Author: Seth Rockman

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human b …

Co-winner, 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University and the Labor and Working-Class History Asso …

Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a ‘general strike, ‘ the language of labor history has informed scholarly understandings of slavery. Wh …

Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike, " the language of labor history has informed scholarly understandings of s …

An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industrializing North and the agricul …