| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Lisa M. Fine. The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. (Critical Perspectives on the Past.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 239. Cloth $69.50, paper $22.95.
Lisa M. Fine's book aims to be a different type of labor history, and on all accounts it succeeds. First, Fine wants to broaden the terms of debate in labor history by placing gender and gender relations at the center of her narrative. Second, she strives to write labor history that takes the point of view of her subjects seriously, even though that point of view may be politically repugnant. Finally, Fine's narrative is methodologically ambitious, combining special data, oral history, traditional documentation, and economic analysis in one compact volume.	1
While Fine does not draw attention to her methodological innovations, the range of her study gives her a different perspective on labor history than that found in most monographs. She begins her narrative in 1904 and ends in the present, reflecting on the entire history and memory of the Reo plant. This sweep and scope give the narrative a different flavor and set of findings than other works (Although it is similar in sweep to Ronald Edsforth's Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan [1987]) and brings to the fore elements of working-class history such as whiteness, maleness, and conservatism that are often handled far less empathetically than Fine does here.	. . .

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