Staughton Lynd
Biographic Data
| ID | 258078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Staughton Lynd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Staughton |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynd |
| SIGNATURE | LYND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conversations with Staughton and Alice Lynd
Alice and Staughton Lynd met each other at Harvard Summer School in 1950
Someday They’ll Have a War and Nobody Will Come
There is a contradiction in U.S. law concerning conscientious objection. The Nuremburg Tribunal was premised on the concept that an individual must refuse to commit war crimes in a particular war. High‐ranking German and Japanese personnel who were found to have violated this mandate were executed. The Nuremburg concept has been incorporated in the United States Army’s manual. Yet, the law of conscientious objection still requires a member of the…
Is There Anything More to Say About the Rosenberg Case
For more than forty years, defenders of the Rosenbergs have offered an argument unchanged in its essentials. The prosecution obtained the ultimate punishment...[—and that] punishment...was disproportionate and barbaric. However, the Rosenbergs' defenders now concede that "Julius Rosenberg, code-named 'Antenna' and later 'Liberal,' had worked as a spy for the Soviet Union."... The reason for this turnaround is that in 1995 the federal government m…
Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery
Staughton Lynd, David Waldstreicher, Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 597-630
Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, the People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up
Staughton Lynd, David Waldstreicher, Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, the People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 649-656
Underground
Prison Advocacy in a Time of Capital Disaccumulation
Any analysis of contemporary U.S. society must seek to explain the trends in the last two decades toward the confinement of more and more persons behind bars, toward harsher conditions of incarceration, toward indiscriminate use of the death penalty, and toward the disproportionate incidence of all of the above on blacks and Hispanics. In Ohio, for example, African Americans constitute about half of the 45,000 persons imprisoned, about half of th…
Revisiting Class in Early America
Research Article| December 01 2004 Revisiting Class in Early America: Personal Reflections Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (4): 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-4-27 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Staughton Lynd; Revisiting Class in Early America: Personal Reflections. Labor 1 December 2004; 1 (4): 27–34. doi: https://doi.org…
Students and Workers in the Transition to Socialism
There he posed the question: "Could it be that a socialist revolution is beginning, that Marxism is returning to its home ground, the advanced countries for which it was designed?" And he answered his own question, Yes. The main message of the May crisis was that a "revolutionary situation can occur in an advanced capitalist country."
Edward Thompson's Warrens
Edward Thompson developed a distinct view of the transition from capitalism to socialism. Rejecting the concept of a catastrophic change in which the vanguard party would serve as the institutional nucleus of a new society, Thompson argued that capitalism had been “warrened” from within by a network of local, self-governing, working-class institutions that prefigured a socialist world. In the mid-1960s, however, Thompson turned to other matters a…
The New Rank-and-File
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of l…
Reflections on Radical History
Research Article| January 01 2001 Reflections on Radical History Winston James Winston James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (79): 99-102. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2001-79-99 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Overcoming Racism
Recently, there has been a great deal of discussion about the racism of white workers. Unfortunately, little has been said or written about how white working-class racism can be overcome. In this essay, I examine a prison uprising in which black and white convicts struggled with racism and overcame it to a surprising degree.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to…
Feminism for Men
Drawing on lifelong experience in movements of social change and on the left, the author describes what he has sensed in women's lives from which he and other males need to learn: (1) compassion, as exemplified by the life of Rosa Luxemburg; (2) a horizontal style of leadership; and (3) the creation of “loose networks with strong bonds” described by Temma Kaplan. The Student Nonviolent Organizing Committee (SNCC) is offered as an example of an es…
Then and Now
John A. Andrew HI, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1997). Doug Dowd, Blues for America: A Critique, A Lament, and Some Memories (New York: Monthly Review Press 1997). Ron Jacobs, The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (New York: Verso 1997). Staughton Lynd, Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuild…
We Are All Leaders
We Are All Leaders describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse and garment workers in Minnesota, seamen in San Francisco, and labor party campaigns throughout the coun…
The culture of nonviolence
We Are All Leaders
Journal Article “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Ed. by Staughton Lynd. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. x, 343 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02243-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06547-6.) Get access Colette A. Hyman Colette A. Hyman Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, Decembe…
The Drinking, Sweating, Brawling, Hurting, Dying Mass
Our Kind of Marxist
This is an excerpt from an interview with Staughton Lynd that appeared in The Progressive (February, 1994). It is reprinted with permission. The interviewer was Jane Slaughter, the director of Labor Notes. - The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Anti-Racism in U.S. History
Introduction Anti-Racism: Denial and Distortion Questioning Racism's Pervasiveness Anti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the Literature Sexual Relations Rejecting Racism by Joint Struggle GREgoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism Inferiority and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers Inferiority and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and Cowboys From Egypt to Philosophes to Quakers The American and French Revolutions The Republic's Early Years The New Century's Youth …
Oral History from Below
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStaughton LyndStaughton Lynd is a noted historian and lawyer currently practicing in Ohio. Among his many books are Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (New York: Pantheon, 1968), Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizers, co-edited with Alice Lynd (Boston: Beacon, 1973) and The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings (San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1982).
Belated Feudalism
Journal Article Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States. By Karen Orren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Rights v. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay on the History of Labour Law in the United States. By Anthony Woodiwiss. New York: Berg, 1990 Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Niles, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Trade Unionism in the USA
These are difficult days for the labour movement in the United States, and the situation is even worse for the radical labour movement. Trade-union membership in the non-farm labour force has declined from over 30 per cent in the early 1950s to about 17 per cent today. The
Resisting plant shutdowns
The Imagination of the New Left
Journal Article The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. By George Katsiaficas. (Boston: South End, 1987. xv + 323 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $11.00.) and Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. By Hans Koning. (New York: Norton, 1987. 194 pp. $15.95.) Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Youngstown, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2…
The Genesis of the Idea of a Community Right to Industrial Property in Youngstown and Pittsburgh, 1977-1987
Journal Article The Genesis of the Idea of a Community Right to Industrial Property in Youngstown and Pittsburgh, 1977–1987 Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd taught American history Spelman College and at Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 926–958, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902160 Published: 01 December 1987
The New Left
The American New Left is actually part of an international political tendency. Despite differences in form, student movements of the 1960's in the United States, West Europe, and Japan share common concerns: rejection of both capitalism and bureaucratic communism, anti-imperialism, and an activist orientation, violent or nonviolent. The main intel lectual emphases of the American New Left appear to be anti- scholasticism, utopianism, and activism…
We Are All Leaders
Journal Article “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Ed. by Staughton Lynd. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. x, 343 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02243-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06547-6.) Get access Colette A. Hyman Colette A. Hyman Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, Decembe…
We Are All Leaders
We Are All Leaders describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse and garment workers in Minnesota, seamen in San Francisco, and labor party campaigns throughout the coun…
The Fight against Shutdowns
Patriots and Partisans
Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery
Staughton Lynd, David Waldstreicher, Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 597-630
Belated Feudalism
Journal Article Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States. By Karen Orren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Rights v. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay on the History of Labour Law in the United States. By Anthony Woodiwiss. New York: Berg, 1990 Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Niles, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Compromise of 1787
Journal Article The Compromise of 1787 Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 81, Issue 2, June 1966, Pages 225–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2147971 Published: 15 June 1966
Underground
Picket Line and Ballot Box
Research Article| January 01 1980 Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Local Labor Party Movement, 1932–1936 Eric Leif Davin; Eric Leif Davin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1980) 1979-80 (22): 43–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1979-80-22-43 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Per…
Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution
Journal Article Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution. By Staughton Lynd. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. xiii + 288 pp. Maps, chart, tables, notes, and index. $7.50.) Get access Joseph C. Burke Joseph C. Burke Duquesne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 4, March 1969, Pages 860–861, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900168 Published: 0…
On Turner, Beard and Slavery
The mechanics in New York politics, 1774–1788
(1964). The mechanics in New York politics, 1774–1788. Labor History: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 225-246
The New Rank-and-File
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of l…
Overcoming Racism
Recently, there has been a great deal of discussion about the racism of white workers. Unfortunately, little has been said or written about how white working-class racism can be overcome. In this essay, I examine a prison uprising in which black and white convicts struggled with racism and overcame it to a surprising degree.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to…
Oral History from Below
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStaughton LyndStaughton Lynd is a noted historian and lawyer currently practicing in Ohio. Among his many books are Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (New York: Pantheon, 1968), Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizers, co-edited with Alice Lynd (Boston: Beacon, 1973) and The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings (San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1982).
Intellectuals, the University, and the Movement
I ask that consider carefully whether the American university is realistically likely to become, in the words of the conference call, a place where we may freely express the radical content of our lives and a base which will export humane values to other institutions in the society. Asking that question also means not accepting unthinkingly the equation of radical intellectual and full-time academic. Even in America this equation is inaccurate: s…
Rethinking Slavery and Reconstruction
Who Should Rule at Home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution
Notes on the Chinese Revolution
The Chinese Revolution is the greatest event in the life of anyone under thirty. The story of the Revolution has been told in the wonderful books of Anna Louise Strong, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow, Nym Wales, Jack Belden, and Derk Bodde. But a good analysis of the Chinese Revolution is, so far as I know, still lacking. The following notes are intended to stimulate discussion directed towards such an analysis.This article can also be found at the Mo…
Who Should Rule at Home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution
Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent
Anti-Federalism in Dutchess County, New York
Journal Article Anti-Federalism in Dutchess County, New York: A Study of Democracy and Class Conflict in the Revolutionary Era. By Staughton Lynd. William P. Lyons Master's Essay Award, 1961. (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962. x + 126 pp. Maps, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $3.00.) Get access Lawrence H. Leder Lawrence H. Leder Louisiana State University in New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Capitalism, Democracy and the United States Constitution
Anti-Federalism in Dutchess County, New York
Patriots and Partisans
Ralph McGill, The South and the Southerner
On Turner, Beard and Slavery
Abraham Yates's History of the Movement for the United States Constitution
4 A Tleast as far back as 1871, Richard B. Morris has observed, Henry B. Dawson focused attention on the masses in the Revolution and suggested the thesis of counterrevolution and in interpreting the United States Constitution.1 In fact, an unpublished history of the movement for the Constitution made the same charge almost a century earlier. About a year after ratification and i25 years before Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Co…
Anti-Federalism in Dutchess County, New York
The mechanics in New York politics, 1774–1788
(1964). The mechanics in New York politics, 1774–1788. Labor History: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 225-246
Thomas F. Gossett, Race
Clement Eaton, The Mind of the Old South
Rethinking Slavery and Reconstruction
E Pluribus Unum
Lying in State
Review of Inquest by Edward J. Epstein; Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir; Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Compromise of 1787
Journal Article The Compromise of 1787 Get access Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 81, Issue 2, June 1966, Pages 225–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2147971 Published: 15 June 1966
The Lamp of Experience
The Role of the American Working Class
Review of American Disciples of Marx from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era by David Herreshoff.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Thorstein Veblen
Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution
The Road to Independence
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism
Journal Article Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism. By Staughton Lynd. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. vii + 184 pp. Notes and index. $4.95.) Get access Charles A. Barker Charles A. Barker Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 3, December 1968, Pages 633–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891030 Published: 01 December 1968
Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution
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