Books

1.  Lula's Tranformative Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Presidency. 2007. [PDF]
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.  University of North Carolina Press, July, 2004: 233. (It is revised and expanded version of my 2001 book published in Brazil) [html]
4.  Afogados em Leis: A CLT e a Cultura Politica dos Trabalhadores Brasileiros.  Sao Paulo: Fundacao Perseu Abramo, 2001. [PDF]
5.  O ABC dos Operários: Conflitos e Alianças de Classe em São Paulo, 1900-1950. 1995: 351.
6.  The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo.  Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. (378 pages) [For the Introduction to the book.]

Papers Published

1. J.D. French. "Women in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Towards a New Feminist Political History." Latin American Politics and Society 50:2 (Summer, Summer, 2008): 175-184. [PDF]
2. with Daniel James. "Polemics and an ‘Army of One’: Responding to John Womack Jr.." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5:2 (Summer, Summer, 2008): 125-129.
3. 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 4:2 (2007): 95-116. [PDF]
4. "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 4:1 (2006): 33-40. [PDF]
5. "As Falsas Dicotomias entre Escravidao e Liberdade: Continuidades e Rupturas na Formaçao Política e Social do Brasil Moderno." Trabalho Escravo: Brasil e Europa, Séculos XVII e XIX  (2006): 75-96.
6. "The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions." Global Labour History  (2006): 289-333. [PDF]
7. J.D. French. "Proclamando Direitos, Metendo o Pau, e Lutando pelos Direitos: A Questao Social como Caso de Polícia, 1920-1964." Direitos e Justicas no Brasil: Ensaios de Historia Social  (2006): 379-416. [PDF]
8. 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 2:3 (2005): 13-31. [PDF]
9. "Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999." Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System  (2004): 155-178.
10. J.D. French. "Research Note: The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection." Hispanic American Historical Review 84:2 (2004): 313-324. [PDF of this article]
11. "Labor and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America." Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects  (2004): 149-65. [PDF]
12. 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." Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes 1 (2003): 19-49. [PDF]
13. "Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant." Nepantla 4:1 (2003): 375-389. [PDF]
14. "'Brasiliana' Breathrough: Translations as Building Blocks for a New Hemispheric Intellectual Architecture." LASA Forum 33:3 (Fall, 2002): 12-13.
15. "Towards Effective Transnational Labor Solidarity Between NAFTA North and NAFTA South." Labor History 44:4 (2002): 451-459. [PDF]
16. "From the Suites to the Streets of Seattle: The Unexpected Re-emergence of the 'Labor Question,' 1994-1999." Labor History 43:3 (2002): 285-304. [PDF]
17. "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] 24:1 (2002): 97-140. [PDF]
18. "Sharing the Riches of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture: Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Syllabi and Handouts."  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   (2002).
19. "One-Question Interview: Watching Lula." Dialogue 17:21 (8 November 2002).
20. J.D. French. "A História latino-americana do trabalho hoje: Uma reflexão auto-crítica." Revista de Historia :6 (2002): 11-28. [PDF]
21. J.D. French. "Editor, "Robert J. Alexander Papers: Interview Collection, 1947-1994"."  commercially distributed by the international microfilming firm IDC   (2002). [html]
22. with Greg Grandin. "Talking Back and Talking Sense since 11 September: A 2003 LASA Congress Forum on Terrorism, Militarism, and Civil Liberties." LASA Forum 33:3 (Fall, 2002): 37.
23. J.D. French. "Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words: Responding to the Catastrophe." The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader  (2002). [PDF]
24. 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] 24:1 (2002): 97-140. [For the second half of the PDF of this article]
25. "'They Don't Wear Black-Tie:' Intellectuals and Workers in Modern Sao Paulo, 1958-1981."  Part of a thematic issue on "Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience" International Labor and Working Class History :59 (Spring, 2001): 60-80. [PDF]
26. "El Auge de Los Estudios Sobre el Trabajo en Latinoamerica." Historia Social :39 (2001): 129-150.
27. J.D. French. "A Procura de uma Visão Panorámica do Trabalho em América Latina durante a Época Populista." Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo 7:13 (2001): 213-26.
28. J.D. French. "Beyond the Catastrophe." The Chronicle  (September 28, 2001): 19.
29. J.D. French. "Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words." Dialogue 16:16 (October 5, 2001): 7, 11.
30. "The Missteps of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant, and Hanchard's Orpheus and Power." Theory, Culture, & Society 17:1 (February, 2000): 107-128. [PDF] [abs]
31. 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] :7 (2000): 171-211.
32. "Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies."  Part of a special issue on "Theory, History, and Eurocentrism" Development and Society 29:2 (2000): 137-163.
33. "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 :3 (2000): 9-27.
34. "The Latin American Labor Studies Boom." International Review of Social History 45 (2000): 279-310. [PDF]
35. "Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies." The Labor Movement: A Failed Project of Modernity  (2000).
36. 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] :7 (2000): 171-211.
37. J.D. French. "Preface for Frederico Lisbôa Romão’s Na Trama da História: O Movimento Operário de Sergipe 1871 a 1935."   (2000).
38. J.D. French. "Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss." American National Biography 3 (1999): 54-5.
39. "Pensar América Latina. Entrevista de Daniel James e John French."  Alexandre Fortes, Antonio Negro, and Paulo Fontes (interviewers) Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho  (1999): 181-210.
40. J.D. French. "Preface for Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho."   (1999).
41. 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 12 (1998): 177-214.
42. J.D. French. "Los trabajadores industriales y el nacimiento de la República Populista en Brasil, 1945-46." Populismo y Neopopulismo en América Latina: El Problema de la Cenicienta  (1998): 59-77.
43. with Alexandre Fortes. "Urban Labor History in Twentieth Century Brazil."  annotated bibliography with an introductory essay. 111 pages   (1998).
44. J.D. French. "Reflections on a Recent Exchange between Duke University and El Colegio de México." Integrating Higher Education in North America: From Wingspread to San Diego  (1998): 29.
45. J.D. French. "Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News  (Spring, Spring, 1997): 1, 5.
46. with Daniel James. "Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization."  a methodological conclusion The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers  (1997): 297-313.
47. with Daniel James. "Squaring the Circle: Women's Factory Labor, Gender Ideology, and Necessity."  an historiographical introduction The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers  (1997): 1-30.
48. J.D. French. "Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social." Nueva Sociedad :148 (1997): 142-157.
49. J.D. French. "Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948." The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers  (1997): 176-207.
50. J.D. French. "New Works from the Duke-UNC Translation Series." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News  (Fall, 1997): 3.
51. J.D. French. "Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World." LASA Forum 28:1 (Spring, 1997): 44-45.
52. with Daniel James. "Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions." Latin American Labor News :15 (1997): 14.
53. J.D. French. "Sindicatos y NAFTA: Reflejos Nacionalistas y Imperativos Transnacionales." Latin American Labor News :14 (1996).
54. J.D. French. "A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional: A "Cláusula Social"." Processos de Integração Regional e a Sociedade: O Sindicalismo na Argentina, Brasil, México, e Venezuela  (1996): 326-345.
55. J.D. French. "A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional." Estudos Avançados 27 (1996): 251-268.
56. with Leon Fink. "The Future of the International Labor Question From the Inside Looking Out." Labour/Le Travail :37 (Spring, 1996): 1-11. [PDF]
57. 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)." Encyclopedia of Latin American History  (1996).
58. J.D. French. "Reflejos Nacionalistas en el TLC." Memoria (Mexico D.F.) :84 (1995): 27-31.
59. J.D. French. "Expectativas de un Transnacionalismo Sindical." Memoria (Mexico, D.F.) :85 (1995): 26-31.
60. J.D. French. "NAFTA y la Integración Silenciosa de los Pueblos y de las Economias de Norte América." Latin American Labor News :12-13 (1995): 5, 8-9.
61. with Jefferson Cowie. "El Acuerdo Lateral Sobre Trabajo del Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio: Un Análisis Textual." Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #9  (1995).
62. with Russell E. Smith. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World."  Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #21   (1995).
63. J.D. French. "The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945."  Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #17   (1995).
64. with Jefferson Cowie and Scott Littlehale. "Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book."  275 pages   (1995).
65. with Russell E. Smith. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: A Conference Report." Latin American Labor News :12-13 (1995): 3-4.
66. J.D. French. "The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945." International Labour Standards in the Globalized Economy: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives  (1994): 19-26.
67. J.D. French. "The Populist Gamble of Getúlio Vargas in 1945: Political and Ideological Transitions in Brazil." Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Adjustments  (1994): 141-165.
68. with Jefferson Cowie. "The NAFTA Labor Side Accord: A Textual Analysis." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Working Paper #11  (1994).
69. J.D. French. "Labor and Free Trade in the Americas." Global Perspective  (Fall, 1994).
70. 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).
71. J.D. French. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration." Global Perspective  (Fall, 1993).
72. J.D. French. "Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference." International Labor and Working Class History :41 (Spring, 1992): 76-79.
73. J.D. French. "Practice and Ideology: A Cautionary Note on the Historian's Craft." Hispanic American Historical Review 71:4 (November, 1991): 847-855.
74. J.D. French. "The Origin of Corporatist State Intervention in Brazilian Industrial Relations, 1930-1934: A Critique of the Literature." Luso-Brazilian Review 28:2 (Fall, 1991): 13-26.
75. J.D. French. "Commercial Footsoldiers of the Empire: Foreign Merchant Politics in Tampico, Mexico 1861-1866." The Americas 46:3 (January, 1990): 291-314. [PDF]
76. J.D. French. "Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946." Latin American Perspectives 16:4 Issue 62 (Fall, 1989): 5-27. [PDF]
77. with Mary Lynn Pedersen. "Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948." Latin American Research Review 24:3 (Fall, 1989): 99-125.
78. J.D. French. "Fifth Latin American Labor History Conference." International Labor and Working Class History :35 (Spring, 1989): 84-88.
79. J.D. French. "Workers and the Rise of Adhemarista Populism in São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1947." Hispanic American Historical Review 68:1 (February, 1988): 1-43. [PDF]
80. J.D. French. "Fourth Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History :33 (Spring, 1988): 87-89.
81. J.D. French. "A Asçensão do Populismo Adhemarista em São Paulo- 1946/1947."  Reproduced as part of Brazilian pamphlets on legal, political and social issues , from the Princeton University Latin American pamphlet collection. P0303, rolls 2-4 IDESP (Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Políticos de São Paulo) :19 (1987).
82. J.D. French. "Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History :32 (Fall, 1987): 80-82.
83. J.D. French. "Second Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History :28 (Fall, 1985): 94-95.
84. 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) Ano 45:195 (Janeiro a Dezembro de 1982): 79-107.
85. with Magnus Mörner and Julia Fawaz de Viñuela. "Comparative Approaches to Latin American History." Latin American Research Review 17:2 (1982): 55-89.
86. J.D. French. "'Reaping the Whirlwind:' The Origins of the Allegheny County Greenback Labor Party in 1877." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 64:2 (1981): 97-119.

Book Reviews

1. 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 5:1 (Spring, Spring, 2008): 134-36. [PDF]
2.  "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 4:1 (2007): 141-43. [PDF]
3. Michael D. Snodgrass, "Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico". Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas  (forthcoming). [PDF]
4. Sueann Caulfield, "In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-twentieth-century Brazil". American Historical Review 107:5 (2002): 1614-15.
5. Maurício Rands Barros, "Labour Relations and the New Unionism in Contemporary Brazil". International Labor and Working Class History :59 (2001): 234-237.
6. Brian Philip Owensby, "Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-class Lives in Brazil". Hispanic American Historical Review 81:1 (2001): 198-200.
7. Maria Lorena Cook, "Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico". Industrial and Labor Relations Review  (1997): 175-76. (Appeared in Portuguese in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo Vol. 3 #5 (1997), pp. 222-226)
8. 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 49:3 (1996): 572-574. (Appeared in Spanish in Entrepasados: Revista de Historia (Buenos Aires), Ano VI #11, pp. 178-180)
9. Margaret Keck, "The Workers Party and Democratization in Brazil". Contemporary Sociology  (1995): 340-342.
10. Joel Wolfe, "Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1930-1955". Business History Review 69:2 (1995): 238-241.
11. Ronald Schneider, ""Order and Progress": A Political History of Brazil". American Historical Review 97:4 (October, October, 1992): 1321-1322.
12. Maria Lígia Coelho Prado, "A Democracia Illustrada (O Partido Democrático de São Paulo, 1926-1934)". Hispanic American Historical Review 69:2 (May, May, 1989): 360-361.
13. Mario Carelli, "Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930". Luso-Brazilian Review 25:2 (Winter, Winter, 1988): 99-101.
14. June Hahner, "Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920". Luso-Brazilian Review 25:1 (Summer, Summer, 1988): 145-147.
15. Thomas B. Davis and Amado Ricon Virulegio, "The Political Plans of Mexico". Hispanic American Historical Review 68:4 (1988): 842-843.
16. Braz José de Araújo, "Operários em Luta. Metalúrgicos da Baixada Santista (1933-1983)". Hispanic American Historical Review 68:3 (1988): 622-624.
17. Josefina Zoraida Vázquez and Lorenzo Meyer, "The United States and Mexico". Western Historical Quarterly XVIII:1 (January, January, 1987): 64-65.
18. Peter Blanchard, "The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919". International Labor and Working Class History :30 (Fall, Fall, 1986): 137-141.
19. Yonne de Souza Grossi, "Mina de Morro Velho: A Extração do Homem. Uma História de Experiência Operária". International Labor and Working Class History :23 (Spring, Spring, 1983): 116-120.

Other

1. 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]

Edited Volumes

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