Eric Arnesen

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According to Wikipedia, Eric Arnesen is an American historian. He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at George Washington University. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

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Whiteness and the Historians' Imagination (2001) (127)
Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001) (47)
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 (1993) (43)
Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History (1998) (39)
Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history (2006) (32)
“Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down”: The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880–1920 (1994) (30)
Following the Color Line of Labor: Black Workers and the Labor Movement Before 1930 (1993) (28)
Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940–1980. By Kenneth D. Durr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 284 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8078-2764-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5433-6.) (2004) (26)
Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002) (23)
Reconsidering the “Long Civil Rights Movement” (2009) (19)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2006) (18)
[Unemployment and ill health]. (1992) (18)
Stories of Freedom in Black New York; In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (2005) (18)
African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict (2000) (14)
Civil Rights and the Cold War At Home: Postwar Activism, Anticommunism, and the Decline of the Left (2012) (14)
Labor histories : class, politics, and the working-class experience (2000) (14)
The black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation (2007) (13)
There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality (2011) (13)
Specter of the Black Strikebreaker: Race, Employment, and Labor Activism in the Industrial Era (2003) (11)
Fear itself: the new deal and the origins of our time (2015) (10)
No “Graver Danger”: Black Anticommunism, the Communist Party, and the Race Question (2006) (10)
Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46 (2000) (8)
Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I (2007) (8)
Passion and Politics: Race and the Writing of Working‐Class History (2006) (7)
Crusades Against Crisis (1990) (7)
Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. (1992) (6)
A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights (2014) (6)
The human tradition in American labor history (2004) (5)
Assessing the Legacy of Herbert Hill: An Introduction (2006) (4)
To rule or ruin: New Orleans dock workers' struggle for control 1902–1903 (1987) (4)
Brotherhoods of Color (2001) (4)
Comparing urban crises: race, migration, and the transformation of the modern American city (2005) (3)
Assessing Whiteness Scholarship: A Response to James Barrett, David Brody, Barbara Fields, Eric Foner, Victoria Hattam, and Adolph Reed (2001) (3)
Labor and the Problem of Social Unity during World War II: Katherine Archibald's Wartime Shipyard in Retrospect (2006) (3)
The Final Conflict? On the Scholarship of Civil Rights, the Left and the Cold War (2012) (3)
Betting on the Employee Free Choice Act: Is Labor Law to Blame for Labor's Current Ills and Will Labor Law Reform Solve the Problem? (2010) (2)
Class Matters, Race Matters (1994) (2)
Historians and the Public: Premature Obituaries, Abiding Laments (2012) (2)
The Red and the Black: Reflections on the Responses to “No `Graver Danger' ” (2006) (2)
A. Philip Randolph (2015) (2)
El Salvador: Reminders of War (1986) (2)
On Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2020) (2)
Faction Figure: James P. Cannon, Early Communist History, and Radical Faith (2009) (1)
Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class (2000) (1)
A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice by Jenny Carson (review) (2022) (1)
It is union and liberty : Alabama coal miners and the UMW (2000) (1)
The African-American Working Class in the Jim Crow Era (1992) (1)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March. (2018) (1)
Judith Stein, The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xii + 294 pp. (1987) (1)
Pem Davidson Buck, Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. viii + 288 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.00 paper. (2004) (1)
Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960–1980. By Timothy J. Minchin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 342 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2470-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4771-2.) (2000) (1)
Sara Rzeszutek Haviland. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. (2017) (1)
Book Review: History: Hard Work: The Making of Labor History (2001) (0)
The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (2022) (0)
Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xliv + 389 pp. $49.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. (2002) (0)
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2017) (0)
The Great Strikes of 1877. Ed. by David O. Stowell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07477-6.) (2009) (0)
Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America (2014) (0)
Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960–1974 (2014) (0)
Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr. Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009. Pp. x, 216. $50.00. (2011) (0)
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (2020) (0)
Race and labour in a Southern US port: New Orleans, 1860—1930 (2017) (0)
“Dissent on the Jewish Left”: a symposium (2016) (0)
Recasting Anticommunsim: Recasting Anticommunsim (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Introduction to the Roundtable (2011) (0)
Campus activism at Yale: fragmentary memories and reflections on the 1980s (2023) (0)
Henry Wallace’s Flawed Crusade (2013) (0)
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xii + 330 pp. $39.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. (2002) (0)
Long, Hot Summers: Rethinking 1960s Urban Unrest Half a Century LaterIntroduction (2017) (0)
More Profile than Courage: The New York City Transit Strike of 1966. By Michael Marmo · Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. ix + 333 pp. Charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-7914-0261-4; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-7914-0262-2 (1992) (0)
The Stuff of History Will Be Your Guide: On the New National Museum of African American History and Culture (2018) (0)
Beneath the Radar? Untold Stories and Hidden Politics (2010) (0)
The 1890s Crisis in Context: The Pullman Strike, Labor Politics and the New Liberalism (1999) (0)
Letters (2009) (0)
Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II. By Daniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 301 pp. Tables, maps, appendices, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-521-593387 (2000) (0)
The United States and Canada (1997) (0)
Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860. By Peter Way. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xviii, 304 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-521-44033-5.) (1995) (0)
Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and its Irish Longshoremen by Michael C. Connolly, and:New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks by William J. Mello (review) (2013) (0)
« The History Manifesto »: a discussion (2016) (0)
Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs by J. Robert Constantine (1996) (0)
Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865–1925. By Clifford Farrington. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. ix + 253 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-876-11217-5 (2009) (0)
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. By Robert Samuel Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. x + 234 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-807-13363-7 (2011) (0)
Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg, Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvii + 298 pp. (1990) (0)
Commentary: Evaluating the Missing Wave (2005) (0)
The essays begin in the struggles of freedwomen in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War to create and maintain their freedom in the face of intransigent (2010) (0)
The Recent Historiography of British Abolitionism: Academic Scholarship, Popular History, and the Broader Reading Public (2012) (0)
Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World (review) (2007) (0)
Paul D. Moreno, Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. 334. $49.95 cloth (ISBN: 0-8071-3094.-x) (2012) (0)
Introduction to the Forum (2009) (0)
Introduction: David Montgomery and the Shaping of the New Labor History (2013) (0)
Out of Africa (2012) (0)
Phillips Lisa. A Renegade Union. Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana [etc.] 2013. xv, 231 pp. Ill. $50.00. (2014) (0)
Judith Stein (1940–2017) (2017) (0)
Life and Labor in the New New South (2013) (0)
Ambiguous Legacies: Michael Kazin's American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2013) (0)
Book Review: Historical Studies: Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study (1993) (0)
The CIO's Left-Led Unions. Edited by Steve Rosswurm. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 250. $45, cloth; $17, paper (1993) (0)
The Passions of Max Eastman (2018) (0)
The Limits of Solidarity in US History (2020) (0)
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. By Gary Gerstle. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xvi,454 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04984-X.) (2002) (0)
E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class: Assessments after a Half Century (2013) (0)
The Not-So-Great Society (2015) (0)
Bryant Simon, A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910–1948, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 345. $49.95, cloth; $19.95 paper (ISBN 0–8078–2401; 0–8078–4704–6). (2000) (0)
Lauren Araiza, To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 224.isbn 978 0 8122 4557 8. (2015) (0)
"Without Blare of Trumpets": Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903–57 by Sidney Fine (1996) (0)
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations. By Gary Fink. Ithaca: Industrial and Labor Relations Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 180. $26.00 (1994) (0)
American Exodus (2011) (0)
Inventing a Heartland (2023) (0)
The History Manifesto: a discussion, introduction by Serge Noiret, with contributions by Ramses Delafontaine (editor), Quentin Verreycken, Eric Arnesen (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Robert J. Steinfeld, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century , New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 329. $60.00, cloth (ISBN 0–521–77360–1); 23.00, paper (ISBN 0–521–77400–4). (2003) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis Elizabeth Dale (2003) (0)
Southern Labor Studies Conference (1987) (0)
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America. ByJoe William Trotter Jr. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xxiv + 296 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0520299450. (2019) (0)
Remembering Lattimer: labor, migration and race in Pennsylvania Anthracite country (2019) (0)
Symposium on Halpern and Horowitz: Packinghouse Unionism (1999) (0)
Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP (2015) (0)
A Tarnished Icon (2002) (0)

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Eric Arnesen is affiliated with the following schools:

George Washington University
Yale University
Wesleyan University
University of Illinois Chicago