Rick Halpern
Biographic Data
| ID | 136437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rick Halpern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rick |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpern |
| SIGNATURE | HALPERN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0251-1678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Snapshots as History: The Black Archives Project
oth the snapshot and the family photo album occupy an uneasy space within cultural criticism.Although in recent years a great deal of first rate historical literature has emerged on what is now called "domestic" or "vernacular" photography, critics generally regard snapshots as undeserving of analysis. 1One author has gone as far as calling these images "history's worst nightmare," writing that their banality, repetitiveness, sentimentality, and …
New York Palimpsest
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), one of the twentieth century’s most renowned photographers, enjoyed a long career during which she mastered several genres, from portraiture and street life to architecture and scientific photography. She produced her best-known work in the 1930s, a decade often regarded as the golden age of documentary photography, when the likes of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans shot southern sharecroppers, the rural poor, and Cali…
Workplaces: Pasts and Presents Takes the Digital Turn
Over the last decade digital humanities has swept through the academy, touching almost every field of inquiry and energizing a number of disciplines. Labor history was an early leader in this initiative, with pioneering digital work by Roy Rosenzweig, James Gregory, and others. In recent years, however, it has lagged somewhat, though there are signs that this is beginning to change. A group of researchers associated with Workplaces: Pasts and Pre…
Jews with Knives: Toronto’s Depression-Era Kosher-Slaughter Infrastructure and the Kehilla Enquiry of 1932
In the 1930s, a legal dispute upset Toronto’s kosher-slaughter and kosher-retail industry. The Kehilla, the governing body responsible for regulating the city’s kosher system, was accused of charging exorbitant prices for kosher slaughter. Moreover, several community butchers alleged that they had been ostracized from the Municipal Abattoir and coerced into signing binding agreements with a butchers’ association. The conflict escalated to such ad…
Empire and others: British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600–1850
Introduction - British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire the British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1850 -power, perception and identity encounters between British and indigenous peoples, c1500-c1800 native Americans, early modern concepts of race praying with the enemy King Philips's war and the danger of intercultural mediatorship the cutting edge of British culture - British soldiers encounter native Americans the French and Indian w…
Labor by Andrew Herod
Nearly two decades old, the field of labor geography has shaped the way we think about class and capitalism, demonstrating that attention to spatial dynamics can deepen understandings of increasingly global systems of production, distribution, and migration. Andrew Herod’s work was central to the emergence of this field and is largely responsible for its growing influence. As a dissenting voice within the academic community, he contended that geo…
The Back of the Photograph
Between 1898 and 1914 American occupiers tried to make sense of their new Filipino subjects, both in the Pacific archipelago and back home in the United States. Clearly racial "others," the precise status of the polyglot Filipino population was confusing to colonial administrators and a wider public accustomed, at the height of the era of Jim Crow segregation, to seeing race in terms of a simpler black/white binary. This article shows how colonia…
Making seafood sustainable: American experiences in global perspective
Making seafood sustainable: American experiences in global perspective." Business History, 56(5), pp. 860–861
A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States
Journal Article A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States Get access Gyanendra Pandey. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 243 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.99.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau234 Published: 01 June 2014
Labor History symposium: Responses
Even while discounting views normally associated with it, Robert Goldstein's article examining the political repression of the American labor movement in its formative years (c.1870–1914) sustains
Documenting the Louisiana Sugar Economy, 1845–1917: An On-line Database Project
Documenting Louisiana Sugar (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar), an on-line database project rolled out in July 2008 and now freely available, provides historians and social scientists with an innovative tool for examining one sector of the plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South. Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and additional census records, the project makes available two fully searchable database…
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
Journal Article Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Get access Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Warren Wilson J.. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Rick Halpern Rick Halpern University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, …
Not a “Sack of Potatoes”: Why Labor Historians Need to Take Agriculture Seriously
Labor and working class historians, whether explicitly Marxist or not, have tended to use models of class and class formation that privilege urban industrial workers, depicting their lived experience as, somehow, hermetically sealed off from the countryside. Despite an awareness of the intertwined and overlapping nature of rural and urban economies, most historians have treated rural workers as either peasants or slaves, and therefore fitting sub…
The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History
Introduction: Comparing race and labour in South Africa and The United States
A few years back, George Fredrickson, the pioneer and doyen of US and South African comparative history, chided ‘American labor historians’ for their failure, as he saw it, to produce book‐length c
Solving the 'Labour Problem: Race, work and the state in the sugar industries of Louisiana and Natal, 1870-1910
This article examines the ways in which sugar planters in South Africa and the United States constructed a labour problem and then moved to solve it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In both cases, planters came to believe that black labour was unsuited for sugar cultivation and production. In both contexts planters' solutions to this problem involved the recruitment of a new workforce, the racialisation of the division of…
Slavery and Emancipation
Introduction.Part I: Colonial Origins: Race and Slavery:Introduction.Documents:A. First Blacks Arrive In Virginia (1619).B. Slavery Becomes A Legal Fact In Virginia (17th Century Statutes).C. South Carolina Restricts Liberty Of Slaves (1740).Article: Philip D. Morgan, Two Infant Slave Societies In Chesapeake And Lowcountry (From Slave Counterpoint, 1998).Part II: From African To African-American: Slave Adaptation To New World:Introduction.Documen…
Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America
Racializing Class,Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and cha
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
Journal Article Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicagos Packinghouses, 1904–54. By Rick Halpern. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi, 309 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02337-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06633-2.) Get access Thomas J. Jablonsky Thomas J. Jablonsky Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
Journal Article The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878–1921. By Daniel Letwin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2377-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4678-3.) Get access Rick Halpern Rick Halpern University College London, London, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…
American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context
Journal Article American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context. Ed. by Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. x, 325 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-312-17470-5.) Get access Paul Buhle Paul Buhle Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 641, https://doi.org…
Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty- Five Years
Journal Article Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty-five Years Get access Rick Halpern Rick Halpern Reader in the History of the United States University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 596–610, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567754 Published: 01 September 1998
Immigration policy and the racialization of migrant labour: The construction of national identities in the USA and Britain
This article is a comparative study of the racialization of migrant labour. Taking the USA 1900-1925 and Britain 1948-1962 as case-studies, we examine the role of the state in constructing migration in 'race' terms and shaping the conditions under which certain categories of migrant workers participate in the labour market. We focus on debates over immigration and citizenship policy because these are key moments in the 'race making' process and t…
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context
Journal Article American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context. Ed. by Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. x, 325 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-312-17470-5.) Get access Paul Buhle Paul Buhle Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 641, https://doi.org…
Organized labour, black workers and the twentieth‐century South: The emerging revision 1
(1994). Organized labour, black workers and the twentieth‐century South: The emerging revision. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 359-383
A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States
Journal Article A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States Get access Gyanendra Pandey. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 243 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.99.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau234 Published: 01 June 2014
Race, Ethnicity, and Union in the Chicago Stockyards, 1917–1922
This article examines the ways in which unionization impacted upon race relations in Chicago's meatpacking industry. It focuses upon a period when a dynamic working-class movement sought to overcome barriers imposed by a hierarchical job structure and reinforced by ethnic and racial divisions. The movement drew its strength from several sources. The support of the Chicago Federation of Labor threw the resources of a powerful local movement behind…
Solving the 'Labour Problem: Race, work and the state in the sugar industries of Louisiana and Natal, 1870-1910
This article examines the ways in which sugar planters in South Africa and the United States constructed a labour problem and then moved to solve it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In both cases, planters came to believe that black labour was unsuited for sugar cultivation and production. In both contexts planters' solutions to this problem involved the recruitment of a new workforce, the racialisation of the division of…
Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty- Five Years
Journal Article Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty-five Years Get access Rick Halpern Rick Halpern Reader in the History of the United States University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 596–610, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567754 Published: 01 September 1998
Labor History symposium: Responses
Even while discounting views normally associated with it, Robert Goldstein's article examining the political repression of the American labor movement in its formative years (c.1870–1914) sustains
The Back of the Photograph
Between 1898 and 1914 American occupiers tried to make sense of their new Filipino subjects, both in the Pacific archipelago and back home in the United States. Clearly racial "others," the precise status of the polyglot Filipino population was confusing to colonial administrators and a wider public accustomed, at the height of the era of Jim Crow segregation, to seeing race in terms of a simpler black/white binary. This article shows how colonia…
Not a “Sack of Potatoes”: Why Labor Historians Need to Take Agriculture Seriously
Labor and working class historians, whether explicitly Marxist or not, have tended to use models of class and class formation that privilege urban industrial workers, depicting their lived experience as, somehow, hermetically sealed off from the countryside. Despite an awareness of the intertwined and overlapping nature of rural and urban economies, most historians have treated rural workers as either peasants or slaves, and therefore fitting sub…
Introduction: Comparing race and labour in South Africa and The United States
A few years back, George Fredrickson, the pioneer and doyen of US and South African comparative history, chided ‘American labor historians’ for their failure, as he saw it, to produce book‐length c
Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
Journal Article Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packing house Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. (Newark: Twayne, 1996. xviii, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-9120-5.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page…
Race and Class in the American South since 1890
Journal Article Race and Class in the American South since 1890. Ed. by Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern. (Providence: Berg, 1994. xviii, 220 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-85973-031-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-85973-036-1.) Get access Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Bernard E. Powers, Jr. College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, Septem…
Race, Ethnicity, and Union in the Chicago Stockyards, 1917–1922
This article examines the ways in which unionization impacted upon race relations in Chicago's meatpacking industry. It focuses upon a period when a dynamic working-class movement sought to overcome barriers imposed by a hierarchical job structure and reinforced by ethnic and racial divisions. The movement drew its strength from several sources. The support of the Chicago Federation of Labor threw the resources of a powerful local movement behind…
Organized labour, black workers and the twentieth‐century South: The emerging revision 1
(1994). Organized labour, black workers and the twentieth‐century South: The emerging revision. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 359-383
News of the Profession
The British Social History Society will devote its next annual conference to "Theories, Methods, and Concepts in Social and Cultural History" (3-5 January 1995, the Royal York Hotel, York). Papers from all periods and geographical areas are welcome. Three sorts of papers are invited: (1) papers on the general implications of theory, methods and direction in social and cultural history
Race and Class in the American South since 1890
Journal Article Race and Class in the American South since 1890. Ed. by Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern. (Providence: Berg, 1994. xviii, 220 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-85973-031-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-85973-036-1.) Get access Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Bernard E. Powers, Jr. College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, Septem…
Race and Class in the American South Since 1890
Immigration policy and the racialization of migrant labour: The construction of national identities in the USA and Britain
This article is a comparative study of the racialization of migrant labour. Taking the USA 1900-1925 and Britain 1948-1962 as case-studies, we examine the role of the state in constructing migration in 'race' terms and shaping the conditions under which certain categories of migrant workers participate in the labour market. We focus on debates over immigration and citizenship policy because these are key moments in the 'race making' process and t…
American Exceptionalism?: US Working-Class Formation in an International Context
The idea that American historical development is different from that of other nations is an old one, yet it shows no sign of losing its emotive power. 'Exceptionalism' continues to excite, beguile, an
North American Labor History Conference
Labor History Conference held, as usual, at Detroit's Wayne State University. Organized around the theme of "Community and Culture in Working Class History," this year's gathering directed fresh critical attention to the core concepts which were so important to the emergence of the New Labor History in the 1970s. Twenty-eight panel sessions and three plenaries approached the constructs of "community" and "culture" from a variety of perspectives. …
Respatializing Marxism and Remapping Urban Space
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
Journal Article Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packing house Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. (Newark: Twayne, 1996. xviii, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-9120-5.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page…
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
Journal Article Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicagos Packinghouses, 1904–54. By Rick Halpern. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi, 309 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02337-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06633-2.) Get access Thomas J. Jablonsky Thomas J. Jablonsky Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
Journal Article The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878–1921. By Daniel Letwin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2377-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4678-3.) Get access Rick Halpern Rick Halpern University College London, London, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…
American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context
Journal Article American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context. Ed. by Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. x, 325 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-312-17470-5.) Get access Paul Buhle Paul Buhle Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 641, https://doi.org…
Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty- Five Years
Journal Article Oral History and Labor History: A Historiographic Assessment after Twenty-five Years Get access Rick Halpern Rick Halpern Reader in the History of the United States University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 596–610, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567754 Published: 01 September 1998
Organizing the Meatpacking Industry in the United States
THE HlSTORYof the meatpacking industry and the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) raises questions about class, industrial relations, race, gender, and ethnicity in the United States. This industry's history, which entwines traditional institutional questions with those of workers' agency, suggests how changing work processes influenced workers' political development and encouraged unified action among previously divided groups. Its st…
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They tell of their fight between the 1930s and 1960s for economic advancement and racial equality. In cities like Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, and Waterloo, Iowa, meatpackers built a union th…
Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
Racializing Class,Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and cha
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America
Slavery and Emancipation
Introduction.Part I: Colonial Origins: Race and Slavery:Introduction.Documents:A. First Blacks Arrive In Virginia (1619).B. Slavery Becomes A Legal Fact In Virginia (17th Century Statutes).C. South Carolina Restricts Liberty Of Slaves (1740).Article: Philip D. Morgan, Two Infant Slave Societies In Chesapeake And Lowcountry (From Slave Counterpoint, 1998).Part II: From African To African-American: Slave Adaptation To New World:Introduction.Documen…
Not a “Sack of Potatoes”: Why Labor Historians Need to Take Agriculture Seriously
Labor and working class historians, whether explicitly Marxist or not, have tended to use models of class and class formation that privilege urban industrial workers, depicting their lived experience as, somehow, hermetically sealed off from the countryside. Despite an awareness of the intertwined and overlapping nature of rural and urban economies, most historians have treated rural workers as either peasants or slaves, and therefore fitting sub…
The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History
Introduction: Comparing race and labour in South Africa and The United States
A few years back, George Fredrickson, the pioneer and doyen of US and South African comparative history, chided ‘American labor historians’ for their failure, as he saw it, to produce book‐length c
Solving the 'Labour Problem: Race, work and the state in the sugar industries of Louisiana and Natal, 1870-1910
This article examines the ways in which sugar planters in South Africa and the United States constructed a labour problem and then moved to solve it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In both cases, planters came to believe that black labour was unsuited for sugar cultivation and production. In both contexts planters' solutions to this problem involved the recruitment of a new workforce, the racialisation of the division of…
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