Yazar: Leon Fink

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers …

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world’s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relation …

From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technolog …

The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American spec …

The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American spec …

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world’s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relation …

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ‘s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators cons …

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day c …

Die Ursachenforschung nach dem für viele Beobachter überraschenden Wahlsieg von Donald Trump 2016 nannte als einen der zentralen Gründe den „Aufstand’ der sogenannten weißen Arbeiterklasse. In seinem …

Die Ursachenforschung nach dem für viele Beobachter überraschenden Wahlsieg von Donald Trump 2016 nannte als einen der zentralen Gründe den „Aufstand’ der sogenannten weißen Arbeiterklasse. In seinem …

In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water’s edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help people …

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers …

Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor-the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century-Workingmen’s Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a mo …

At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during …

Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstan …

In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the following years, …

In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the following years, …