Degree:

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974

Specialization:

American Labor, Urban and Gender History

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 ethnic and race relations in Chicago in the twentieth century.

Selected Publications:

"Economic Geography," in Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A historical Guide, ed. Ann Durkin Keating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 64-75.

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.

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