vol. 16 no. 16 (October 5, 2001), pp. 7, 11, Duke
  41. The Missteps of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant, and Hanchard's Orpheus and Power, Theory, Culture, & Society, vol. 17 no. 1 (February, 2000), pp. 107-128 [PDF] [abs]
  42. with Mary Lynn Pedersen Cluff, As Mulheres e a Mobilizacao Operaria na epoca de Pos-Guerra em Sao Paulo, 1945-1948, Historia Social [Revista da Pos-Graduacao em Historia, IFCH-UNICAMP] no. 7 (2000), pp. 171-211
  43. Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies, Development and Society, vol. 29 no. 2 (2000), pp. 137-163 (Part of a special issue on "Theory, History, and Eurocentrism".)
  44. A Origem da Intervencao Estatal nas Relacoes Industriais Brasileiras, 1930-1934: Uma Critica, Tomo [Revista do Nucleo de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencias Sociais da Universidade Federal de Sergipe no. 3 (2000), pp. 9-27
  45. The Latin American Labor Studies Boom, International Review of Social History, vol. 45 (2000), pp. 279-310, Amsterdam [PDF]
  46. Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies, in The Labor Movement: A Failed Project of Modernity (2000), Linz, Austria: International Conference of Labor and Social History
  47. J.D. French, As Mulheres e a Mobilização Operária na época de Pós-Guerra em São Paulo, 1945-1948, Historia Social [Revista da Pós-Graduação em História, IFCH-UNICAMP] no. 7 (2000), pp. 171-211
  48. J.D. French, Preface for Frederico Lisbôa Romão’s Na Trama da História: O Movimento Operário de Sergipe 1871 a 1935 (2000), Aracaju, SE: Sindimina, Sindipema, Sindisan, Sindicato dos Bancários, Advocacia Operária
  49. J.D. French, Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss, American National Biography, vol. 3 (1999), pp. 54-5, New York: Oxford University Press
  50. Pensar América Latina. Entrevista de Daniel James e John French, in Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho, edited by Alexandre Fortes and Antonio Negro (1999), pp. 181-210, Campinas: UNICAMP (Alexandre Fortes, Antonio Negro, and Paulo Fontes (interviewers).)
  51. J.D. French, Preface for Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho, edited by Alexandre Fortes, Antonio Negro, and Paulo Fontes (1999), Campinas: UNICAMP
  52. J.D. French, Drowning in Laws but Starving (for Justice?): Brazilian Labor Law and the Workers' Quest to Realize the Imaginary, Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 12 (1998), pp. 177-214
  53. J.D. French, Los trabajadores industriales y el nacimiento de la República Populista en Brasil, 1945-46, in Populismo y Neopopulismo en América Latina: El Problema de la Cenicienta, edited by María Moira Mackinnon and Mario Alberto Petrone (1998), pp. 59-77, Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires
  54. with Alexandre Fortes, Urban Labor History in Twentieth Century Brazil (1998), Albuquerque: Latin American Institute/University of New Mexico (annotated bibliography with an introductory essay. 111 pages.) [PDF] [PDF]
  55. J.D. French, Reflections on a Recent Exchange between Duke University and El Colegio de México, in Integrating Higher Education in North America: From Wingspread to San Diego, edited by Norris Clement and Glen Sparrow (1998), pp. 29, San Diego: Institute for Regional Studies of the California, San Diego State University
  56. J.D. French, Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World, Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (Spring, 1997), pp. 1, 5
  57. with Daniel James, Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization, in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997), pp. 297-313 (a methodological conclusion.)
  58. with Daniel James, Squaring the Circle: Women's Factory Labor, Gender Ideology, and Necessity, in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997), pp. 1-30, Durham: Duke University Press (an historiographical introduction.)
  59. J.D. French, Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social, Nueva Sociedad no. 148 (1997), pp. 142-157, Caracas
  60. J.D. French, Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948, in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997), pp. 176-207
  61. J.D. French, New Works from the Duke-UNC Translation Series, Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (Fall, 1997), pp. 3
  62. J.D. French, Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World, LASA Forum, vol. 28 no. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 44-45
  63. with Daniel James, Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions, Latin American Labor News no. 15 (1997), pp. 14
  64. J.D. French, Sindicatos y NAFTA: Reflejos Nacionalistas y Imperativos Transnacionales, Latin American Labor News no. 14 (1996)
  65. J.D. French, A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional: A "Cláusula Social", in Processos de Integração Regional e a Sociedade: O Sindicalismo na Argentina, Brasil, México, e Venezuela, edited by Hélio Zylberstajn, et al. (1996), pp. 326-345, Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra
  66. J.D. French, A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional, Estudos Avançados, vol. 27 (1996), pp. 251-268, São Paulo
  67. with Leon Fink, The Future of the International Labor Question From the Inside Looking Out, Labour/Le Travail no. 37 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-11 [PDF]
  68. J.D. French, Dante Pellacani, Osvaldo Pacheco, and Clodsmith Rianni entries, (Volume 4: 259. 557, 338) and on the Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores (Volume 1: 446-7), in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (1996), New York: Charles Scribners' Sons
  69. J.D. French, Reflejos Nacionalistas en el TLC, Memoria (Mexico D.F.) no. 84 (1995), pp. 27-31
  70. J.D. French, Expectativas de un Transnacionalismo Sindical, Memoria (Mexico, D.F.) no. 85 (1995), pp. 26-31
  71. J.D. French, NAFTA y la Integración Silenciosa de los Pueblos y de las Economias de Norte América, Latin American Labor News no. 12-13 (1995), pp. 5, 8-9
  72. with Jefferson Cowie, El Acuerdo Lateral Sobre Trabajo del Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio: Un Análisis Textual, Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #9 (1995), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies-FIU
  73. with Russell E. Smith, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World (1995), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #21.)
  74. J.D. French, The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945 (1995), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies-FIU (Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #17.)
  75. with Jefferson Cowie and Scott Littlehale, Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book (1995), Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies (275 pages.)
  76. with Russell E. Smith, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: A Conference Report, Latin American Labor News no. 12-13 (1995), pp. 3-4
  77. J.D. French, The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945, in International Labour Standards in the Globalized Economy: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives, edited by Werner Sengenberger and Duncan Campbell (1994), pp. 19-26, Geneva: International Labor Organization
  78. J.D. French, The Populist Gamble of Getúlio Vargas in 1945: Political and Ideological Transitions in Brazil, in Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Adjustments, edited by David Rock (1994), pp. 141-165, Berkeley: University of California Press
  79. with Jefferson Cowie, The NAFTA Labor Side Accord: A Textual Analysis, Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Working Paper #11 (1994), Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies
  80. J.D. French, Labor and Free Trade in the Americas, Global Perspective (Fall, 1994), Duke Center for International Studies
  81. with Russell E. Smith, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World, LASA FORUM (October, 1993)
  82. J.D. French, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration, Global Perspective (Fall, 1993), Duke Center for International Studies
  83. J.D. French, Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference, International Labor and Working Class History no. 41 (Spring, 1992), pp. 76-79
  84. J.D. French, Practice and Ideology: A Cautionary Note on the Historian's Craft, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 71 no. 4 (November, 1991), pp. 847-855 [PDF]
  85. J.D. French, The Origin of Corporatist State Intervention in Brazilian Industrial Relations, 1930-1934: A Critique of the Literature, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 28 no. 2 (Fall, 1991), pp. 13-26
  86. J.D. French, Commercial Footsoldiers of the Empire: Foreign Merchant Politics in Tampico, Mexico 1861-1866, The Americas, vol. 46 no. 3 (January, 1990), pp. 291-314 [PDF]
  87. J.D. French, Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 Issue 62 (Fall, 1989), pp. 5-27 [PDF]
  88. with Mary Lynn Pedersen, Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948, Latin American Research Review, vol. 24 no. 3 (Fall, 1989), pp. 99-125
  89. J.D. French, Fifth Latin American Labor History Conference, International Labor and Working Class History no. 35 (Spring, 1989), pp. 84-88
  90. J.D. French, Workers and the Rise of Adhemarista Populism in São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1947, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 68 no. 1 (February, 1988), pp. 1-43 [PDF]
  91. J.D. French, Fourth Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History no. 33 (Spring, 1988), pp. 87-89
  92. J.D. French, A Asçensão do Populismo Adhemarista em São Paulo- 1946/1947, IDESP (Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Políticos de São Paulo) no. 19 (1987) (Reproduced as part of Brazilian pamphlets on legal, political and social issues , from the Princeton University Latin American pamphlet collection. P0303, rolls 2-4.)
  93. J.D. French, Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History no. 32 (Fall, 1987), pp. 80-82
  94. J.D. French, Second Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History no. 28 (Fall, 1985), pp. 94-95
  95. J.D. French, Riqueza, poder e mão-de-obra numa economia de subsistencia: São Paulo, 1596-1625 [Wealth, Power, and Labor in a Subsistence Economy, 1596-1625], Revista do Arquivo Municipal (São Paulo), vol. Ano 45 no. 195 (Janeiro a Dezembro de 1982), pp. 79-107
  96. with Magnus Mörner and Julia Fawaz de Viñuela, Comparative Approaches to Latin American History, Latin American Research Review, vol. 17 no. 2 (1982), pp. 55-89
  97. J.D. French, 'Reaping the Whirlwind:' The Origins of the Allegheny County Greenback Labor Party in 1877, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, vol. 64 no. 2 (1981), pp. 97-119 [PDF]

Edited Volumes

  1. The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box, edited by J.D. French and D. James (1997), Durham: Duke University Press
  2. Labor, Economic Integration, and Transnationalism: A Miscellaneous Bibliography, edited by John D French, Jefferson Cowie, Mark Healey, and Scott Littlehale (1996), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #4.)
  3. Labor and NAFTA: A Bibliography, edited by John D French, Jefferson Cowie and Scott Littlehale (1996), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #5.)
  4. Latin American Labor Studies Syllabi, edited by John D French (1995), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #8.)
  5. with Jefferson Cowie and Scott Littlehale, Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book (1995), Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies (275 pages.)
  6. Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography (1992), edited by John D French (1992), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #4.)
  7. Robert Alexander: The Complete Bibliography of a Pioneering Latin Americanist, edited by J.D. French (1991), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #3.)
  8. Latin American Labor Studies: An Interim Bibliography of Non-English Publications (1989), edited by J.D. French (1989), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #2.)
  9. Latin American Labor Studies: A Bibliography of English Publications through 1989, edited by J.D. French (1989), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University (Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography #1.)
  10. The Microfilmed Ann and Franklin Chase Collection (A40155) of the Dallas Historical Society, edited by J.D. French (1988), Dallas: Dallas Historical Society (a guide to the microfilm edition prepared by John D. French.)

Book Chapters

  1. J.D. French, Os Trabalhos Arquivísticos Voltado ao Mundo dos Trabalhadores: Avanços e Desafios em América Latina desde 1992, in O Mundo dos Trabalhadores e seus Arquivos, edited by José Antonio Marques & Inez Terezinha Stampa (2009), pp. 83-101, Arquivo Nacional/CUT [PDF]
  2. J.D. French, North American Free Trade Agreement, in Enchyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, vol. 2 (2009), pp. 1011-1016 [PDF]

Book Reviews

  1. J.D. French, Review of Brodwyn M. Fischer, The Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), Social History, vol. Vol.. 35 no. 1 (2010), pp. 84-86. [PDF]
  2. J.D. French, Resenha de To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, Mundos do Trabalho no. 2 (2009), pp. 282-285 [PDF]
  3. J.D. French, Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 6 no. 3 (2009), pp. 120-22 [PDF]
  4. J.D. French, Resenha de O Brasil de Lula: A Gestão da Esperança, de Gonzalo Arijón, Mundos do Trabalho, vol. 1 no. 1 (2009), pp. 293-6 [PDF]
  5. J.D. French, Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 6 no. 3 (2009)
  6. J.D. French, Review of the documentary “Lula’s Brazil: The Management of Hope” Directed by Gonzalo Arijón (2005)., Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 5 no. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 134-36 [PDF]
  7. J.D. French, Mulheres no Mexico Pos-revolucao: Rumo a uma Nova Historia Politica Feminista, Revista Universidade Rural, Série Ciências Humanas, vol. 29 no. 2 (2007), pp. 222-230 [PDF]
  8. Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland: Food First Books, 2003), Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 4 no. 1 (2007), pp. 141-43 [PDF]
  9. Michael D. Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (forthcoming), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 [PDF]
  10. Sueann Caulfield, In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-twentieth-century Brazil, American Historical Review, vol. 107 no. 5 (2002), pp. 1614-15, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000 [PDF]
  11. Maurício Rands Barros, Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil, International Labor and Working Class History no. 59 (2001), pp. 234-237, New York/London: St. Martin's Press/Macmillan Press, 1999
  12. Brian Philip Owensby, Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-class Lives in Brazil, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 81 no. 1 (2001), pp. 198-200, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999
  13. Maria Lorena Cook, Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico, Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1997), pp. 175-76, University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996 (Appeared in Portuguese in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo Vol. 3 #5 (1997), pp. 222-226.)
  14. James P. Brennan, The Labor Wars of Córdoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 49 no. 3 (1996), pp. 572-574, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994 (Appeared in Spanish in Entrepasados: Revista de Historia (Buenos Aires), Ano VI #11, pp. 178-180.)
  15. Margaret Keck, The Workers Party and Democratization in Brazil, Contemporary Sociology (1995), pp. 340-342, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992
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Other

  1. J.D. French, Question and Answer on comments by Brazilian President Lula at the International Labor Organization regarding labor, the G-20, and global crisis, Latin American Advisor [Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC) (August 24, 2009), pp. 4 [PDF]
  2. J.D. French, Obama e o desafio pós-neoliberal [Obama and the Neo-Liberal Challenge], Teoria e Debate (São Paulo) no. 81 (April, 2009) [article.php] [PDF] [abs]
  3. J.D. French, Guest Commentary: The John Hope I Came to Know, The Chronicle (2009) [john-hope-i-came-know]
  4. J.D. French, Obama e os Limites da Ousadia [Obama and the Limits of Audacity], Teoria e Debate (Sao Paulo Brazil) no. 78 (August, 2008), pp. 44-48 [PDF]
  5. J.D. French, Learning the Craft: The Role of Graduate Mentoring, AHA Perspectives, vol. 45 no. 8 (November, 2007) [PDF]
  6. J.D. French, Commentary on slave labor and Brazilian pig iron imports into the United States, Latin American Advisor [Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.] (2006) [PDF]

Journal Articles

  1. with Alexandre Fortes, Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers´ Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 9 no. 1 (2011), pp. 7-28 [PDF]
  2. with Antonio Luigi Negro, Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil, A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature, vol. 8 no. 3 (2011), pp. 377-394 [PDF]