| Description |
1 online resource. |
|
text file |
| Series |
The working class in American history
|
|
Working class in American history.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in the United States and abroad. A diverse roster of contributors discuss how participation in current labor and social struggles guides their campus and community organizing, public history initiatives, teaching, mentoring, and other activities. They also explore the role of research and scholarship in social change, while acknowledging that intellectual labor complements but never replaces collective action and movement building. Contributors: Kristen Anderson, Daniel E. Atkinson, James R. Barrett, Susan Roth Breitzer, Susan Chandler, Sam Davies, Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Colin Gordon, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Stephanie Luce, Joseph A. McCartin, John W. McKerley, Matthew M. Mettler, Stephen Meyer, David Montgomery, Kim E. Nielsen, Peter Rachleff, Ralph Scharnau, Jennifer Sherer, Shelton Stromquist, Emily E. LB. Twarog, and John Williams-Searle"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenges of Engaged Scholarship and Teaching; 1 Labor Historians and Traditions of Engaged Scholarship: Progressives, Insurgents, and the Making of a New Labor History; Part I. Encountering Conflict, Power, and Hope: On the Front Line; Introduction; 2 Beyond Yeshiva: The Struggle for Faculty Power at the University of Dubuque; 3 "Feets Don't Fail Me Now": Navigating an Unpaved, Rocky Road to, through, and from the Last Slave Plantation; 4 Wandering through the Wisconsin Uprising. |
|
5 Immigrants in a Disaster Zone: Teaching, Learning, and Advocating Alabama's New Civil Rights Movement6 Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool; Part II. Connecting Classrooms and Communities: Education, Outreach, and Engagement; Introduction; 7 The Great Unspoken: Teaching and Learning Working-Class History from the Seminar Room to the Union Hal; 8 Teaching Labor History on the Middle Ground: Connecting the Campus, the Union Hall, and the Community; 9 The Difference a Union Makes: Graduate Employee Activists' Engaged Scholarship and Their Working Lives. |
|
10 Making History Every Day: The Iowa Labor History Oral Project and Popular Education11 The Polk School: Intersections of Women's Labor Leadership Education and the Public Sphere; Part III. Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Paths of Engagement; Introduction; 12 Launching the Kalmanovitz Initiative: A Labor Historian's Labor History; 13 My Life as a Wonk; 14 "The Soul Puts Together Its Pieces": Lessons from the Casino Floor; 15 Disability and Labor Activism: The Pains and Joys of Coalitions; 16 Engaged Scholarship and the Living-Wage Movement. |
|
Epilogue. Carry It On!: Creative Research and Social ActionContributors; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- History -- Study and teaching -- United States.
|
|
Working class. |
|
History. |
|
United States. |
|
Working class -- Research -- United States.
|
|
Working class -- Research. |
|
Political activists -- United States.
|
|
Political activists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Author |
Deslippe, Dennis, editor.
|
|
McKerley, John W., editor.
|
|
Fure-Slocum, Eric Jon, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Civic labors. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016 9780252040498 (DLC) 2016015343 |
| ISBN |
9780252098932 (electronic book) |
|
0252098935 (electronic book) |
|
9780252040498 (hardback) |
|
025204049X |
|
9780252081965 |
|
025208196X |
|
