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 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 […]
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 […]
Interview is with Brett J. Derbes, a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Auburn University. Brett works for the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in Austin, Texas, as Managing Editor of the Handbook of Texas. Contributor:Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power Tell us a about your essay, “Origins of the Prison Industrial Complex: […]
Interview: History News Network interview with Robin Lindley, November 2017.
Podcast: “Racism and Economic Hardship,” We the Podcast interview, with U.S. Representative & DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison, October 2017.