Research Interests:
My research focuses on labor, work, and social structure. In a
variety of projects I have examined how race, gender, and ethnicity
interact at the workplace or in the city to structure mass organization
and people's ability to make change or control their lives. Currently
I am working on a history of Chicago in the twentieth century for
a general audience.
Selected Publications:
After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during
World War II. Ed. with Lewis Erenberg. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1996.
A City Comes of Age: Chicago in the 1890s. With Robert
Goler. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1990.
Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization
of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
Springl Semester 2007:
HIST 103: American Pluralism
HIST 461: Twentieth Century America
E-mail address:
shirsch@luc.edu
Office Phone:
(773) 508-2215
Office Hours: MF 12:30-1:30; W 4:00-5:00
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