Writing Working-Class History from the Bottom Up and Beyond

LeFlouria, Talitha L.

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Research Article| December 01 2019

Writing Working-Class History from the Bottom Up and Beyond

Talitha L. LeFlouria

TALITHA LEFLOURIA is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is a scholar of African American history specializing in mass incarceration, modern slavery, and black women in America. She is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (2015).

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Labor (2019) 16 (4): 29–34.

https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790225

This essay recognizes the important role the Working Class in American History book series has played in shaping our understanding of the historical experiences of African American and women workers in the United States. It outlines the advancements historians have made in the field of working-class labor history and challenges scholars to incorporate the stories of informal, enslaved, and incarcerated workers.

working-class, labor history, slavery, convict labor, history of capitalism

2019

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