Joseph A Mccartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 360468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph A Mccartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccartin |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5205-1315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing Donald Trump’s Federal Workers Union Bloodbath
Milestone, Millstone, …Tombstone? The Ninety-Year Life Cycle of the National Labor Relations Act
Will Federal Workers Rediscover Their Militancy
On March 27, President Donald Trump summarily overturned decades of federal labor relations policy and stripped more than 700,000 government workers of their union rights with a stroke of his sharpie. His executive order Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs, which effectively voided union contracts at dozens of departments and agencies, constitutes by far the largest and most aggressive single act of union-busting in U.S. h…
Counterfeiting Labor's Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics
Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors
The Railway Labor Act: Exhibit A in Our Outmoded System of Labor Law
La solidarité et ses limites: La CFDT et les travailleurs dans “les années 68”
Despite important recent work, US historians still have much more to learn about the interaction between unions and immigrants in the years since the 1960s. One indication of this lacuna is that it is difficult to cite a US study that combines both a national narrative and a fine-grained local analysis of the subject as well as Cole Stangler's revealing new volume does for the case of France in the 1960s and 1970s.Stangler's story is enlightening…
U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Democracy
Divided Unions: The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor
While writing this review of Alexis N. Walker's eloquently concise and smartly argued book, I wished that the drafters of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act had read it before commencing their labors. If the PRO Act manages to win over wavering Democratic senators and somehow avoids another Republican-led filibuster to become law, I fear we will soon find that its reform potential has been undercut by its failure to address the proble…
American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future
One can scarcely imagine a more timely and thought-provoking volume than Stricker’s survey of American unemployment, its stubborn persistence, and its menacing prospects. When Stricker sent his book to press, he could not have foreseen that two months before its publication COVID-19 would trigger a massive surge of unemployment to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Yet this book seems to have anticipated the circumstances in which we now…
Equality, Sufficiency, and the Labor Question in the Age of Human Rights
Research Article| March 01 2020 Equality, Sufficiency, and the Labor Question in the Age of Human Rights Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN is a professor of history and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2020) 17 (1): 107–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962852 Cite…
Combustible Convergence: Bargaining for the Common Good and the #RedforEd Uprisings of 2018
This article examines both the Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) contract campaigns that have emerged among teachers unions in the years since the Great Recession and the #RedforEd strikes and mobilizations of 2018. It finds that although these efforts emerged in very different contexts and with quite different levels of planning and organization, they nonetheless evolved in similar directions. Both BCG campaigns and the #RedforEd mobilization…
Is a Sleeping Giant Beginning to Stir? Federal Workers’ Unions and the Shutdown
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Everything about Lyndon B. Johnson was larger than life: his stature, his personality, and his prodigious political talents, passions, and flaws. So large did he loom that for fifty years after his presidency his presence tended to deflect scholarly attention from those who served him. At long last, Joshua Zeitz's crisp narrative moves Johnson's long-overshadowed supporting cast to center stage. Johnson's men (and Zeitz's principal subjects were …
Against Labor: How US employers organized to defeat union activism
Over the past two decades historians have devoted increasing attention to the rise of the US conservative movement since the New Deal era, producing a growing body of rich scholarship on the moveme
As Long as There Survives”: Contemplating the Wagner Act After Eighty Years
In light of the current crisis afflicting the labor movement, historian Joseph McCartin revisits the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) eight decades after its passage and the Supreme Court ruling that upheld its constitutionality. That act constituted a “momentous shift in the nation’s jurisprudence,” but making it a living reality required American workers’ efforts on the ground. In this Up for Debate roundtable, McCartin poses crit…
Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950
This deeply detailed book probes an underexplored area of U.S. labor history: the troubled battle to organize West Coast cannery workers during the first fifteen years after the passage of the Wagner Act (1935). Charles W. Romney tells the complex tale of a three-cornered struggle among rival unions, recalcitrant employers, and an often-indecisive and internally divided federal government that, even at its strongest moment, proved too weak and pl…
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers Movement Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Book Review| February 01 2016 The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers Movement Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers Movement. Aronowitz, Stanley. London: Verso, 2014192 pp., $26.95 (cloth)Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement. Geoghegan, Thomas. New York: Free Press, 2014255 pp., $25.95 (cloth) J…
Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Journal Article Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow Get access Ed. by Fawn-Amber Montoya. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014. xviii, 213 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1240–1241, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav697 Published: 01 March 2016
Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
Journal Article Child Labor in America, 1908–1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine Get access http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html. Created and maintained by The History Place. Reviewed July 2014. Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1360–1361, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav099 Published: 01 March 2015
Marshall's Principle: A Former Labor Secretary Looks Back (and Ahead)
This article features an extended interview with Ray Marshall, professor emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, and former secretary of labor to President Jimmy Carter (1977–81). An influential figure in the field of labor economics and the economics of discrimination, Marshall joined the Carter administration at a p…
Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960
Book Review| December 01 2014 Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960 Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960. Davin, Eric Leif. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010ix + 453 pp., $99.00 (cloth); $44.99 (paper) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (4): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-28011…
The legacy and lessons of the Patco strike after 30 years: A dialogue
On 1 December 2011, Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New York, hosted a forum on
Public Sector Unionism Under Assault: How to Combat the Scapegoating of Organized Labor
Democracy on the Shopfloor: We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing
Bringing the State's Workers in: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced US Labor Historiography
This article considers the reasons why labor historians have continued to neglect the history of workers and unions in the US public sector. It argues that the most compelling explanation for historians’ failure to examine the history of public sector unions is that conducting such an examination would challenge a number of deeply rooted preconceptions regarding the history of American labor since World War II. The article goes on to suggest what…
Fire the Hell out of Them”: Sanitation Workers' Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s
Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Book Review| September 01 2004 Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003 xiii + 372 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (3): 130–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-3-130 Cite Icon C…
Combustible Convergence: Bargaining for the Common Good and the #RedforEd Uprisings of 2018
This article examines both the Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) contract campaigns that have emerged among teachers unions in the years since the Great Recession and the #RedforEd strikes and mobilizations of 2018. It finds that although these efforts emerged in very different contexts and with quite different levels of planning and organization, they nonetheless evolved in similar directions. Both BCG campaigns and the #RedforEd mobilization…
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Everything about Lyndon B. Johnson was larger than life: his stature, his personality, and his prodigious political talents, passions, and flaws. So large did he loom that for fifty years after his presidency his presence tended to deflect scholarly attention from those who served him. At long last, Joshua Zeitz's crisp narrative moves Johnson's long-overshadowed supporting cast to center stage. Johnson's men (and Zeitz's principal subjects were …
As Long as There Survives”: Contemplating the Wagner Act After Eighty Years
In light of the current crisis afflicting the labor movement, historian Joseph McCartin revisits the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) eight decades after its passage and the Supreme Court ruling that upheld its constitutionality. That act constituted a “momentous shift in the nation’s jurisprudence,” but making it a living reality required American workers’ efforts on the ground. In this Up for Debate roundtable, McCartin poses crit…
Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950
This deeply detailed book probes an underexplored area of U.S. labor history: the troubled battle to organize West Coast cannery workers during the first fifteen years after the passage of the Wagner Act (1935). Charles W. Romney tells the complex tale of a three-cornered struggle among rival unions, recalcitrant employers, and an often-indecisive and internally divided federal government that, even at its strongest moment, proved too weak and pl…
Public Sector Unionism Under Assault: How to Combat the Scapegoating of Organized Labor
Millhands, Farmers, and the Legacy of Southern Populism
It is a paradox of our history that the South-a region historically identified with political exclusion-has given birth to some of America's most remarkable democratic movements. These two volumes from the University Press of Kentucky remind us again of this seemingly contradictory reality. Tracy Campbell and Robert E. Botsch each rescue social movements from historical obscurity, showing in the process how the populist legacy continues to provid…
Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
Using “The gun act”: Federal regulation and the politics of the strike threat during World War I
(1992). Using “The gun act”: Federal regulation and the politics of the strike threat during World War I. Labor History: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 519-528
Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor
Millhands, Farmers, and the Legacy of Southern Populism
It is a paradox of our history that the South-a region historically identified with political exclusion-has given birth to some of America's most remarkable democratic movements. These two volumes from the University Press of Kentucky remind us again of this seemingly contradictory reality. Tracy Campbell and Robert E. Botsch each rescue social movements from historical obscurity, showing in the process how the populist legacy continues to provid…
Without Blare of Trumpets: Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57
Journal Article “Without Blare of Trumpets”: Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903–57. By Sidney Fine. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. x, 384 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-472-10576-0.) Get access Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin State University of New York, Geneseo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue…
Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920
Divided Loyalties: The Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell
Abortive Reconstruction: Federal War Labor Policies, Union Organization, and the Politics of Race, 1917–1920
During the early months of 1919, the term “Reconstruction,” of concern to few but historians and the friends and foes of D.W. Griffith in the years immediately preceding the Great War, was again on the lips of Americans. Alabama State Federation of Labor President, William L. Harrison, noted that “Since the signing of the Armistice, and the cessation of hostilities, the questions of reconstruction and re-adjustment are being diligently studied by…
The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918
Journal Article The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917–1918. By Meirion Harries and Susie Harries. (New York: Random House, 1997. xvi, 573 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-679-41863-6) Get access Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Page 274, https://d…
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Labors Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912–1921. By Joseph A. McCartin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 and The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997 Get access Richard A. Greenwald Richard A. Greenwald State University of New York, College of Agriculture and Technolo…
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s
Journal Article Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s. By David J. Goldberg. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6004-0. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8018-6005-9.) Get access Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 200…
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
Journal Article My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965 Get access My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. By Nicolaides Becky M.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $65.00, £41.00, cloth; $24.00, £15.50, paper.) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Georgetown University Search for othe…
Labor in the Colonial and Early National Periods, to 1828
The colonies established on the North American mainland and the Caribbean islands by rival European empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an age of mercantilism, aimed at enriching the colonial powers. The Spanish, who led the way, wrested silver, gold, and other precious materials from their Western Hemisphere possessions. The Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British who followed sought similar riches but failed to find the precious …
Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Book Review| September 01 2004 Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003 xiii + 372 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (3): 130–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-3-130 Cite Icon C…
The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South
After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
After The Strike explores the effect of race, gender, and nationality in the long struggle for economic justice by men and women of the Pullman Company
Fire the Hell out of Them”: Sanitation Workers' Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s
A Historian’s Perspective on the Patco Strike, Its Legacy, and Lessons
From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965
Book Review| December 01 2006 From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965 From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965 Jennifer Mittelstadt Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 296 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (4): 94–96. https://doi.org…
The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics by Peter L. Francia
Journal Article The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics by Peter L. Francia Get access The Future of Organized Labor in American Politicsby Peter L. Francia. New York, Columbia University Press, 2006. 224pp. $40.00. Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 4, Winter 2006, Pages 722–723, https://doi.…
Bringing the State's Workers in: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced US Labor Historiography
This article considers the reasons why labor historians have continued to neglect the history of workers and unions in the US public sector. It argues that the most compelling explanation for historians’ failure to examine the history of public sector unions is that conducting such an examination would challenge a number of deeply rooted preconceptions regarding the history of American labor since World War II. The article goes on to suggest what…
The Andy Stern Riddle: A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track
Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal
Research Article| March 01 2007 Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal James P. McCartin; James P. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (1): 99–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-039 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permis…
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