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Lecture by David Montgomery, "American Labor and Imperialism: Friends or Foes?"

Date:
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Sara Smith
Email:
Phone:
(831) 459-2542
Location Details:
Humanities Lecture Hall, UC Santa Cruz (http://maps.ucsc.edu)

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents
Our Second Inaugural Lecture:

"American Labor and Imperialism: Friends or Foes?
The Twentieth Century Experience"

David Montgomery is the preeminent labor historian in the United States. He is the author of numerous books, including Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Stuggles; The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925; Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republcians, 1862-1872; and Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market; and, most recently, with Horace Huntley, Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. Montgomery's work places the collective power of ordinary working people at the center of US history, analyzing the ways in which organizing at the workplace and in relation to the state has deeply shaped US society and culture. He takes seriously dynamics of race, ethnicity, immigration, and gender as they run through the working-class experience. In all his work, he dignifies working people's alternative visions of the just society and the democratic workplace, as they have been articulated within deeply combative relationships with employers, capital, and the state--offering us an inspiring vision of our own collective history and the possibility of workers' self-management.

Professor Montgomery is the former Farnam Professor of History at Yale University and taught for many years as professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also served as Harmsworth Professor of American at Oxford University, John Adams Professor of American Studies at the Universitaet van Amsterdam, and Lockwood Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. For many years he was the editor of International Labor and
Working-Class History. In 1999-2000 Professor Montgomery served as President of the Organization of American Historians.

Before attending graduate school David Montgomery spent two years in the US Army and ten years as a machinist and rank-and-file activist in the International Association of Machinists. Throughout his academic career he has remained deeply involved in labor solidarity work and the project of keeping popular labor history alive throughout the country.

Professor Montgomery's talk at UCSC will focus on the relationship between the U.S. labor movement and the U.S. imperial project in the twentieth century, examining moments both of opposition and of collaboration, with an emphasis on the Americas.

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies, which presents its second inaugural lecture with this event, is dedicated to the study of working people, the labor movement, and the challenge of the broader global economy as it impacts the working people of California and beyond. Through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a developing minor in Labor Studies, we are particularly focused on the relationship between the labor movement (broadly defined), social movements, and democratic practices; on gender, race, and ethnic dynamics; and on labor activism in international context.

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities and Division of Social Sciences.

For more information or accommodations, contact Sara Smith by email at: sarars2 [at] gmail.com or (831) 459-2542, or Dana Frank at (831) 459-2542.
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