Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies ed. by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John McKerley

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Book Review| May 01 2018 Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies ed. by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John McKerley Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies, Deslippe, Dennis; Fure-Slocum, Eric; McKerley, John, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016, x + 287 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper); $25.20 (e-book) David Zonderman David Zonderman North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2018) 15 (2): 117–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4353740 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Zonderman; Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies ed. by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John McKerley. Labor 1 May 2018; 15 (2): 117–119. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4353740 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search Civic Labors is a collection of essays that were originally presented at a conference in 2011 to honor Shelton Stromquist, past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Former students and colleagues from across the nation and beyond recognized Stromquist’s decades of research, teaching, and activism by reflecting on the complex interactions between scholars studying the working class and engaging in struggles that lie at the heart of workers’ lives and labor. In chapters both deeply personal and incisively analytical, the authors explore the opportunities, limitations, and risks of scholarly activism in the academy, the labor movement, and working-class communities.Stromquist’s own contribution to the collection examines the roots of engaged labor studies, if not outright scholarly activism, in the work of John R. Commons and his students at the University of Wisconsin in the early twentieth century. Pioneers of... Copyright © 2018 Labor and Working-Class History Association2018 You do not currently have access to this content.