Alex Lichtenstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 75924 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alex Lichtenstein |
| PRENOMES | Alex |
| SOBRENOME | Lichtenstein |
| ASSINATURA | LICHTENSTEIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9928-4247 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Crisis in Higher Education
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Memory over Forgetting
The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials-and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These "memorial wars" built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, correspon…
Privileged Precariat
Quite naturally, the bulk of South African labor history focuses on the experience of Black workers and their significant contribution to the country's liberation from apartheid. Increasingly, though, scholars have turned their attention to the history of South Africa's small but powerful white working class. South Africa's white workers—its gold and coal miners in particular—have a rich history of both militancy and the embrace of racial privile…
Labor’s Red century
Under the Southern Cross
In 1951, deaf/blind activist Helen Keller, then seventy years old, made a 10-week tour of South Africa. She visited nearly thirty schools and institutions for the deaf and blind and attended nearly fifty meetings. Keller is well known in disability history, women’s history, and progressivism. Less well known is her host, Arthur Blaxall, an Anglican priest in South Africa who was an advocate for the deaf and blind and an opponent of apartheid. Kel…
My Soul Is a Witness
The making of South African revolutionaries
‘Much seemed possible in 1960’ (p. 12), writes Paul Landau at the outset of Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries, his richly detailed account of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) transition
Passage to Africa
There is something fascinating about historians’ memoirs, when scholars become their own subjects. Is there, we wonder, a foreshadowing of future intellectual and professional preoccupations to be found in their childhood experience? In some instances—Saul Friedlander and Eric Hobsbawm, Jewish refugees from nazified Europe come to mind—the connection seems close. In others, more remote. The late Bill Freund’s autobiography, subtitled An Historian…
Journalism and Jim Crow
After Reconstruction, white publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South that lasted for generations. Black journalists fought these regimes as they were being built. The stakes could not have been higher: The future of liberal democracy in the newly restored United States was on the line. Journalism & Jim Crow is the first extended work to exa…
Another World Is Possible
My familiarity with Brazilian working-class history remains limited. To the degree that I have any at all, it comes through three decades of interactions with John French and some of his familiar associates in Brazilian and Latin American labor history, especially Paulo Fontes, Alexandre Fortes, and my colleagues Daniel James and Jeff Gould at Indiana University. For me, however, French's biographical approach to the social history of the modern …
Dockworkers or “Docked” Workers
Sentimos que nossa força está no chão de fábrica
Este artigo explora a transformação das relações de trabalho sul-africanas durante os anos 80. Em 1979, motivada pela nova militância de chão de fábrica, a Comissão Wiehahn recomendou que os trabalhadores negros, anteriormente excluídos da maquinaria de trabalho do Estado, fossem autorizados a se unir a sindicatos reconhecidos. A maioria das discussões sobre essa mudança nas relações de trabalho do apartheid concentra-se no debate que se seguiu d…
We feel that our strength is on the factory floor”
This article explores the transformation of South African labor relations during the 1980s. In 1979, prompted by new shop-floor militancy, the Wiehahn Commission recommended that black workers, previously excluded from state labor machinery, be permitted to join recognized trade unions. Most discussions of this shift in apartheid labor relations focus on the ensuing debate within the black unions, torn between preserving their independence or sec…
Introduction
On June 28, 1919, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations came into force, establishing three types of “mandatory” power over the territories that had fallen into the hands of the victors of the Great War. The now cringe-worthy text of Article 22 seems worth quoting at length: To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and …
On Durban’s Docks
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
We do not think that the Bantu is ready for labour unions’
This article explores the response of employers and the apartheid state to the Durban strikes of 1973, as they sought to remake industrial relations while preserving racial capitalism. After 1970, South African manufacturers faced a new set of challenges. Export markets shrank, while the domestic market remained severely limited because of dependence on low-wage black labour. Low productivity made it hard to compete globally, yet growth based on …
Rick Turner, Participatory Democracy and Workers’ Control
This article considers the contribution of radical South African philosopher Rick Turner to theories of ‘workers’ control’. Turner’s philosophical work, especially his book, The Eye of the Needle (1972), posited the workplace as a fundamental site of ‘participatory democracy’ and a space for the potential radical transformation of South African society. During the early 1970s, Turner’s philosophical writings, teaching at the University of Natal, …
Challenging 'umthetho we femu' (the law of the firm)
As part of a growing working-class movement that sought full legal status as employees in South Africa, stable urban residence and union recognition, female African factory workers became part of a dynamic new labour movement emanating from the shop floor. At the same time, this new role allowed them to challenge patriarchal structures of authority in the factory, the community and the home. This article examines the gender dimension of a bitter …
Chained in Silence
Talitha LeFlouria’s study of women caught up in the horrific penal system of Georgia in the years between the end of the US Civil War and the coming of the Great Depression of the 1930s builds on a
Communications
A letter to the editor will be considered for publication only if it relates to an article or review published in the AHR. Letters should not exceed 1,000 words. They can be submitted by e-mail to [email protected], either as a Microsoft Word attachment or within the body of the message. Publication is solely at the editors' discretion. The AHA disclaims responsibility for statements, of either fact or opinion, made by the writers. For detailed inf…
Global Convict Labour
A Measure of Democracy’
By the early 1970s the permanent, urbanised African working class in manufacturing had reached a critical mass. Frustrated by poor wages, pressed by an inflationary economy, and barred from state-sanctioned trade unions, African workers engaged in a series of explosive, spontaneous, strikes in Natal in 1973. Faced with this shop-floor turmoil, the South African business class recognized a looming crisis in the labour field, bemoaning a shortage o…
Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Pick up any recent textbook on modern U.S. history, turn to the last few chapters, and you will find an outline of key developments that have shaped the past four decades or so of the nation’s domestic history. Some chapter headings include “The Decline of Manufacturing,” “Retreat from Liberalism,” “The Beleaguered Social Compact,” “The Rising Tide of Conservatism,” “The Problem of Inequality,” “The End of the Long Boom,” and “Conservatism in the…
Harold Wolpe and the labour question
Steven Friedman comes to the task of revisiting the work of South African Marxist intellectual, Harold Wolpe, with an ideal resume. A student radical at the University of Witwatersrand in the early
Writing a Global History of Convict Labour
This bibliographic essay seeks to contribute to the understanding of convict labour from a global and long-term perspective. First the conditions conducive to the emergence and transformation of convict labour are addressed by framing this coercive labour form within broader classifications of labour relations and by discussing its connection with the problem of governmentality. Subsequently, an overview of the literature is undertaken in the for…
Good Roads and Chain Gangs in the Progressive South
Making Apartheid Work
Most analyses of apartheid labor policy focus on the regulation of the labor market rather than the industrial workplace. Instead, this article investigates the administration of South Africa's 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act to examine shop-floor control rather than influx control. The article argues that in response to the threat of African trade unionism, apartheid policymakers in the Department of Labour addressed the problem …
Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Pick up any recent textbook on modern U.S. history, turn to the last few chapters, and you will find an outline of key developments that have shaped the past four decades or so of the nation’s domestic history. Some chapter headings include “The Decline of Manufacturing,” “Retreat from Liberalism,” “The Beleaguered Social Compact,” “The Rising Tide of Conservatism,” “The Problem of Inequality,” “The End of the Long Boom,” and “Conservatism in the…
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
A Measure of Democracy’
By the early 1970s the permanent, urbanised African working class in manufacturing had reached a critical mass. Frustrated by poor wages, pressed by an inflationary economy, and barred from state-sanctioned trade unions, African workers engaged in a series of explosive, spontaneous, strikes in Natal in 1973. Faced with this shop-floor turmoil, the South African business class recognized a looming crisis in the labour field, bemoaning a shortage o…
Only One Place of Redress
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, these laws restricted in particular the job mobility…
The Private and the Public in Penal History
Much of the recent commentary on America's incarceration crisis operates on the assumption that penal practice is a matter of public policy, susceptible to rational debate about social good and social harm in the public sphere. This essay takes a far more pessimistic view, arguing that in historical perspective punishment in America has deep roots in the private sphere. Historically, the form and frequency of punishment in the United States has b…
We feel that our strength is on the factory floor”
This article explores the transformation of South African labor relations during the 1980s. In 1979, prompted by new shop-floor militancy, the Wiehahn Commission recommended that black workers, previously excluded from state labor machinery, be permitted to join recognized trade unions. Most discussions of this shift in apartheid labor relations focus on the ensuing debate within the black unions, torn between preserving their independence or sec…
On Durban’s Docks
We do not think that the Bantu is ready for labour unions’
This article explores the response of employers and the apartheid state to the Durban strikes of 1973, as they sought to remake industrial relations while preserving racial capitalism. After 1970, South African manufacturers faced a new set of challenges. Export markets shrank, while the domestic market remained severely limited because of dependence on low-wage black labour. Low productivity made it hard to compete globally, yet growth based on …
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies seeks to broaden discussion of the history of rural labor in the post-Civil War US South beyond the confines of the cotton plantation, studies of sharecropping, and black-white race relations. This introduction summarizes the contributions to the special issue, highlighting their most significant points. Collectively, five interrelated issues emerge from the essays: the role of the state in med…
Industrial Slavery and the Tragedy of Robert Starobin
Challenging 'umthetho we femu' (the law of the firm)
As part of a growing working-class movement that sought full legal status as employees in South Africa, stable urban residence and union recognition, female African factory workers became part of a dynamic new labour movement emanating from the shop floor. At the same time, this new role allowed them to challenge patriarchal structures of authority in the factory, the community and the home. This article examines the gender dimension of a bitter …
Chained in Silence
Talitha LeFlouria’s study of women caught up in the horrific penal system of Georgia in the years between the end of the US Civil War and the coming of the Great Depression of the 1930s builds on a
A “Labor History” of Mass Incarceration
This essay suggests what a labor-based history of the U.S. carceral state in the twentieth century might look like. In particular, it argues that the bifurcation of prison studies into examinations of life “behind the walls” and the place of incarceration in the society at large obscures the central role punishment plays in mediating labor relations and the labor market in modern America. The best emerging studies of the prison, however, manage t…
Herbert Hill and the “Negro Question”
Research Article| May 01 2006 Herbert Hill and the “Negro Question” Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (2): 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2005-008 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 Citation Alex Licht…
Ned Cobb's children
Many scholars regard segregation in the US South as part of urbanization and modernization. Yet few have examined race relations in the countryside. The Rural Face of White Supremacy shows that absolute separation based on race proved poorly adapted to rural life. Inspired by the sociological studies of the rural South done in the 1930s and the 1940s, this book uses oral history to show that interracial social life in mid-twentieth century rural …
The hope for white and black'? race, labour and the state in South Africa and The United States, 1924-1956
This article compares US and South African labour relations from 1935 to 1956, a period that saw the rise and decline of left‐led trade unions, significant initiatives of independent black trade unionism, and a new receptivity on the part of some white trade unionists to cooperation with the black working class. However, interracial unionism in both the US and South Africa fell victim to a post‐war anti‐left purge, unfavourable legal structures a…
Industrial Slavery and the Tragedy of Robert Starobin
Origins of a New Synthesis
The publisher's press release that accompanied the publication of The Promise of the New South throws down the gauntlet: Edward Ayers has even more inclusive history of the period than Woodward. C. Vann Woodward himself admits, in a publisher's blurb, that Ayers has the synthesis that Woodward had called for two decades before. And in his engaging preface, Ayers confesses that Woodward's Origins of the New South (1951) never far from my mind (p. …
James Bowron
Good Roads and Chain Gangs in the Progressive South
Black Labor And Technological Change At A National Historic Landmark
Research Article| May 01 1993 Black Labor And Technological Change At A National Historic Landmark: Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama. Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 119–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-56-119 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alex Lichtenstein; Black Labor And Technological C…
The Problem of Freedom
A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire.--C. Vann Woodward. Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces.--David Barry Gaspar
Racial Conflict and Racial Solidarity in the Alabama Coal Strike of 1894
Iron and Steel
Journal Article Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1873–1920. By Henry M. McKiven Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 223 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8078-2188-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4524-8.) Get access Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves
Slavery Revisited
Ball and chain
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Worse Than Slavery
Twice the Work of Free Labor
This volume is both a study of penal labour in the Southern United States and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War. The book reveals that the economic modernization of the South was largely promoted through the use of forced black labour - penal slavery. The new class of modernizers, it argues, did not hesitate to use these leased convicts, thereby ensuring the continuation of racial domination
Twice the Work of Free Labor
Journal Article Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. By Alex Lichtenstein, One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. By Matthew J. Mancini and “Worse than Slavery”: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice By David M. Oshinsky Get access Glenn Feldman Glenn Feldman University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves
Part 1 Negotiating slavery - informal contracts and cash rewards: chattel slaves to wage slaves - a Jamaican case study, Mary Turner strategies into slave subsistence - the Jamaican case reconsidered, R.B. Sheridan strategies of slave subsistence - foods, markets and survival, Michael Mullin Never on Sunday? - slavery and the Sabbath in Lawacountry, Georgia 1750-1830, Betty Wood work and resistance in the New Republic - the case of Chesapeake 177…
Twice the Work of Free Labor
Putting Labor's House in Order
(1998). Putting Labor's House in Order: The Transport Workers Union and labor anti-Communism in Miami during the 1940s. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 7-23
"The Cold War and The "Negro Question
Research Article| October 01 1998 The Cold War and The “Negro Question” Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 185–193. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1998-72-185 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alex Lichtenstein; The Cold War and The “Negro Question”. Radical History Review 1 October 1998; 1998 (72): 185–193…
Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil
One Dies, Get Another
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928 Get access Mancini Matthew J.. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xi, 283 pp. $34.95. Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Janua…
One Dies, Get Another
The Private and the Public in Penal History
Much of the recent commentary on America's incarceration crisis operates on the assumption that penal practice is a matter of public policy, susceptible to rational debate about social good and social harm in the public sphere. This essay takes a far more pessimistic view, arguing that in historical perspective punishment in America has deep roots in the private sphere. Historically, the form and frequency of punishment in the United States has b…
Race, Jobs, and the War
This slim volume offers a modest defense of the work of the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC), the World War II federal agency charged with combating job discrimination in wartime industry. Despite its very real limitations, Andrew Edmund Kersten argues, the FEPC “influenced the course of civil rights reform” and became a “postwar model” for efforts to challenge employment discrimination. Established in 1941 by executive order of Presiden…
Contesting the New South Order
Journal Article Contesting the New South Order: The 1914– 1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills Get access Contesting the New South Order: The 1914– 1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills. By Kuhn Clifford M.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn0-8078-2644-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn0-8078-4973-1.) Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein Alex Rice UniversityHouston, Texas Search for other works by this author…
The CIO in Black and White
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