Labor movement

This dissertation investigates alliances across gender, race, and class in the dynamics of working class solidarity. The analysis examines the geographically bounded organizational networks, community spatial organization, and political cultures in Kansas City that resulted in a…

This project is an analysis of the ways in which the power structure maintains hegemony and ideological dominance when confronted with challenges. Challenges to the power structure typically emerge in the form of social movements. Using conventional and Marxist theories, the Ame…

This dissertation is a contribution to the reframing of the history of postcolonial Lebanon, and in particular the era between independence from France and the outbreak of the civil war of 1975-90. The dissertation’s central argument is that rather than seeing postcolonial Leban…

In the 1870s America was largely a nation of farms and small towns controlled by the values of Main Street, including beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire capitalism, and progress. By 1900, however, it was more a country of big cities with a Wall Street ethos and characterize…

In the late 1960s and 1970s, thousands of young black, white, Asian, and Latino radicals from diverse class backgrounds concluded that a deep and long-lasting transformation of the nation's politics required them to concentrate their organizing efforts on worksites and within tr…