A Short Q&A with Matt Hild, co-editor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Today’s interview is with Matthew Hild, a Lecturer at Georgia Tech. 1. Matt, tell me about the Introduction and Conclusion to RSLH. In the introduction, we set out to provide a general framework for the topics discussed in […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with David Anderson and Drew McKevitt, Professors of History at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. Tell us a little bit about your essay, “From ‘the Chosen’ to the Precariat: Southern Workers in Foreign-owned Factories since the 1980s.” […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Joseph M. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia. 1. Tell us a little about your essay, “Pens, Planes, and Politics: How Race and Labor Practices Shaped Postwar Atlanta”? My chapter compares the history of labor organizing at the […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Michael Sistrom, Professor and Chair in the Department of History and Director of Quality Enhancement Plan, at Greensboro College in North Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your essay, “The Freedom Labor Union: Economic Justice and […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Adam Carson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Tell us about your essay, “Beyond Boosterism: Fort Smith and the Creation of a Conservative Economic Culture.” In the […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Erin L. Conlin, Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Tell us about your essay, “African American and Latino Workers in the Age of Industrial Agriculture.” It is a case study using oral histories and archival […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with T.R.C. (Bob) Hutton, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tell us about your essay, “The Appalachian ‘Gunmen of Capitalism.’” Historians and social scientists have, for quite some […]
Today’s interview is with Deborah Beckel: Independent scholar living in Wilkes County, NC. Tell us about your essay, “Southern Labor and the Lure of Populism: Workers and Power in North Carolina.” Using letters written by local Knights of Labor (KOL) leaders in North Carolina, Deborah Beckel reassesses this late 19th-century labor union as being more […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Dana M. Caldemeyer, an assistant professor of history at South Georgia State College in Douglas, Georgia. Tell us a little about your essay, “Unfaithful Followers: Rethinking Southern Non-Unionism in the Late Nineteenth Century.” My essay is about […]
A Short Q&A with the Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Contributors Today’s interview is with Stuart MacKay, a member of the Department of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1. Tell us about your essay, “The Promise of Free Labor: Carl Schurz and Republican Conceptions of Labor within the Early […]