Robert H Zieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 975366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert H Zieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zieger |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEGER R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Commonsense Anticommunism is a thoughtful and fair-minded examination of the stance of the American Federation of Labor (afl) regarding civil liberties in the World War I–World War II era. Jennifer Luff's careful account of the troubled relations between civil libertarians and a labor movement confronted by both governmental repression and radical challenges addresses a key aspect of labor liberalism during this turbulent period. Based on thoroug…
Life and labor in the new New South
The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Early, Steve. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011xxv + 409 pp., $17.00 (paper) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1726081 Cite…
Walmart and the broken narrative of US labor history
Labor History symposium: David Witwer , Shadow of the Racketeer
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, by David Witwer, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03417-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-07666-4 (paper) David Witwer's Shado
The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940, edited by John A. Stuart and John F. Stack, Jr
The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009
Book Review| December 01 2010 The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston, and Jasmien Van Daele Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2009 xvi + 272 pp., $50.00 (paper) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (4): 98–99. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-040 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twi…
The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights since Emancipation (2007)
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Labor History symposium: Robert H. Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since, 1865, by Robert H. Zieger Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2007, ISBN 9780813124605 Robert H. Zieger, now emeritus Professor of Histor
Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
Book Review| March 01 2007 Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I Carl R. Weinberg Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005 xiii + 246 pp., $29.50 (paper) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (1): 127–129. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-047 Cite…
Labor History Symposium
PAUL D. MORENO Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2005 ISBN: 080713094X With this book, Paul Moreno has made a significant and contentious contribution to the literature on labor and ra
Recent historical scholarship on public policy in relation to race and labor in the post-title-VII period
The scholarly literature on the recent history of public policies dealing with race and labor has focused on the origins, implementation, and aftermath of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians and historically informed scholars in other disciplines have focused particular attention on affirmative action programs, which were designed initially to implement the requirements of Title VII. Scholars such as John D. Skrentny and Hugh Da…
"Uncle Sam Wants You … to Go Shopping": A Consumer Society Responds to National Crisis, 1957-2001
In the spring of 2002, columnist William Pfaff contrasted what he saw as Americans' over-reaction to the events of September 11,2001, with their steadfast behaviour during the Cold War. Despite the Soviet challenge and the threat of thermonuclear war, he asserted, "There was never much anxiety in the United States about future events, or fear of enemy attack, during the Cold War ... ." But Pfaff s memory seemed to have failed him, for at least on…
Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882
Book Review| May 01 2004 Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882 Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882 Najia Aarim-Heriot Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003 xiv + 289 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (2): 130–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/1547671…
America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience
Recent bestsellers by Niall Ferguson and John Keegan have created tremendous popular interest in World War I. In America's Great War prominent historian Robert H. Zieger examines the causes, prosecution, and legacy of this bloody conflict from a frequently overlooked perspective, that of American involvement. This is the first book to illuminate both America's dramatic influence on the war and the war's considerable impact upon our nation. Zieger…
America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience
Chapter 1 Chronology Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 A World at War, 1914-15 Chapter 4 War, Peace, War Chapter 5 Mobilizing for War Chapter 6 Over There Chapter 7 Class, Race, Gender Chapter 8 Making the Peace Chapter 9 Postwar America Chapter 10 Questions for Americans
Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917
Book Review| January 01 2001 Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917 Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. Elizabeth Sanders. Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.1.123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert H. …
A Reply to Colin Gordon
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Books That Didn't Influence Me
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience in the modern era. Included here are essays on agricultural workers, teachers, and fire fighters, as well as pieces on air transport, paper manufacturing, and aircraft production. Other topics include workers' organizations that fall outside the traditional labor movement and the role of cotton texti…
A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Journal Article A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 333 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2423-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4733-X.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Journal Article A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910–1948. By Bryant Simon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 345 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2401-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4704-6.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Is…
The CIO, 1935-1955
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South
Journal Article Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. Ed. by Robert H. Zieger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. vi + 289 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87049-697-2.) Get access Eric Arnesen Eric Arnesen University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 695–696, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080138 Published: 01 Se…
Herbert Hoover, the Wage-earner, and the “New Economic System,” 1919–1929
Herbert Hoover's seven years as Secretary of Commerce raised that department to a level of prestige and influence it has not known since. In the prosperity of the 1920s, real wages rose rapidly, the wage-earners' standard of living began to resemble that of white-collar groups, and all that remained, it seemed, was to replace the traditional antagonism between employer and worker with a system that would give the latter a voice in plant decisions…
Workers and scholars: Recent trends in American labor historiography
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009
Book Review| December 01 2010 The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston, and Jasmien Van Daele Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2009 xvi + 272 pp., $50.00 (paper) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (4): 98–99. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-040 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twi…
Recent historical scholarship on public policy in relation to race and labor in the post-title-VII period
The scholarly literature on the recent history of public policies dealing with race and labor has focused on the origins, implementation, and aftermath of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians and historically informed scholars in other disciplines have focused particular attention on affirmative action programs, which were designed initially to implement the requirements of Title VII. Scholars such as John D. Skrentny and Hugh Da…
Unions on the silver screen: A review‐essay on F.I.S.T., Blue Collar, and Norma Rae
(1982). Unions on the silver screen: A review‐essay on F.I.S.T., Blue Collar, and Norma Rae. Labor History: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 67-78
Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Commonsense Anticommunism is a thoughtful and fair-minded examination of the stance of the American Federation of Labor (afl) regarding civil liberties in the World War I–World War II era. Jennifer Luff's careful account of the troubled relations between civil libertarians and a labor movement confronted by both governmental repression and radical challenges addresses a key aspect of labor liberalism during this turbulent period. Based on thoroug…
The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Early, Steve. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011xxv + 409 pp., $17.00 (paper) Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1726081 Cite…
The CIO, 1935-1955
John L. Lewis: Labor Leader
Journal Article John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. By Robert H. Zieger. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.) Get access John Barnard John Barnard Oakland University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1362–1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908736 Published: 01 March 1989
Labor and the State in Modern America: The Archival Trail
Journal Article Labor and the State in Modern America: The Archival Trail Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger professor of history University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 184–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889666 Published: 01 June 1988
United States
Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941
Journal Article Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941. By Robert H. Zieger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. xi + 242 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $19.95.) Get access Nina Asher Nina Asher New York Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 897–898, https://doi.or…
"Which side are you on?"— workers, unions, & critics
The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933-1935
Journal Article The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933–1935 Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger associate professor of history Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 638–657, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887349 Published: 01 December 1976
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Journal Article False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness. By Stanley Aronowitz. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. xii + 465 pp. Notes, short bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 197–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901406 Pub…
The Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in American Trade Unions
Journal Article The Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in American Trade Unions. By John Hutchinson. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970. 477 pp. Notes and comments, appendixes, and index. $12.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 949–950, https://doi.org/…
The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835-1910
Journal Article The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835–1910. By Katherine A. Harvey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. xiv + 488 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
From hostility to moderation: Railroad labor policy in the 1920s
Pinchot and Coolidge: The Politics of the 1923 Anthracite Crisis
Journal Article Pinchot and Coolidge: The Politics of the 1923 Anthracite Crisis Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger assistant professor of history Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 3, December 1965, Pages 566–581, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890848 Published: 01 December 1965
Senator George Wharton pepper and labor issues in the 1920s
(1968). Senator George Wharton pepper and labor issues in the 1920s. Labor History: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 163-183
From hostility to moderation: Railroad labor policy in the 1920s
Republicans and labor, 1919-1929: 1919--1929
At no other time in American history had labor unrest been more evident than the period immediately after World War I. Robert H. Zeiger here recounts the labor problems that faced the Republican administrations of Presidents Harding and Coolidge—massive strikes, antiracial hysteria, and the hardening of class attitudes throughout the nation— and describes the programs and policies of Republican leaders—particularly those of Herbert Hoover—to solv…
Books reviewed
The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite. By Victor R. Greene. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 1968. 260 pp. $6.95. The Troubled Farmer, Rural Adjustment to Industralism, 1850–1900. By Earl W. Hayter. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 1968, 349 pp. $8.50. Wages in Practice and Theory: McCormick and International Harvester, 1860–1960. By Robert Ozanne. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press…
A letter from Jo Labadie to John R. Commons
(1970). A letter from Jo Labadie to John R. Commons. Labor History: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 345-346
Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929
Republicans and Labor: 1919-1929
Journal Article Republicans and Labor: 1919–1929. By Robert H. Zieger. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1969. x + 303 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $8.25.) Get access Sidney Fine Sidney Fine University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900630 Published: 01 June 1970
The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835-1910
Journal Article The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835–1910. By Katherine A. Harvey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. xiv + 488 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
The Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in American Trade Unions
Journal Article The Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in American Trade Unions. By John Hutchinson. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970. 477 pp. Notes and comments, appendixes, and index. $12.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 949–950, https://doi.org/…
Workers and scholars: Recent trends in American labor historiography
The Airline Pilots: A Study in Elite Unionization
Journal Article The Airline Pilots: A Study in Elite Unionization. By George E. Hopkins. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. viii + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $8.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 472–473, ht…
The Clifton-Morenci Strike: Labor Difficulty in Arizona 1915-1916
Journal Article The Clifton-Morenci Strike: Labor Difficulty in Arizona 1915–1916. By James R. Kluger. (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1970. 94 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $3.50.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 181–182, https://d…
Books reviewed
Going to America. By Terry Coleman. New York: Pantheon Books. 1972. 317 pp. $8.75. For Peace and Justice: Pacifism in America, 1914–1941. By Charles Chatfield. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1971. 447 pp. $11.95. Teamster Rebellion. By Farrell Dobbs. New York: Monad Press. 1972. (Distributed by Pathfinder Press, Inc.) 192 pp. $6.95 cloth. $2.25 paper. Right to Challenge. People and Power in the Steelworkers Union. By John Herling. New …
Journalists and Workers: Establishing Labor History
Books reviewed
A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. By Jervis Anderson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1973. 398 pp. $12.50 American Labor Radicalism: Testimonies and Interpretations. Edited by Staughton Lynd. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1973. 217 pp. $7.95
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Journal Article False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness. By Stanley Aronowitz. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. xii + 465 pp. Notes, short bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 197–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901406 Pub…
"Which side are you on?"— workers, unions, & critics
Books reviewed
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists. By William Derman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. x, 282 pp. $15.00. The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City. By Joan Wallach Scott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv, 239 pp. $10.00 The Anzin Company, 1800–1833: Big Business in the Early Stages of the French Industrial Revolution. By Reed G. Geiger. Philadelphia, Universi…
The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933-1935
Journal Article The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933–1935 Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger associate professor of history Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 638–657, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887349 Published: 01 December 1976
The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture
Journal Article The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936–1939: A Study in Class and Culture. By Peter Friedlander. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. xxxiii + 155 pp. Illustration, chart, notes, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 456–457, http…
Herbert Hoover, the Wage-earner, and the “New Economic System,” 1919–1929
Herbert Hoover's seven years as Secretary of Commerce raised that department to a level of prestige and influence it has not known since. In the prosperity of the 1920s, real wages rose rapidly, the wage-earners' standard of living began to resemble that of white-collar groups, and all that remained, it seemed, was to replace the traditional antagonism between employer and worker with a system that would give the latter a voice in plant decisions…
Madison's Battery Workers, 1934-1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587
Journal Article Madison's Battery Workers, 1934–1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587. By Robert H. Zieger. (Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1977. xiv + 126 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Paper, $4.50.) Get access Bernard Mergen Bernard Mergen George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Books reviewed
Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790–1975. By Dolores Hayden. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. ix, 401 pp. $16.95. Urban Masses And Moral Order In America, 1820–1920. By Paul Boyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. xi, 387 pp. $18.50. Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi, 168 pp. $12.95. Harpers Ferr…
The Labor Novel Strikes Again: Two Books of the Seventies
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