Claire Goldstene
Biographic Data
| ID | 1528495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Goldstene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstene |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTENE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davis, California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Universities Can Be
One week before the 2025 presidential inauguration, a group of scholars met virtually and began a conversation about the multiple and overlapping crises in higher education, from austerity budgets and labor exploitation to the assault on DEI and police raids on pro-Palestinian encampments. In the intervening months—as the new administration further ramped up assaults on higher education—the group continued their conversation virtually and on the …
One Day I'll Work for Myself
Grand Army of Labor
In 2011, I was teaching a post–Civil War US survey course focused on labor history called “Work and Community” (a title and orientation I had happily inherited) and assiduously trying to explain to a room full of somewhat baffled undergraduates why late nineteenth-century labor activists had described their industrial working conditions as “wage slavery” and what they had meant. For most students it was a peculiar phrase—wage and slave were not w…
Power Despite Precarity
Among the most important labor stories of the past forty years is the transformation of college and university teaching at campuses across the United States from a stable, middle-class job that included health and retirement benefits to one where the majority of faculty are temporarily employed without the certainty of continued work or benefits. Today, approximately 75 percent of those teaching in higher education, at both public and private ins…
American Capitalism
As explained in the thoughtful introduction by the coeditors Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, the fourteen diverse essays that compose American Capitalism highlight the chronological reach, varied approaches, and myriad topics subsumed within the history of capitalism. Many are written by historians whose contributions do not depart radically from their previous scholarship. Rather, they are repositioned within the perspective of this relatively…
Revolutionary Teamsters
Book Review| May 01 2016 Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934. Palmer, Bryan D.. Boston: Brill, 2013x + 308 pp., $167 (cloth) Claire Goldstene Claire Goldstene independent scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 123–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3460987 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
American Capitalism
As explained in the thoughtful introduction by the coeditors Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, the fourteen diverse essays that compose American Capitalism highlight the chronological reach, varied approaches, and myriad topics subsumed within the history of capitalism. Many are written by historians whose contributions do not depart radically from their previous scholarship. Rather, they are repositioned within the perspective of this relatively…
Power Despite Precarity
Among the most important labor stories of the past forty years is the transformation of college and university teaching at campuses across the United States from a stable, middle-class job that included health and retirement benefits to one where the majority of faculty are temporarily employed without the certainty of continued work or benefits. Today, approximately 75 percent of those teaching in higher education, at both public and private ins…
Revolutionary Teamsters
Book Review| May 01 2016 Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934. Palmer, Bryan D.. Boston: Brill, 2013x + 308 pp., $167 (cloth) Claire Goldstene Claire Goldstene independent scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 123–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3460987 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
American Capitalism
As explained in the thoughtful introduction by the coeditors Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, the fourteen diverse essays that compose American Capitalism highlight the chronological reach, varied approaches, and myriad topics subsumed within the history of capitalism. Many are written by historians whose contributions do not depart radically from their previous scholarship. Rather, they are repositioned within the perspective of this relatively…
Power Despite Precarity
Among the most important labor stories of the past forty years is the transformation of college and university teaching at campuses across the United States from a stable, middle-class job that included health and retirement benefits to one where the majority of faculty are temporarily employed without the certainty of continued work or benefits. Today, approximately 75 percent of those teaching in higher education, at both public and private ins…
Grand Army of Labor
In 2011, I was teaching a post–Civil War US survey course focused on labor history called “Work and Community” (a title and orientation I had happily inherited) and assiduously trying to explain to a room full of somewhat baffled undergraduates why late nineteenth-century labor activists had described their industrial working conditions as “wage slavery” and what they had meant. For most students it was a peculiar phrase—wage and slave were not w…
One Day I'll Work for Myself
What Universities Can Be
One week before the 2025 presidential inauguration, a group of scholars met virtually and began a conversation about the multiple and overlapping crises in higher education, from austerity budgets and labor exploitation to the assault on DEI and police raids on pro-Palestinian encampments. In the intervening months—as the new administration further ramped up assaults on higher education—the group continued their conversation virtually and on the …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Administration (probate law (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Austerity (1 work)