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Leon Fink
In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the years…
A systematic historical and economic overview of the state that structures the working lives of millions of Americans: the correctional state
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Presents a carefully selected group of readings on the transformative period between 1877 and 1920 that allows students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw…
Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
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These nine essays by a prominent scholar in American labor history self-consciously evoke the tensions between the worker as historical subject and the historian as outside observer. Encompassing studies of…
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author…
Presenting a new twist on classic themes of American economic and working-class history, The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and…
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The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas invites the leading authors in the field to explore themes of…
How to lead the people and be one of them? What’s a democratic intellectual to do? This dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion…
Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. A diplomatic history that…
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The often-cited shift of the electorate in the election of Trump has its roots not in a global trend toward anti-politics or a sudden shift to the right, as is…
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor-the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century-Workingmen’s Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought…
The inaugural issue of Labor offers an example of what readers can expect to find on a regular basis-full coverage of new trends in labor history.
Leon Fink,Brian Greenberg
Gives a dramatic story of 1199SEIU, an insurgent labour union that eventually established itself as a vital force in the modern labour movement. This title conveys the promise and problems…
Wolves, owls, falcons, alligators and horses are the subject of German sculptor Dieter Finke’s work, collected here. Much reduced in form, Finke’s delicate bronzes, cast from unusual materials like wood…
Seeking to historicize today’s Great Recession, this volume includes essays that uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its…
Seeking to historicize today’s Great Recession, this collection of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact…
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ‘s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators…
Michael H. Frisch,Daniel J. Walkowitz
Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research…
