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"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 particip...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fure-Slocum, Eric Jon (Editor ), McKerley, John W. (Editor ), Deslippe, Dennis (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working class > Study and teaching.
Working class > Research.
Political activists.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Activistes > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > Recherche > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > Histoire > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis.
Political activists > United States.
Working class > Research > United States.
Working class > History > Study and teaching > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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