Tobias Higbie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5836305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Higbie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Higbie |
| SIGNATURE | HIGBIE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newberry Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Border at Work
In 2000, the AFL-CIO officially embraced the call for amnesty for undocumented immigrant workers, reversing long-standing policy in favor of greater restriction and border enforcement. The roots of this new approach stretched back to the 1970s, when the growing presence of undocumented workers in the industrial workforce challenged organized labor's nationalist orthodoxy. Taking the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in Los Angele…
Making Labor and Working-Class History in Los Angeles
Research Article| March 01 2021 Making Labor and Working-Class History in Los Angeles Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie TOBIAS HIGBIE is professor of history and Labor Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the chair of Labor Studies and associate director of the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment at UCLA. Higbie is the author of Labor’s Mind: An Intellectual History of the Working Class (2019), Indispensable Outcast…
Class Unknown
Book Review| February 01 2016 Class Unknown: Undercover Investigators of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present Class Unknown: Undercover Investigators of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present. Pittenger, Mark. New York: New York University Press, 2012x + 277 pp., $79.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016)…
Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon
In his sustained treatment of the Czech author Karel Čapek's masterwork, R.U.R., Toby Higbie suggests the ways that the playwright's imagery (repeated in subsequent science fiction) of “robots” drew on contemporary fears and foreboding about industrial work. For one, the image of machine-made men bore a close resemblance to the bureaucratic transformation of factory floors under the regime of Taylorism. However, Higbie asks, “Could democracy surv…
Tied to the Great Packing Machine
Book Review| December 01 2008 Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Wilson J. Warren Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007 xi + 206 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Making of America
With over 3 million pages from some 10,000 volumes, the ambitious Making of America (MOA) project of the University of Michigan (UM) is a massive digital library of nineteenth-century books and periodicals. Web-savvy researchers will find full-text searching a tantalizing resource, and the digital images of hard-to-find volumes will be a useful teaching tool— especially for those without access to a research library. Because MOA is primarily an e…
Crossing Class Boundaries
Indispensable Outcasts
Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon
In his sustained treatment of the Czech author Karel Čapek's masterwork, R.U.R., Toby Higbie suggests the ways that the playwright's imagery (repeated in subsequent science fiction) of “robots” drew on contemporary fears and foreboding about industrial work. For one, the image of machine-made men bore a close resemblance to the bureaucratic transformation of factory floors under the regime of Taylorism. However, Higbie asks, “Could democracy surv…
Tied to the Great Packing Machine
Book Review| December 01 2008 Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Wilson J. Warren Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007 xi + 206 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Indispensable Outcasts
Crossing Class Boundaries
Crossing Class Boundaries
Indispensable Outcasts
Making of America
With over 3 million pages from some 10,000 volumes, the ambitious Making of America (MOA) project of the University of Michigan (UM) is a massive digital library of nineteenth-century books and periodicals. Web-savvy researchers will find full-text searching a tantalizing resource, and the digital images of hard-to-find volumes will be a useful teaching tool— especially for those without access to a research library. Because MOA is primarily an e…
Tied to the Great Packing Machine
Book Review| December 01 2008 Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking Wilson J. Warren Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007 xi + 206 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon
In his sustained treatment of the Czech author Karel Čapek's masterwork, R.U.R., Toby Higbie suggests the ways that the playwright's imagery (repeated in subsequent science fiction) of “robots” drew on contemporary fears and foreboding about industrial work. For one, the image of machine-made men bore a close resemblance to the bureaucratic transformation of factory floors under the regime of Taylorism. However, Higbie asks, “Could democracy surv…
Class Unknown
Book Review| February 01 2016 Class Unknown: Undercover Investigators of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present Class Unknown: Undercover Investigators of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present. Pittenger, Mark. New York: New York University Press, 2012x + 277 pp., $79.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016)…
Making Labor and Working-Class History in Los Angeles
Research Article| March 01 2021 Making Labor and Working-Class History in Los Angeles Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie TOBIAS HIGBIE is professor of history and Labor Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the chair of Labor Studies and associate director of the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment at UCLA. Higbie is the author of Labor’s Mind: An Intellectual History of the Working Class (2019), Indispensable Outcast…
The Border at Work
In 2000, the AFL-CIO officially embraced the call for amnesty for undocumented immigrant workers, reversing long-standing policy in favor of greater restriction and border enforcement. The roots of this new approach stretched back to the 1970s, when the growing presence of undocumented workers in the industrial workforce challenged organized labor's nationalist orthodoxy. Taking the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in Los Angele…
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