Labor

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James Gregory
Professor
Bruce Hevly
Associate Professor
Col. Donald W. Wietheuchter USA Ret. Endowed Faculty Fellow in Military History
Moon-Ho Jung
Professor
Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies
Margaret O'Mara
Professor
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History
Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
Associate Professor
Roseman Endowed Professor in History
Glennys Young
Professor
Chair
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies

Latest News

Professor Hwasook Nam publishes new book Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea (October 25, 2021)
Ahead of its 100th anniversary, revisiting the Seattle General Strike and the city’s long legacy of organized labor (January 23, 2019)
Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do. (January 11, 2019)
The Tech Talent is Rumbling in Silicon Valley (January 8, 2019)
New Endowment for Graduate Research in Labor Studies (June 7, 2017)

Related Research

Nam, Hwasook. Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea. Cornell University Press, 2021. Print.
Christopher Tounsel, "Negro Canaan: Tuskegee, Cotton, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" Journal of African American History Vol. 105, no. 1 (February 2020): 28-55.
"Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity" LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History (May 2020), 11-45
Lin Hongxuan. "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915 - 1959." PhD diss., University of Washington.
Quintana, Maria. Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Labor Importation Programs, 1942-1964. Diss. University of Washington, 2016. Chairs: James Gregory and Moon-Ho Jung.
Gregory. James. “Upton Sinclair’s 1934 EPIC Campaign: Anatomy of a Political Movement.” LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. (December 2015), 51-81.
Morrow, Alexander. Laboring for the Day: The Pacific Coast and the Economy of Contingent Labor, 1919-1933. Diss. University of Washington, 2015. Chair: James Gregory.
Beda, Steven. Landscapes of Solidarity: Timber Workers and the Making of Place in the Northwest, 1900-1964. Diss. University of Washington, 2014. Chair: James Gregory.
Mullins, Marty Manor. Slovakia's Second City in Times of Turbulence: Košice and its Hungarians, Eastern Rite Catholics and Steelworkers in 1948, 1968, and 1989. Diss. University of Washington, 2013. Chair: James Felak.
Benner, Jennifer. From the Iron Cage to Eichmann: German Social Theory and the Critique of Rationalization. Diss. University of Washington, 2012. Chair: John Toews.

Labor

James Gregory

Bruce Hevly

Moon-Ho Jung

Margaret O'Mara

Ileana Rodriguez-Silva

Glennys Young