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    Introduction to my forthcoming book
    • Jun 10, 2021
    • 22 min

    Introduction to my forthcoming book

    If all goes well, I'll be publishing a book sometime in the not-too-distant future. It'll be called something like Popular Radicalism and...
    From Steve Fraser's "The Age of Acquiescence"
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 22 min

    From Steve Fraser's "The Age of Acquiescence"

    I just finished reading Steve Fraser's masterful The Age of Acquiescence (2014), which compares the popular responses to America's two...
    The Workers' Bill
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 35 min

    The Workers' Bill

    Here's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...
    On the Unemployed Councils and the Chicago Workers' Committee
    • Sep 3, 2020
    • 54 min

    On the Unemployed Councils and the Chicago Workers' Committee

    The last chapter of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression is, I think, more interesting than the...
    The radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 2
    • Aug 23, 2020
    • 25 min

    The radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 2

    Here's the sequel to this post, from the last chapter of my Ph.D. thesis. It's just an excerpt. The main point of it is to argue against...
    The radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 1
    • Aug 23, 2020
    • 45 min

    The radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 1

    I'm kind of a "vulgar Marxist." In this respect, I suppose I'm a lot like people in the American ruling class, except that their values...
    Laboring Against Racism: The Textile Workers Union of America in the South during the 1960s
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 15 min

    Laboring Against Racism: The Textile Workers Union of America in the South during the 1960s

    [An old student paper.] The conventional understanding of labor unions and their membership in the 1960s is of a conservative and...
    Primary sources on Communists and the unemployed during the Great Depression
    • Jun 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    Primary sources on Communists and the unemployed during the Great Depression

    While writing my PhD dissertation a few years ago ("Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression"), I...
    Gender norms in a Chilean copper mine
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 6 min

    Gender norms in a Chilean copper mine

    [This was supposed to be a short outline for a student presentation I had to give. So excuse the roughness. Here are more book reviews.]...
    Brief notes on a classic historical work
    • Dec 9, 2018
    • 4 min

    Brief notes on a classic historical work

    [Old notes on David Montgomery’s great book Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free...
    Industrial unionism in the meatpacking industry
    • Jul 27, 2018
    • 3 min

    Industrial unionism in the meatpacking industry

    Here are old notes of mine on a very good book by the historian Roger Horowitz, “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of...
    The meatpacking industry; or, hell on earth
    • Jul 22, 2016
    • 5 min

    The meatpacking industry; or, hell on earth

    Here are some excerpts from a review article of a book I’m reading called Slaughterhouse (1997), by Gail Eisnitz: [....] The agony starts...
    The making of the working class
    • Aug 10, 2015
    • 4 min

    The making of the working class

    I'm finally reading [in 2011] E. P. Thompson’s classic The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Query: why was England so...
    U.S. labor history
    • Sep 22, 2014
    • 14 min

    U.S. labor history

    Power-structures never want people to remember history, because knowledge empowers. Knowledge of how the oppressed have won victories, or...

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