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- ↑ "Rollins Book Award", Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.
- ↑ See also "A Must Have Double-Bagge Item",' review of Peter Bagge: Conversations at the comics website Legion of Andy, posted 6-1-2015; and Jan Baetens, review of Peter Kuper: Conversations Archived 2018-04-10 at the Wayback Machine , Image [&] Narrative 10.1 (2009).
- ↑ See Martin Glaberman, "Remembering C.L.R. James" (review of C.L.R. James: A Political Biography), Against the Current 72 (January/February 1998). Retrieved 6-8-2020.
- ↑ See for example “Europe’s Democratic Deficit,” World Policy Journal 8.4 (Fall 1991) and “Trade Union Strategies and the Enterprise Culture in Britain,” Critical Sociology 18.1 (Spring 1991). See also Peggy Kahn, review of Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s by Kent Worcester and Glenn Perusek, Contemporary Sociology 26:4 (July 1997): 469–470.
- ↑ "Social Science Research Council, 1923–1998", SSRC.
- ↑ "Navigating Political Science: Professional Advancement & Success in the Discipline", APSA.
- ↑ This musical group was based in London, then Boston, during the late 1970s and 1980s.
- ↑ "Beautiful Banalilty" at Bandcamp.
- ↑ All three albums by Matt Backer are released on the Warmfuzz label. All Music Guide.
- ↑ "That's Why I Surf" and "A Million Candles" at Bandcamp.
- ↑ "Kent Worcester Interview", Divide and Conquer.
- ↑ “Kent Worcester – Soviet America", Divide and Conquer.
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