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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Challenges of Engaged Scholarship and Teaching / Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley
1. Labor Historians and Traditions of Engaged Scholarship: Progressives, Insurgents, and the Making of a New Labor History / Shelton Stromquist
Part I. Encountering Conflict, Power, and Hope: On the Front Line
Introduction / John Williams-Searle
2. Beyond Yeshiva: The Struggle for Faculty Power at the University of Dubuque / Ralph Scharnau
3. “Feets Don’t Fail Me Now”: Navigating an Unpaved, Rocky Road to, through, and from the Last Slave Plantation / Daniel E. Atkinson
4. Wandering through the Wisconsin Uprising / Stephen Meyer
5. Immigrants in a Disaster Zone: Teaching, Learning, and Advocating Alabama’s New Civil Rights Movement / Michael Innis-Jiménez
6. Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool / Sam Davies
Part II. Connecting Classrooms and Communities: Education, Outreach, and Engagement
Introduction / Matthew M. Mettler
7. The Great Unspoken: Teaching and Learning Working-Class History from the Seminar Room to the Union Hall / James R. Barrett
8. Teaching Labor History on the Middle Ground: Connecting the Campus, the Union Hall, and the Community / Peter Rachleff
9. The Difference a Union Makes: Graduate Employee Activists’ Engaged Scholarship and Their Working Lives / Susan Roth Breitzer
10. Making History Every Day: The Iowa Labor History Oral Project and Popular Education / Jennifer Sherer
11. The Polk School: Intersections of Women’s Labor Leadership Education and the Public Sphere / Emily E. LB. Twarog
Part III. Bridging Scholarship and Activism:
Introduction / Kristen Anderson
12. Launching the Kalmanovitz Initiative: A Labor Historian’s Labor History / Joseph A. McCartin
13. My Life as a Wonk / Colin Gordon
14. “The Soul Puts Together Its Pieces”: Lessons from the Casino Floor / Susan Chandler
15. Disability and Labor Activism: The Pains and Joys of Coalitions / Kim E. Nielsen
16. Engaged Scholarship and the Living-Wage Movement / Stephanie Luce
Epilogue. Carry It On!: Creative Research and Social Action / David Montgomery
Contributors
Index