Papers in this series were produced by faculty teaching in the intensive Summer Program in Comparative Labor History offered through the Department of History at the University of Washington. This program was co-sponsored by the Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
These papers will be made available in .PDF format shortly.
Comparative Labor History Series Titles
- Giovanni Arrighi, "Workers of the World at Century's End", (October 1995).
- Jeremy Brecher, "World Crisis and Worker Response", (August 1999).
- Craig Calhoun, "The Cultural Politics of Global Economic Integration", (February 1997).
- Robert W. Cherny, "Harry Bridges, Labor Radicalism, and the State", (October 1994).
- Melvyn Dubofsky, "On Treacherous Terrain: Labor, Politics and the State in the United States", (November 1993).
- Elizabeth Faue, "'Outfoxing the Frost': Gender, Community-Based Labor Organization, and the Contemporary Labor Movement", (January 1994)
- Andrew Gordon, "The Disappearance of the Japanese Working Class Movement", (November 1994).
- Colin Gordon, "The Lost City of Solidarity: Metropolitan Unionism in Historical Perspective", (March 1999).
- Mike Honey, "'Labor and Civil Rights Movements at the Crossroads' Martin Luther King, Black Workers, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike"
- Victoria Johnson, "The Cultural Foundation of Resources, the Resource Foundation of Political Cultures: An Explanation for the Outcomes of Two General Strikes”, (September 1999).
- Sam Kagel, "The 1934 Strike: As Told by Sam Kagel, A Member of the 1934 Joint Marine Strike Committee", (September 1999).
- Peter Lange and Lyle Scruggs, "Where Have All the Members Gone? Union Density in the Era of Globalization", (April 1998).
- Margaret Levi, "Inducing Preferences within Organization: The Case of Unions", (February 2003).
- Margaret Levi and David Olson, "Strikes! Past and Present—And the Battles in Seattle", (March 2000).
- Jacob Vander Meulen, "West Coast Aircraft Labor and the American Military-Industrial Complex, 1935-1941", (August 1996).
- Bruce Nelson, "Harry Bridges, the ILWU, and Race Relations in the CIO Era", (June 1995).
- Elizabeth J. Perry, "Most-Favored-Nation Status and the Political Potential of Chinese Labor", (February 1995).
- Joel Rogers, "'The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend': Labor and Independent Politics", (July 1997).
- Mary Romero, "Maid in the U.S.A.: Women Domestic Workers, the Service Economy, and Labor", (March 1996).
- Jackie Smith, "Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements", (October 2000).
- Joe W. Trotter, "Perspectives on Black Working-Class History and the Labor Movement Today", (April 1996).
- Peter Turnbull, "Contesting Globalization on the Waterfront", (September 1999).
- Michael Wallerstein, "Wage-Setting Institutions and Pay Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies", (May 1998).