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Publications of John D. French    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

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

Edited Volumes

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

Journal Articles

  1. French, JD, Política, Memória, e Vida Operaria na Cinebiografia Lula, Filho do Brasil, Perseu. História, Memória e Política [Revisa do Centro Sérgio Buarque de Holanda da Fundação Perseu Abramo] no. 6 (2013), pp. 259-277
  2. French, JD, "Kill the Americans!" The US Government, Citizens, and Companies in Latin America from the Panama Canal to Plan Colombia, Radical History Review no. 112 (2012), pp. 201-208, ISSN 0163-6545 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  3. with French, JD; Fortes, A, 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
  4. with French, JD; Negro, AL, 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 [repository]

Papers Published

  1. Wolford, W; French, JD, Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State, edited by Wolford, W; French, JD, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 43 no. 2 (March, 2016), pp. 4-21, SAGE Publications [doi]
  2. French, JD, The tessitura of rights: employers and employees in labor law, 1953-1964, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 93 no. 4 (November, 2013), pp. 723-724, ISSN 0018-2168 [Gateway.cgi]
  3. Fortes, A; French, J, A "Era Lula", as eleições presidenciais de 2010 e os desafios do pós-neoliberalismo, Tempo Social, vol. 24 no. 1 (December, 2012), pp. 201-228, FapUNIFESP (SciELO) [doi]  [abs]
  4. French, JD; Fortes, A, When the Plumber(s) Come to Fix a Country: Doing Labor History in Brazil, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 82 no. 82 (September, 2012), pp. 117-126, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0147-5479 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  5. French, JD, Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 (review), The Americas, vol. 68 no. 4 (2012), pp. 599-602, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0003-1615 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  6. French, JD, 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 Fink, L (2011), pp. 3-11, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN 0199831424 [repository]
  7. French, JD, Another World History Is Possible, in Workers Across the Americas (February, 2011), pp. 3-9, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199731633 [doi]  [abs]
  8. French, JD, Robert Jackson Alexander (1918-2010) Obituary, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 91 no. 1 (February, 2011), pp. 163-164, ISSN 0018-2168 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  9. French, JD, 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 [repository]
  10. French, JD, Assembly lines: the national-developmentalist industrialism and unionization of workers, Tempo Social, vol. 22 no. 1 (June, 2010), pp. 277-287, ISSN 0103-2070 [Gateway.cgi]
  11. French, JD, How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sao Paulo, Brazil, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 90 no. 1 (February, 2010), pp. 109-142, Duke University Press, ISSN 0018-2168 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  12. French, JD, Many Lefts, One Path? Chávez and Lula, in Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, edited by Cameron, MA; Hershberg, E (2010), pp. 41-60, Lynne Rienner, Boulder [Latin_America_s_Left_Turns_Politics_Policies_and_Trajectories_of_Change]
  13. French, JD, The Professor and the Worker: Using Brazil to Better Understand Latin America's Plural Left, in Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, edited by Moraña, M; Gustafson, BD (2010), pp. 91-113, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Frankfurt/Madrid, ISBN 1936353016 [repository]
  14. French, JD, 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]
  15. French, JD, 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 (2010), pp. 84-86.
  16. French, JD, 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, Informa UK Limited [01436590802681090], [doi]
  17. French, JD; Wintersteen, K, Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 75 no. 01 (March, 2009), pp. 145-145, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0147-5479 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  18. 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]
  19. French, JD, Lula, the “New Unionism,” and the Pt: How Factory Workers Came to Change the World, or At Least Brazil, Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 51 no. 04 (November, 2009), pp. 157-169, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [abstract], [doi]  [abs]
  20. with French, JD; Wintersteen, K, 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, ISSN 0147-5479 [repository]
  21. French, JD, 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 (2009)
  22. French, JD, Obama e os limites da ousadia, Teoria e Debate, vol. 78 (July, 2008), pp. 44-48 [repository]
  23. with French, JD; James, D, 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 [repository]
  24. French, JD, Women in postrevolutionary Mexico: The emergence of a new feminist political history, Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 50 no. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 175-184, ISSN 1531-426X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  25. French, JD, 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
  26. French, JD, North American Free Trade Agreement, in Encyclopedia of United States Labor and Working-class History, edited by Arnesen, E, vol. 2 (2007), pp. 1011-1016, Routledge, ISBN 0415968267 [repository]
  27. French, JD; James, D, 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 [repository]
  28. French, JD, 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 (2007), pp. 141-43
  29. French, JD, The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions, in Global Labour History, edited by Lucassen, J (2006), pp. 289-333, Peter Lange Pub Inc [repository]
  30. French, JD, 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 Libby, DC; Furtado, JF (2006), pp. 75-96, Anablume
  31. French, JD, 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 Lara, S; Mendonca, J (2006), pp. 379-416, Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP [repository]
  32. French, JD, 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 [repository]
  33. Fortes, A; French, JD, “’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 [repository]
  34. French, JD, The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 84 no. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 315-326, Duke University Press [doi]
  35. French, JD, Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999, in Arbeit, Arbeiterbewegung und neue soziale Bewegungen im globalisierten Weltsystem, edited by Unfried, B (2004), pp. 155-178, ITH, ISBN 3931982351 [repository]
  36. JD French, Labour and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, 1991-1995, in Labour and Globalisation, edited by Munck, R (2004), pp. 149-165, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 0853238170 [repository]
  37. French, JD, Research Note: The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 84 no. 2 (2004), pp. 313-324 [repository]
  38. French, JD, Labor and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, in Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects, edited by Munck, R (2004), pp. 149-65, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press
  39. French, JD, 10.Michael D. Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 2 no. 1 (2003), pp. 137-139, Duke Unviersity Press [repository]
  40. French, JD, '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 de Fonseca, Denise Pini Rosalem,, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 19-49, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro [repository]
  41. French, JD, Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, Nepantla, vol. 4 no. 1 (2003), pp. 375-389 [repository]
  42. French, JD, ’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 Fonseca, DPRD, 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
  43. French, JD, Reviews of Books:In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil Sueann Caulfield, American Historical Review, vol. 107 no. 5 (December, 2002), pp. 1614-1614, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0002-8762 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  44. French, JD, Towards Effective Transnational Labor Solidarity between NAFTA North and NAFTA South, Labor History, vol. 43 no. 4 (November, 2002), pp. 451-459, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0023-656X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  45. French, JD, From the Suites to the Streets: The Unexpected Re-emergence of the "Labor Question," 1994-1999, Labor History, vol. 43 no. 3 (August, 2002), pp. 285-304, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0023-656X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  46. 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]
  47. French, JD, 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
  48. French, JD; French, JD, Passos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael HanchardPassos 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 [repository]
  49. French, JD, Editor, "Robert J. Alexander Papers: Interview Collection, 1947-1994" (2002) (commercially distributed by the international microfilming firm IDC.) [html]
  50. French, JD, 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.)
  51. with French, JD; Grandin, G, 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. 37-37
  52. French, JD, One-Question Interview: Watching Lula, Dialogue, vol. 17 no. 21 (8 November 2002), Duke University
  53. French, JD, 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 [repository]
  54. French, JD, ’Brasiliana’ Breathrough: Translations as Building Blocks for a New Hemispheric Intellectual Architecture, LASA Forum, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2002), pp. 12-13
  55. French, JD, Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words, Dialogue, vol. 16 no. 16 (October 5, 2001), pp. 7-11, Duke
  56. French, JD, Beyond the Catastrophe, The Chronicle (September 28, 2001), pp. 19-19, Duke
  57. French, JD, 'They Don't Wear Black-Tie': Intellectuals and workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1958-1981, International Labor and Working Class History no. 59 (Spring, 2001), pp. 60-80, ISSN 0147-5479 (Part of a thematic issue on "Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience".) [Gateway.cgi]
  58. French, JD, 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
  59. French, JD, El Auge de Los Estudios Sobre el Trabajo en Latinoamerica, Historia Social no. 39 (2001), pp. 129-150, Valencia, Spain
  60. French, JD, The Latin American Labor Studies Boom, International Review of Social History, vol. 45 no. 2 (August, 2000), pp. 279-308, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0020-8590 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  61. French, JD, The Missteps Of Anti-Imperialist Reason, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 17 no. 1 (February, 2000), pp. 107-128, SAGE Publications [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  62. 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
  63. French, JD, 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
  64. French, JD, 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
  65. French, JD, 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
  66. French, JD, 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".)
  67. French, JD, 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
  68. with French, JD; Cluff, MLP, 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
  69. French, JD, Pensar América Latina. Entrevista de Daniel James e John French, in Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho, edited by Fortes, A; Negro, A (1999), pp. 181-210, Campinas: UNICAMP (Alexandre Fortes, Antonio Negro, and Paulo Fontes (interviewers).)
  70. French, JD, Preface for Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho, edited by Fortes, A; Negro, A; Fontes, P (1999), Campinas: UNICAMP
  71. French, JD, Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss, American National Biography, vol. 3 (1999), pp. 54-5, New York: Oxford University Press
  72. French, JD, 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 Clement, N; Sparrow, G (1998), pp. 29-29, San Diego: Institute for Regional Studies of the California, San Diego State University
  73. French, JD, 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 Mackinnon, MM; Petrone, MA (1998), pp. 59-77, Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires
  74. with French, JD; Fortes, A, Urban Labor History in Twentieth Century Brazil (1998), Albuquerque: Latin American Institute/University of New Mexico (annotated bibliography with an introductory essay. 111 pages.) [repository]
  75. French, JD, 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
  76. French, JD, 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
  77. with French, JD; James, D, 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.)
  78. with French, JD; James, D, Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization, in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997), pp. 297-313 (a methodological conclusion.)
  79. French, JD, Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World, LASA Forum, vol. 28 no. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 44-45
  80. French, JD, New Works from the Duke-UNC Translation Series, Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (Fall, 1997), pp. 3-3
  81. with French, JD; James, D, Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions, Latin American Labor News no. 15 (1997), pp. 14-14
  82. French, JD, Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World, Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (Spring, 1997), pp. 1-5
  83. French, JD, Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social, Nueva Sociedad no. 148 (1997), pp. 142-157, Caracas
  84. French, JD; Brennan, JP, The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City., Ilr Review, vol. 49 no. 3 (April, 1996), pp. 572-572, JSTOR, ISSN 0019-7939 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  85. French, JD, 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
  86. French, JD, 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 Zylberstajn, H; al, E (1996), pp. 326-345, Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra
  87. with French, JD; Fink, L, The Future of the International Labor Question From the Inside Looking Out, Labour/Le Travail no. 37 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-11, ISSN 0700-3862 [repository]
  88. French, JD, A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional, Estudos Avançados, vol. 27 (1996), pp. 251-268, São Paulo
  89. French, JD, Sindicatos y NAFTA: Reflejos Nacionalistas y Imperativos Transnacionales, Latin American Labor News no. 14 (1996)
  90. FINK, L; FRENCH, JD, THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR QUESTION FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT, Labour Le Travail no. 37 (1996), pp. 221-231, ISSN 0700-3862 [Gateway.cgi]
  91. 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.)
  92. with Jefferson Cowie and Scott Littlehale, Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book (1995), Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies (275 pages.)
  93. with French, JD; Smith, RE, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World (October, 1993), Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University
  94. with French, JD; Smith, RE, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: A Conference Report, Latin American Labor News no. 12-13 (1995), pp. 3-4
  95. with French, JD; Cowie, J, 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
  96. French, JD, NAFTA y la Integración Silenciosa de los Pueblos y de las Economias de Norte América, Latin American Labor News no. 12-13 (1995), pp. 5-9
  97. French, JD, Expectativas de un Transnacionalismo Sindical, Memoria (Mexico, D.F.) no. 85 (1995), pp. 26-31
  98. French, JD, Reflejos Nacionalistas en el TLC, Memoria (Mexico D.F.) no. 84 (1995), pp. 27-31
  99. French, JD, 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 Rock, D (1994), pp. 141-165, Berkeley: University of California Press
  100. French, JD, 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 Sengenberger, W; Campbell, D (1994), pp. 19-26, Geneva: International Labor Organization
  101. with French, JD; Cowie, J, 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
  102. French, JD, Labor and Free Trade in the Americas, Global Perspective (Fall, 1994), Duke Center for International Studies
  103. French, JD, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration, Global Perspective (Fall, 1993), Duke Center for International Studies
  104. French, JD; Smith, RE, Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World, LASA FORUM (1993)
  105. French, JD, Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 41 no. 41 (Spring, 1992), pp. 76-76, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  106. French, JD, Practice and Ideology: A Cautionary Note on the Historian’s Craft, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 71 no. 4 (November, 1991), pp. 847-855 [repository]
  107. French, JD, 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
  108. French, JD, Commercial Footsoldiers of the Empire: Foreign Merchant Politics in Tampico, Mexico 1861-1866, The Americas, vol. 46 no. 3 (January, 1990), pp. 291-314 [repository]
  109. French, JD, Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 (Fall, 1989), pp. 5-27, SAGE Publications [repository], [doi]
  110. French, JD, Fifth Annual Latin American Labor History Conference, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 35 no. 35 (Spring, 1989), pp. 84-84, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  111. with French, JD; Pedersen, ML, 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
  112. French, JD, Fourth Latin American Labor History Conference, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 33 (March, 1988), pp. 87-87, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  113. French, JD, 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 [repository]
  114. French, JD, Fourth Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History no. 33 (Spring, 1988), pp. 87-89
  115. French, J, Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 32 no. 32 (Fall, 1987), pp. 80-80, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  116. French, JD, 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.)
  117. Hahner, J; French JD, , Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 25 (1986), pp. 145-147, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986
  118. French, JD, Second Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 28 no. 28 (Fall, 1985), pp. 94-94, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  119. Carelli, M; French JD, , Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 25 (1985), pp. 99-101, São Paulo: Ática, 1985
  120. Grossi, YDS; French, JD, Mina de Morro Velho: A Extração do Homem. Uma História de Experiência OperáriaMina de Morro Velho: A Extracão do Homem. Uma História de Experìencia Operaria by Yonnede Souza Grossi, International Labor and Working-Class History no. 23 (March, 1983), pp. 116-120, Cambridge University Press [repository]
  121. Blanchard, P, The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919, International Labor and Working Class History (1982), pp. 137-141, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982
  122. with French, JD; Mörner, M; Viñuela, JFD, Comparative Approaches to Latin American History, Latin American Research Review, vol. 17 no. 2 (1982), pp. 55-89
  123. French, JD, 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
  124. French, JD, ’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 [repository]

Book Chapters

  1. J.D. French, North American Free Trade Agreement, in Enchyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, vol. 2 (2009), pp. 1011-1016 [PDF]
  2. French, JD, 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 Marques, AJ; Stampa, IT (2009), pp. 83-101, Arquivo Nacional/CUT, ISBN 8589210316 [repository]

Book Reviews

  1. French, JD, Review of A tessitura dos direitos: Patrões e empregados na justiça do trabalho, 1953 – 1964 by Larissa Correia, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 93 no. 4 (2013), pp. 723-4
  2. French, JD, Review of Oliver Dinius, Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), The Americas, vol. 68 no. 4 (2012), pp. 599-602
  3. French, JD, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro, Social History, vol. 35 no. 1 (2010), pp. 84-86, ISSN 0307-1022 [Gateway.cgi]
  4. French, JD, Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospe, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 6 no. 3 (2009), pp. 120-122, Duke University Press [repository]
  5. French, JD, Resenha de O Brasil de Lula: A Gestão da Esperança, de Gonzalo Arijón, Mundos do Trabalho, vol. 1 no. 1 (2009), pp. 293-6 [repository]
  6. French, JD, 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. 6 no. 3 (Spring, 2008), pp. 120-122, Duke University Press [repository]
  7. French, JD, 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 [repository]
  8. French, JD, 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
  9. 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]
  10. French, JD, Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, vol. 4 no. 1 (2007), pp. 141-143, Duke University Press [repository]
  11. Snodgrass, MD; French JD, , 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
  12. 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]
  13. French, JD, Intimate ironies: Modernity and the making of middle-class lives in Brazil, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 81 no. 1 (2001), pp. 198-200, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, ISSN 0018-2168 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  14. French, JD, Labour relations and the new unionism in contemporary Brazil, International Labor and Working Class History no. 60 (2001), pp. 234-237, New York/London: St. Martin's Press/Macmillan Press, 1999, ISSN 0147-5479 [Gateway.cgi]
  15. French, JD; Cook, ML, Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico., Ilr Review, vol. 51 no. 2 (1997), pp. 342-342, JSTOR, ISSN 0019-7939 (Appeared in Portuguese in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo Vol. 3 #5 (1997), pp. 222-226.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  16. 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.) [PDF]
  17. French, JD, Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. By Joel Wolfe · Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. xii + 312 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8223-1330-8; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-1347-2., Business History Review, vol. 69 no. 02 (1995), pp. 238-241, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0007-6805 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  18. French, JD; Keck, M, The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil., Contemporary Sociology, vol. 24 no. 3 (1995), pp. 340-340, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0094-3061 [repository], [doi]
  19. Schneider, R; French JD, , "Order and Progress": A Political History of Brazil, American Historical Review, vol. 97 no. 4 (October, 1992), pp. 1321-1322, Boulder: Westview Press, 1991
  20. Prado, MLC; French JD, , A Democracia Illustrada (O Partido Democrático de São Paulo, 1926-1934), Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 69 no. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 360-361, São Paulo: Ática, 1986
  21. French, JD, 20.Mario Carelli, Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 25 no. 2 (Winter, 1988), pp. 99-101, University of Wisconsin Press [repository]
  22. French, JD, 21.June Hahner, Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 25 no. 1 (Summer, 1988), pp. 145-147, University of Wisconsin Press [repository]
  23. Araújo, BJD; French JD, , Operários em Luta. Metalúrgicos da Baixada Santista (1933-1983), Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 68 no. 3 (1988), pp. 622-624, Rio: Paz e Terra, 1985
  24. Davis, TB; Virulegio, AR; French JD, , The Political Plans of Mexico, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 68 no. 4 (1988), pp. 842-843, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987
  25. Vázquez, JZ; Meyer, L; French JD, , The United States and Mexico, Western Historical Quarterly, vol. XVIII no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 64-65, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985
  26. Peter Blanchard, The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919, International Labor and Working Class History no. 30 (Fall, 1986), pp. 137-141, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982
  27. Yonne de Souza Grossi, Mina de Morro Velho: A Extração do Homem. Uma História de Experiência Operária, International Labor and Working Class History no. 23 (Spring, 1983), pp. 116-120, Rio: Paz e Terra, 1981 [PDF]

Other

  1. French, JD, 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. 4-4
  2. French, JD, Obama e o desafio pós-neoliberal [Obama and the Neo-Liberal Challenge], Teoria e Debate (São Paulo) no. 81 (April, 2009) [article.php]  [abs]
  3. French, JD, Guest Commentary: The John Hope I Came to Know, The Chronicle (2009) [john-hope-i-came-know]
  4. French, JD, Understanding the politics of Latin America's plural lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social democracy, populism, and convergence on the path to a post-neoliberal world (December, 2008), pp. 1-45, Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame [repository]  [abs]
  5. French, JD, 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
  6. French, JD, Learning the Craft: The Role of Graduate Mentoring, AHA Perspectives, vol. 45 no. 8 (November, 2007) [repository]
  7. French, JD, Commentary on slave labor and Brazilian pig iron imports into the United States, Latin American Advisor [Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.] (2006)
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