History and Power Across American Borders
Keynote Lecture: David Montgomery:
“Workers’ Movements in the U.S. Confront Imperialism: The Twentieth-Century Experience”
5 pm, Isenberg School of Management Building Room 137
Registration in SOM from 8:45-9:30 am.
Panels:
American Diplomacy, American Empire
Cultures of Labor and Immigration
Local Cultures, Local Borders
Race and Empire
Postwar Activism in America
American Culture in Europe, European Culture in the Americas
David Montgomery is the Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and past-President of the Organization of American Historians. His several books include The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1989), Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (1993), and Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles (1979).
This conference is sponsored by the UMass-Amherst History Department and Graduate History Association, Graduate School and College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Graduate Student Senate, the W.E.B. DuBois Afro-American Studies Department, and the Women’s Studies Department.