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The Working Class in American HistorySeries Editors: James R. Barrett, Thavolia Glymph, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, and Nelson Lichtenstein The Working Class in American History series publishes research that illuminates the broad dimensions of working peoples influence in North America. We define working-class history capaciously and encourage submissions that explore waged, non-waged, and/or coerced labor, rural and urban settings, and the wide range of labor performed in non-industrial settings, from agriculture to domestic service and beyond. We welcome consideration of the diverse contexts of the lives of those who work, including legal, political, and ideological aspects, as well as parameters of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and immigration. As we seek to enhance understanding of pre-industrial and industrializing worlds, we also explore the new challenges that workers face amidst deindustrialization, globalized production, and an expanding service economy. We particularly seek projects that reflect the mobile, international, and diverse nature of capital and labor and apply a transnational or comparative outlook to the study of the working class. We find compelling work that considers the centrality of working people within the history of capitalism. The series was established in the 1970s by Herbert Gutman, David Brody, and David Montgomery, the enormously influential founders of the new labor history that recast the study of the working class into a broad and culturally resonant discipline that influenced scholarship not just in history, but throughout the humanities and social sciences. The current editors of the Illinois series are committed to the expansive vision of its founders, now adapted to the questions posed by the shifting contours of politics, scholarship, and economic and social life in the twenty-first century. |
![]() Pub Date: April 2021 Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: January 2021 The self-interest behind joining, or not joining, a union learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: January 2021 Members of the National War Labor Board and the world they made learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: September 2020 Labor organizing, machine politics, and a turning point in constitutional law learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: September 2020 The North-South divide over child labor, 18501939 learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: Cloth: February 2014, Paper: March 2020 Historical perspectives on workers, capitalism, and the Great Recession learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: July 2019 Reclaiming the life of a progressive visionary learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: May 2019 How working people from around the world imagined a new Los Angeles learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: Cloth: 2013; Paper: February 2019 New perspectives on Latin American migration to the interior United States learn more... |
![]() Pub Date: January 2019 Stoking the fires of inquiry and activism learn more... |
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