Jeffrey Helgeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Helgeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Helgeson |
| SIGNATURE | HELGESON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Journal Article Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank Get access Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M Jacoby. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xii, 354 pp. $35.00.) Jeffrey Helgeson Jeffrey Helgeson Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston
Dans les années 1960 et 1970, alors que la ville de Boston connaît une grave crise économique et sociale et apparaît en déclin, des hommes d’affaires se mobilisent pour lancer un certain nombre d’initiatives qui permettront à la ville de s’imposer comme le chef de file d’une renaissance urbaine fondée sur les nouvelles technologies et les services professionnels. Au même moment, les décideurs, qui imposent des réformes d’en haut, sont à l’origine…
When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City. By Roger Guy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xxii, 255 pp. $100.00.) Jeffrey Helgeson Jeffrey Helgeson Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality
Marcia Walker-McWilliams's Reverend Addie Wyatt is a deeply informative biography of a nationally renowned labor, civil rights, and religious leader based in post–World War II black Chicago. Walker-McWilliams has discovered more about Rev. Addie Wyatt's life than any other scholar, ranging from stories about Wyatt's background in Mississippi that Wyatt herself had not known to her role as elder stateswoman in the late twentieth-century labor move…
Lionel Kimble Jr. A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955
Lionel Kimble Jr.’s A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955 is a well-grounded, straightforward work of archive-based history. Kimble delves into the local records to tell stories of black Chicagoans fighting for fair access to quality housing and for good jobs during the Great Depression, for housing for black workers in World War II–related industries, and for good housing and jobs for retur…
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Beyond a Long Civil Rights Movement
The State of Blame in American Cities: Race, Wealth, and the Politics of Housing
Chicago's Labor Trail: Labor History as Collaborative Public History
Historians of labor and working-class life face a powerful public amnesia; they seek to recover a past of struggle for economic security and dignity at work that is all too often obscured or even suppressed by consensual accounts of American history. Public historians necessarily work against similar lapses in popular memory. Historian Max Page has invoked the oppositional character of public history, which he asserts, “should by all rights be a …
Is It Labor or Is It Working Class?”: The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium
On 17–18 April 2004, the Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) met at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formed in 1994, MLWCH is a consortium of graduate students and faculty connected to the Midwest either through research interest or institutional affiliation. MLWCH exists to foster scholarly exchange amongst the field's future and current practitioners, provide an informal setting for students to present and receive f…
Is It Labor or Is It Working Class?”: The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium
On 17–18 April 2004, the Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) met at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formed in 1994, MLWCH is a consortium of graduate students and faculty connected to the Midwest either through research interest or institutional affiliation. MLWCH exists to foster scholarly exchange amongst the field's future and current practitioners, provide an informal setting for students to present and receive f…
Chicago's Labor Trail: Labor History as Collaborative Public History
Historians of labor and working-class life face a powerful public amnesia; they seek to recover a past of struggle for economic security and dignity at work that is all too often obscured or even suppressed by consensual accounts of American history. Public historians necessarily work against similar lapses in popular memory. Historian Max Page has invoked the oppositional character of public history, which he asserts, “should by all rights be a …
The State of Blame in American Cities: Race, Wealth, and the Politics of Housing
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Beyond a Long Civil Rights Movement
Lionel Kimble Jr. A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955
Lionel Kimble Jr.’s A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955 is a well-grounded, straightforward work of archive-based history. Kimble delves into the local records to tell stories of black Chicagoans fighting for fair access to quality housing and for good jobs during the Great Depression, for housing for black workers in World War II–related industries, and for good housing and jobs for retur…
Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality
Marcia Walker-McWilliams's Reverend Addie Wyatt is a deeply informative biography of a nationally renowned labor, civil rights, and religious leader based in post–World War II black Chicago. Walker-McWilliams has discovered more about Rev. Addie Wyatt's life than any other scholar, ranging from stories about Wyatt's background in Mississippi that Wyatt herself had not known to her role as elder stateswoman in the late twentieth-century labor move…
When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City. By Roger Guy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xxii, 255 pp. $100.00.) Jeffrey Helgeson Jeffrey Helgeson Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston
Dans les années 1960 et 1970, alors que la ville de Boston connaît une grave crise économique et sociale et apparaît en déclin, des hommes d’affaires se mobilisent pour lancer un certain nombre d’initiatives qui permettront à la ville de s’imposer comme le chef de file d’une renaissance urbaine fondée sur les nouvelles technologies et les services professionnels. Au même moment, les décideurs, qui imposent des réformes d’en haut, sont à l’origine…
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Journal Article Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank Get access Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M Jacoby. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xii, 354 pp. $35.00.) Jeffrey Helgeson Jeffrey Helgeson Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Political science (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Spanish Civil War (3 works)