David Montgomery (historian)

David Montgomery (born 1927) is Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.^[1] Montgomery is considered one of the foremost academics specializing in United States labor history and has written extensively on the subject. Along with David Brody and Herbert Gutman, he is credited with founding the field of "new labor history" in the U.S.^[2] Following the example of British historian E. P. Thompson, Montgomery encouraged a generation of labor historians to examine working-class culture, rather than simply their organizations. He was also President of the Organization of American Historians from 1999 to 2000.^[3]

Major works

• Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872. Illini Books ed. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1981. ISBN 0-252-00869-3
• Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 0-252-02952-6
• Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-42057-1
• The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1987. ISBN 0-521-22579-5
• Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-521-22580-9

References

1. ^ Somini Sengupta (2000-02-09). "Groups Reconsider Bookings at Hotels Accused of Racial Bias". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/09/us/groups-reconsider-bookings-at-hotels-accused-of-racial-bias.html. Retrieved 2010-06-10. 
2. ^ Eric Arnesen (2007). Encyclopedia of United States labor and working-class history. Routledge. p. 597. http://books.google.com/books?id=zEWsZ81Bd3YC&pg=PA597&dq=%22new+labor+history%22+%22david+montgomery%22&cd=8#v=onepage&q=%22new%20labor%20history%22%20%22david%20montgomery%22&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-10. 
3. ^ "Past Officers: Organization of American Historians". http://www.oah.org/about/pastofcrs.html. Retrieved 2010-06-10. 

External links

• Dr. Montgomery's page at Yale University
• Article by Dr. Montgomery on Academic Freedom

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