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DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents\nOur Second Inaugural 
 Lecture:\n\n"American Labor and Imperialism:  Friends or Foes?\nThe 
 Twentieth Century Experience"\n\nDavid 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.\n\nProfessor 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 \nWorking-Class History.  In 1999-2000 Professor 
 Montgomery served as President of the Organization of American 
 Historians.\n\nBefore 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.\n\nProfessor 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nFor more 
 information or accommodations, contact Sara Smith by email at:  
 sarars2@gmail.com or (831) 459-2542, or Dana Frank at (831) 459-2542.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/13/18447381.php
SUMMARY:Lecture by David Montgomery, "American Labor and Imperialism: Friends or Foes?"
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall, UC Santa Cruz (http://maps.ucsc.edu)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/13/18447381.php
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