L Fink
Biographic Data
| ID | 36665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Fink |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fink |
| SIGNATURE | FINK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0202-5071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Workers and the ‘Golden Age’ of Social Democracy – An Introduction’s Second Thoughts
Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction
Local Roots of Global Change? Leon Fink Interviews Shelton Stromquist about His Monumental New Book Claiming the City
Shelton Stromquist, emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa and past president of LAWCHA, is the author or editor of ten books, including A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (1987); Reinventing “The People”: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (2006); and Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (2008). More than two…
The Cambridge History of Socialism
This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the …
Amigos en Las Alturas: José Figueres, Estados Unidos Y La Construcción De La Costa Rica De La Posguerra
José Figueres’s rise to power as president in Costa Rica in 1953, his enemies activities in Nicaragua to overthrow him, and his confrontation with Anastasio Somoza are well known facts. Less well-known, perhaps, is the role of certain U.S. actors -especially “liberal Democrats”- who helped protect the Figueres regime from would-be hostile actors in the U.S. and elsewhere in the region as well as within the country itself. In this paper, I concent…
D avid M. S truthers . The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
David M. Struthers leads the reader on a romp through one of the most colorful chapters in American radical history, the multilayered and multiracial world of anarchists, Wobblies, and Mexican revolutionaries centered in Los Angeles in the first three decades of the twentieth century. The reader may wonder, however, if anarchism is not only the subject of the book but its guiding methodology as well. At the core of the connected narrative strands…
The First Precariat
The transformation of global capitalism, labor, and class relations in our own day is having a marked effect on how we study those subjects historically. Yet, as happens repeatedly in our historical discipline, insights gained from the juxtaposition and recognition of deep structural affinities between the present and the past also carry the risk of a distorted mirror effect. What questions we carry to the past and what lessons we, in turn, extra…
Builders of Empire: Rewriting the Labor and Working-Class History of Anglo-American Global Power
Paul A. Gilje. Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812
Journal Article Paul A. Gilje. Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812. Get access Paul A. Gilje. Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 425. $29.99. Leon Fink Leon Fink University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages 520–521, https://doi.org/10…
Ten Theses on The Making
Research Article| September 01 2013 Ten Theses on The Making Leon Fink Leon Fink Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (3): 53–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2149566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leon Fink; Ten Theses on The Making. Labor 1 September 2013; 10 (3): 53–56. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2149566 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manag…
A grande fuga: Como Um Campo Sobreviveu a Tempos Difíceis
O artigo apresenta um balanço da historiografia norte-americana sobre trabalhadores. Após detectar momentos de crise dentro desse campo de pesquisa, aponta os caminhos de recuperação e vitalidade, com novas temáticas e abordagens
An Interview with Seiu President Emeritus Andy Stern
Labor editors Leon Fink and Jennifer Luff interviewed Andy Stern—for fifteen years the most influential labor leader in the United States—two months after he stepped down from the presidency of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in May 2010. Here Stern ranges widely, recalling his days as a young social worker and organizer, then as the national organizing director, his involvement in the Beverly Enterprises and Justice for Janitors…
Introduction to the Newberry New Book Symposium on Larry Glickman's Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
This issue's Up for Debate section discusses Lawrence Glickman's new book, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. Introduced by Leon Fink's brief summary, the debate brings together three commentaries by Nan Enstad, Nancy MacLean, and Susan Levine. In a response, Glickman reasserts his central argument, while welcoming new angles on the field
The Great Escape: How a Field Survived Hard Times
Inaugurating a new section, Whither Labor History? Editor Leon Fink takes note of a curious paradox: labor history appears to be thriving even as the labor movement (at least in the U.S.) is withering at the vine. How can that be? A speculative short essay focuses on how the historians themselves seem to have responded to the changing, and generally more adverse terrain of their subject in the contemporary workplace. On balance, it is suggested, …
Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: An Introduction to the Newberry Conference
When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause
This article examines the experience of the Cooleemee Historical Association in North Carolina. It notes the many successes of this community history project, while examining the intellectual and professional trajectories of its principal sponsors, Jim and Lynn Rumley. The article argues that the project also became politicized and distorted, particularly in terms of issues of race relations and relationships between community and the outside wor…
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
What is to be Done—In Labor History
The following is drawn from the editor's remarks at a roundtable session on "State-of-the-Art: Labor and Working-Class History" of the Organization of American Historians, April 12, 2002, in Washington, DC. Also contributing to the panel were Joshua Freeman, editor of ILWCH and Bryan Palmer, editor of Labor/Le Travail . Particularly noteworthy among their remarks was Freeman's paradoxical assertion that " 'Whiteness' is the greatest imperial triu…
Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements
Pages from an Organizer's Life: Don McKee Confronts Southern Millworkers - and Himself
Commentary
Losing the Hearts and Minds, or How Clio Disappeared from Canadian Public Schools
VERY DIFFERENT IN TEMPER, purpose, and point of view, the three books under discussion (for I rather invoke them than review them below) converge around a seminal development: Canadian history, as taught in the schools, has changed drastically since the 1960s, and in ways disturbing to more than one side in the country's ongoing culture wars. On the one hand, J.L. Granatstein's Who Killed Canadian History? is the latest offering from a prolific a…
Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform
In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
The Future of the International Labour Question from the Inside Looking Out
SENSING THAT A NEW ERA in global history—like it or not—was upon us, we attended tbe June 1993 annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO, officially, the 80th session of the International Labor Conference) in Geneva, Switzerland. Aside from the well-documented formal proceedings, these annual gatherings of delegates from 130-plus member countries — each represented by a tripartite delegation of labour, business, and governmen…
The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor
Journal Article The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink associate professor of history University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 115–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889657 Published: 01 June 1988
Labor, Liberty, and the Law: Trade Unionism and the Problem of the American Constitutional Order
Journal Article Labor, Liberty, and the Law: Trade Unionism and the Problem of the American Constitutional Order Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink associate professor of history University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 904–925, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902159 Published: 01 December 1987
In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy
Journal Article Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty. (New York: Harper & Row, 1978. xii + 273 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access Carolina Leon Fink Carolina Leon Fink University of North Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 104–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894680 Published: 01 June 1979
The Great Escape: How a Field Survived Hard Times
Inaugurating a new section, Whither Labor History? Editor Leon Fink takes note of a curious paradox: labor history appears to be thriving even as the labor movement (at least in the U.S.) is withering at the vine. How can that be? A speculative short essay focuses on how the historians themselves seem to have responded to the changing, and generally more adverse terrain of their subject in the contemporary workplace. On balance, it is suggested, …
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century. By Kim Voss. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2882-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8119-8.) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
The First Precariat
The transformation of global capitalism, labor, and class relations in our own day is having a marked effect on how we study those subjects historically. Yet, as happens repeatedly in our historical discipline, insights gained from the juxtaposition and recognition of deep structural affinities between the present and the past also carry the risk of a distorted mirror effect. What questions we carry to the past and what lessons we, in turn, extra…
An Interview with Seiu President Emeritus Andy Stern
Labor editors Leon Fink and Jennifer Luff interviewed Andy Stern—for fifteen years the most influential labor leader in the United States—two months after he stepped down from the presidency of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in May 2010. Here Stern ranges widely, recalling his days as a young social worker and organizer, then as the national organizing director, his involvement in the Beverly Enterprises and Justice for Janitors…
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Journal Article Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xvii + 249 pp. Chart, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access John Laslett John Laslett University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 139–140, http…
A grande fuga: Como Um Campo Sobreviveu a Tempos Difíceis
O artigo apresenta um balanço da historiografia norte-americana sobre trabalhadores. Após detectar momentos de crise dentro desse campo de pesquisa, aponta os caminhos de recuperação e vitalidade, com novas temáticas e abordagens
When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause
This article examines the experience of the Cooleemee Historical Association in North Carolina. It notes the many successes of this community history project, while examining the intellectual and professional trajectories of its principal sponsors, Jim and Lynn Rumley. The article argues that the project also became politicized and distorted, particularly in terms of issues of race relations and relationships between community and the outside wor…
Culture's last stand? Gender and the search for synthesis in American Labor History
A memoir of Selig Perlman and his life at the University of Wisconsin: Based on an interview of Mark Perlman conducted and edited by Leon Fink
While beginning research on the labor reformers of the Progressive Era, I was struck by the paucity of biographical information about Selig Perlman, one of the seminal members of the “Wisconsin School” of labor historians. In seeking to supplement the existing record, I recorded an interview on January 29, 1989, with Selig Perlman's son, Mark Perlman, University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. As edited below, Mark Perlman…
Rockefeller Medicine Men, Medicine and Capitalism in America
Politics as social history: A case study of class conflict and political development in nineteenth‐century New England∗
Irrespective of party, color or social standing”: The knights of labor and opposition politics in Richmond, Virginia
Labor in the Cradle of Industrial America
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Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy
Journal Article Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty. (New York: Harper & Row, 1978. xii + 273 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access Carolina Leon Fink Carolina Leon Fink University of North Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 104–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894680 Published: 01 June 1979
The Union Politic, the CIO Political Action Committee
Politics as social history: A case study of class conflict and political development in nineteenth‐century New England∗
Rockefeller Medicine Men, Medicine and Capitalism in America
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Journal Article Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xvii + 249 pp. Chart, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access John Laslett John Laslett University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 139–140, http…
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
The Knights of Labor Commemorated and Reconsidered
The Grand Army of Starvation
Journal Article 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation. Prod, by Stephen Brier. The American Social History Project, 1985. 30 mins. (The American Social History Project Film Library, 445 W. Main St., Wyckoff, NJ 07481) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 826–827, https://do…
Labor, Liberty, and the Law: Trade Unionism and the Problem of the American Constitutional Order
Journal Article Labor, Liberty, and the Law: Trade Unionism and the Problem of the American Constitutional Order Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink associate professor of history University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 904–925, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902159 Published: 01 December 1987
John R. Commons, Herbert Gutman, and the burden of labor history
Not being a brilliant and systematic lecturer, his success came from a more individual approach. Using his enthusiasm on individuals and small groups, he accomplished more than those who held large audiences spell-bound. He did lecture and he often gave talks to large groups, but his success came from his marshalling of facts and from his enthusiasm for what he was advocating. [Affectionately known by his first name], he was generous in his prais…
Relocating the Vital Center
Journal Article Relocating the Vital Center Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 158–161, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889662 Published: 01 June 1988
The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor
Journal Article The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink associate professor of history University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 115–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889657 Published: 01 June 1988
American Labour's Longue Durée: Class Conflicts (And the Lack of Them) in Cincinnati
Recent work in united states labour history casts a curious shadow over the middle decades of the 19th century. Studies of New York, Philadel phia, and Lynn, to make the most prominent examples, indicate the forma tion of a working class and attendant class culture already by the 1830s. But at least two problems remain in characterizing and assigning significance to these developments in national (even national urban) terms. First, the con nectio…
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199
Journal Article Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199. By Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xviii + 298 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Karen Brodkin Sacks Karen Brodkin Sacks University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Page 361,…
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199
A memoir of Selig Perlman and his life at the University of Wisconsin: Based on an interview of Mark Perlman conducted and edited by Leon Fink
While beginning research on the labor reformers of the Progressive Era, I was struck by the paucity of biographical information about Selig Perlman, one of the seminal members of the “Wisconsin School” of labor historians. In seeking to supplement the existing record, I recorded an interview on January 29, 1989, with Selig Perlman's son, Mark Perlman, University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. As edited below, Mark Perlman…
American Dream
American Dream. Prod. by Barbara Kopple. Cabin Creek Productions, 1991. 100 mins. (Cabin Creek Films, 58 E. 11th St., New York, NY 10003) Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1188–1189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078980 Published: 01 December 1991
Clearing it Up with Sidney: A New Labor-Political Synthesis for the Twentieth Century
Culture's last stand? Gender and the search for synthesis in American Labor History
Fast Food Women
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century. By Kim Voss. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2882-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8119-8.) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
The Future of the International Labour Question from the Inside Looking Out
SENSING THAT A NEW ERA in global history—like it or not—was upon us, we attended tbe June 1993 annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO, officially, the 80th session of the International Labor Conference) in Geneva, Switzerland. Aside from the well-documented formal proceedings, these annual gatherings of delegates from 130-plus member countries — each represented by a tripartite delegation of labour, business, and governmen…
In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
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