Where Are the Workers?: Labor?s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites

Forrant, Robert

ISBN 10: 0252044398 / ISBN 13: 9780252044397

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2022

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2022. Hardcover. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Are the Workers?: Labor?s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252044398
• ISBN 13: 9780252044397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore how place-based labor history initiatives promote understanding of past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for working people.

A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the Workers? shows how working-class perspectives can expand our historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism.

Contributors: Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linné, Erik Loomis, Tom MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Karen Sieber, and Katrina Windon

About the Author

Robert Forrant is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. Mary Anne Trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and civil liberties activism.