Judith Stein (1940–2017)

Abstract

Obituary| December 01 2017 Judith Stein (1940–2017) Eric Arnesen Eric Arnesen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2017) 14 (4): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4209230 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Arnesen; Judith Stein (1940–2017). Labor 1 December 2017; 14 (4): 5–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4209230 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 This past May, the field of labor history lost one of its most original and penetrating thinkers with the passing of Judith Stein, who had battled lung cancer for the past decade and a half. Judith was born in 1940 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in 1960 and her PhD from Yale in 1967. For the past fifty years, she taught countless students at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Before her retirement last year, she had become a CUNY distinguished professor in 2013.Her three monographs were field changers in their specific areas. Her first book, The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society (Louisiana State University Press, 1986) dispensed with hagiography and placed Garvey and the Universal Negro... Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association2017 You do not currently have access to this content.