The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America by Ellen Wayland-Smith (review)

Abstract

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 19, Issue 4 © 2022 by Labor and Working-Class History Association which was a longstanding “nonissue” of labor under state socialism (338). Anca Glont’s essay returns to the global significance of labor in Eastern European state socialism, suggesting “ways in which socialism’s border was not an Iron Curtain, but rather a permeable network that drew from and fed into global networks” (440). It is surprising, however, that this finding did not lead to the inclusion of the Soviet Union in this volume. Obviously, priority was given here to relating statesocialist workers’ experiences in east central Europe, Yugoslavia, and southeastern Europe in a shared history of work. Overall, this carefully compiled volume combines an impressive amount of sources and wellintroduced case studies with an inspiring research agenda. It creates an impetus for future comparative research on state socialism(s), contemporary history, women’s history, and gender studies. In other words, Labor in StateSocialist Europe, 1945 – 1989: Contributions to a History of Work constitutes essential reading for everyone interested in furthering (not only) an inclusive history of work.