2010-2011 Seminars
“The Problem of Waged Labor”
Robert J. Steinfeld, University of Buffalo
“Boston’s ‘Black Abolitionists’ and the Radical Reconstruction of the Deep North”
Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Featuring author Miriam Pawel
“Transforming Chicago’s Industrial Periphery: The Early Development of Chicago Heights, East Chicago and Waukegan”
Tamsen Anderson, DePaul University
“ ‘Nothing but Union Men’: A Black and White Workers Alliance in Industrializing Chicago”
Margaret Garb, Washington University
“Land, Labor and Production in the Chilean Wine Industry”
Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
“The Acid Attack on Victor Riesel and the Racketeer Menace in Cold War America”
David Witwer, Penn State Harrisburg