John D. French | Scholars@Duke

John D. French
Professor of History

I am a professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Duke University in Durham North Carolina. With a B.A. from Amherst College, I received my doctorate at Yale in 1985 under Brazilian historian Emília Viotti da Costa. Since 1979, I have been studying class, race, and politics in Brazil, Latin America, and beyond with 42 refereed articles and three books: The Brazilian Workers ABC (1992/1995 in Brazil), Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (2004; 2002 in Brazil), and a coedited volume The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). I have just completed the first of a multivolume biography of Brazilian trade unionist turned President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: The Unknown Lula: The Origins of a Brazilian President, 1945-1968 .

I have over the years served as Director of the Duke's Latin American Center and the Carolina-Duke Consortium, Treasurer of our national interdisciplinary organization LASA, and co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review for a five year term that ended in June 2017. Over the past five years, I have founder and served as co-director of the Duke Brazil Initiative, the Global Brazil Humanities Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute (2014-17), and a leader of the Bass Connections Project om "The Cost of Opportunity: Social Mobility and Higher Education in Rio's Baixada Fluminense"

https://sites.duke.edu/project_duke_baixada_project/

My past grad advisees have completed dissertations on Bolivia, Brazil (2), Chile, Jamaica & Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Venezuela, and southeastern pacific marine environmental history. My graduate teaching includes the "Modern Latin American History" colloquium, a two semester sequence on "Afro-Brazilian History and Culture," and "The Latin American Wars of Indepenedence." Over the years, I have directed numerous undergraduate theses in a variety of disciplines, eight of which won prizes. My undergraduate offerings include surveys of Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, and Modern Latin American history and Global Protest with a new offering planned on the political and military history of the Latin American Wars of Independence.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007
Professor of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

331 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
jdfrench@duke.edu (919) 684-2536

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1985
Duke Appointment History
- Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
- Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2012
- Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995 - 2007
- Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1995
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 28, 2018 Bass Connections
  
  Collaborative Research in Brazil Delves into Higher Education, Politics and Social Justice
- APR 11, 2018
  
  The Amazon: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of the Environment, Politics and Society
- MAR 13, 2017
  
  March 27 Conference to Explore Cost of Opportunity Related to Higher Education in Brazil
- DEC 6, 2016
  
  Bass Connections in Brazil
- SEP 13, 2016
  
  The Cost of Opportunity in the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil
- MAR 21, 2016 NDTV-New Delhi
  
  John French comments: Rival protests ignite debate on race, class in Brazil
- SEP 1, 2015
  
  The Global Brazil Humanities Lab
- MAR 17, 2015
  
  Conference Puts Spotlight on Brazil
- JUL 8, 2014
  
  Tiffany Lieu: Drawn by the Connections of History
- MAR 13, 2014
  
  Global Brazil Humanities Lab to Debut
- JAN 21, 2014
  
  New Duke Brazil Initiative Connects Students, Faculty to Brazil
- DEC 18, 2013 Public Radio International
  
  John French comments: Don't expect Brazil to offer Snowden asylum
Awards & Honors
- 2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Unknown. January 2009
- Fellows. Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. 2006
- Fellow. National Humanities Center. 1995
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Brazil (Country)
- Research
  - Brazil (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Visiting Faculty Share Agreement awarded by University of Richmond 2014
- Beyond the Battlefield: The Labor of Military Service in Latin America and the Caribbean awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2010 - 2011
- Assessing the First Term in Office of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (2002-2010): Ruptures or Continuity in Public awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2007 - 2008
- "Lectures by scholars doing cutting-edge research on Latin America in Spring 2001" awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program awarded by Department of Education 1999 - 2000
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - French, JD. Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency. 2007.
  - French, JD. Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. University of North Carolina Press, July 2004.
  - French, JD. Afogados em Leis: A CLT e a Cultura Politica dos Trabalhadores Brasileiros. Sao Paulo: Fundacao Perseu Abramo, 2001.
  - French, JD, and Fortes, A. Urban Labor History in Twentieth Century Brazil. Albuquerque: Latin American Institute/University of New Mexico, 1998. Open Access Copy
  - The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Edited by JD French and D James. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
  - Labor, Economic Integration, and Transnationalism: A Miscellaneous Bibliography. Edited by JD French, J Cowie, M Healey, and S Littlehale. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1996.
  - Labor and NAFTA: A Bibliography. Edited by JD French, J Cowie, and S Littlehale. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1996.
  - Latin American Labor Studies Syllabi. Edited by JD French. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1995.
  - French, JD, Cowie, J, and Littlehale, S. Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book. Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1995.
  - French, JD. O ABC dos Operários: Conflitos e Alianças de Classe em São Paulo, 1900-1950. 1995.
  - Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography (1992). Edited by JD French. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1992.
  - French, JD. The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
  - Robert Alexander: The Complete Bibliography of a Pioneering Latin Americanist. Edited by JD French. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International University, 1991.
  - Latin American Labor Studies: A Bibliography of English Publications through 1989Latin American Labor Studies: An Interim Bibliography of Non-English Publications (1989). Edited by JD French and JD French. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1989.
  - The Microfilmed Ann and Franklin Chase Collection (A40155) of the Dallas Historical Society. Edited by JD French. Dallas: Dallas Historical Society, 1988.
- Book Sections
  - French, JD. "Another World History Is Possible." In Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. May 1, 2011. Full Text
  - French, JD. "Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global." In Workers Across the Americas:The Transnational Turn in Labor History, edited by L Fink, 3-11. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, March 16, 2011. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Many Lefts, One Path? Chávez and Lula." In Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, edited by MA Cameron and E Hershberg, 41-60. Lynne Rienner, 2010.
  - French, JD. "The Professor and the Worker: Using Brazil to Better Understand Latin America's Plural Left." In Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, edited by M Moraña and BD Gustafson, 91-113. Frankfurt, Germany and Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Os Trabalhos Arquivísticos Voltado ao Mundo dos Trabalhadores: Avanços e Desafios em América Latina desde 1992." In O mundo dos trabalhadores e seus arquivos, edited by AJ Marques and IT Stampa, 83-101. Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil: Arquivo Nacional/CUT, 2009. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "North American Free Trade Agreement." In Encyclopedia of United States Labor and Working-class History, edited by E Arnesen, 1011-1016. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions." In Global Labour History, edited by J Lucassen, 289-333. Peter Lange Pub Inc, August 18, 2006. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "As Falsas Dicotomias entre Escravidao e Liberdade: Continuidades e Rupturas na Formaçao Política e Social do Brasil Moderno." In Trabalho Escravo: Brasil e Europa, Séculos XVII e XIX, edited by DC Libby and JF Furtado, 75-96. Anablume, 2006.
  - French, JD. "Proclamando Direitos, Metendo o Pau, e Lutando pelos Direitos: A Questao Social como Caso de Polícia, 1920-1964." In Direitos e Justicas no Brasil: Ensaios de Historia Social, edited by S Lara and J Mendonca, 379-416. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 2006. Open Access Copy
  - "Labour and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, 1991-1995." In Labour and Globalisation, edited by R Munck, 149-165. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2004. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Labor and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America." In Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects, edited by R Munck, 149-65. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2004.
  - French, JD. "Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999." In Arbeit, Arbeiterbewegung und neue soziale Bewegungen im globalisierten Weltsystem, edited by B Unfried, 155-178. Linz, Austria: ITH, 2004. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "’Not all of History is Recorded in the Books Supplied to School Children’: ’Pale History Books’ and the Hidden Afro-Diasporic Dialogue between the United States and Brazil, 1914-1966." In Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes, edited by DPRD Fonseca, 19-49. Rio de Janeiro: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
  - French, JD. "'Not all of History is Recorded in the Books Supplied to School Children': 'Pale History Books' and the Hidden Afro-Diasporic Dialogue between the United States and Brazil, 1914-1966." In Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes, edited by Denise Pini Rosalem de Fonseca, 19-49. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro, 2003. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words: Responding to the Catastrophe." In The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader. Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Channell, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002.
  - French, JD. "Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies." In The Labor Movement: A Failed Project of Modernity. Linz, Austria: International Conference of Labor and Social History, 2000.
  - French, JD. "Pensar América Latina. Entrevista de Daniel James e John French." In Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho, edited by A Fortes and A Negro, 181-210. Campinas: UNICAMP, 1999.
  - French, JD. "Los trabajadores industriales y el nacimiento de la República Populista en Brasil, 1945-46." In Populismo y Neopopulismo en América Latina: El Problema de la Cenicienta, edited by MM Mackinnon and MA Petrone, 59-77. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1998.
  - French, JD. "Reflections on a Recent Exchange between Duke University and El Colegio de México." In Integrating Higher Education in North America: From Wingspread to San Diego, edited by N Clement and G Sparrow, 29-29. San Diego: Institute for Regional Studies of the California, San Diego State University, 1998.
  - French, JD, and James, D. "Squaring the Circle: Women’s Factory Labor, Gender Ideology, and Necessity." In The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, 1-30. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
  - French, JD. "Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948." In The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, 176-207. 1997.
  - French, JD. "A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional: A "Cláusula Social"." In Processos de Integração Regional e a Sociedade: O Sindicalismo na Argentina, Brasil, México, e Venezuela, edited by H Zylberstajn and E al, 326-345. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1996.
  - French, JD. "Dante Pellacani, Osvaldo Pacheco, and Clodsmith Rianni entries, (Volume 4: 259. 557, 338) and on the Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores (Volume 1: 446-7)." In Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1996.
  - French, JD. "The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945." In International Labour Standards in the Globalized Economy: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives, edited by W Sengenberger and D Campbell, 19-26. Geneva: International Labor Organization, 1994.
  - French, JD. "The Populist Gamble of Getúlio Vargas in 1945: Political and Ideological Transitions in Brazil." In Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Adjustments, edited by D Rock, 141-165. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- Journal Articles
  - Wolford, W, and French, JD. "Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State." Edited by W Wolford and JD French. Latin American Perspectives 43, no. 2 (March 2016): 4-21. Full Text
  - French, JD. "The tessitura of rights: employers and employees in labor law, 1953-1964." HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 93, no. 4 (November 2013): 723-724. Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Política, Memória, e Vida Operaria na Cinebiografia Lula, Filho do Brasil." Perseu. História, Memória e Política [Revisa do Centro Sérgio Buarque de Holanda da Fundação Perseu Abramo] (2013): 259-277. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Review of A tessitura dos direitos: Patrões e empregados na justiça do trabalho, 1953 – 1964 by Larissa Correia." Hispanic American Historical Review 93 (2013): 723-4. (Review)
  - Fortes, A, and French, J. "The "Lula Era", the 2010 presidential elections and the challenges of post-neoliberalism." Tempo Social 24, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 201-228. Full Text
  - French, JD. "Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964." AMERICAS 68, no. 4 (April 2012): 599-602. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD, and Fortes, A. "When the Plumber(s) Come to Fix a Country: Doing Labor History in Brazil." INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY , no. 82 (2012): 117-126. Full Text Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Review of Oliver Dinius, Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)." The Americas 68 (2012): 599-602. (Review)
  - French, JD. ""Kill the Americans!" The US Government, Citizens, and Companies in Latin America from the Panama Canal to Plan Colombia." RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW , no. 112 (2012): 201-208. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Robert Jackson Alexander (1918-2010) Obituary." HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 91, no. 1 (February 2011): 163-164. Full Text Link to Item
  - French, JD, and Fortes, A. "Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers´ Party, and Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 Election as President." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 9 (2011): 7-28. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, and Negro, AL. "Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil." A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature 8 (2011): 377-394. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Comparative Perspectives on Politics: An Interview with Dr. Alexandre Fortes and Dr. John D. French." Journal of Global Affairs 2011 (2011): 1-5. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Assembly lines: the national-developmentalist industrialism and unionization of workers." TEMPO SOCIAL 22, no. 1 (June 2010): 277-287. Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sao Paulo, Brazil." HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 90, no. 1 (February 2010): 109-142. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Review of Brodwyn M. Fischer, The Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)." Social History Vol. 35 (2010): 84-86. (Review)
  - French, JD. "Resenha: Antonio Luigi Negro, Linhas de Montagem (Sao Paulo: 2004)." Tempo Social. Revista de Sociologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo 22 (2010): 277-87. (Review)
  - French, JD. "A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro." SOCIAL HISTORY 35, no. 1 (2010): 84-86. Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Lula, the ’New Unionism,’ and the Brazilian Workers’ Party: How Workers Came to Change the World, or at Least Brazil." Latin American Politics and Society 51 (November 2009): 157-169. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Obama e o desafio pós-neoliberal [Obama and the Neo-Liberal Challenge]." Teoria e Debate (São Paulo) (April 2009). Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Understanding the Politics of Latin America’s Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social Democracy, Populism, and Convergence on the Path to a Post-Neoliberal World." Third World Quarterly 30 (March 2009): 349-370. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and Wintersteen, K. "Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests." International Labor and Working-Class History (2009): 1-24. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and Wintersteen, K. "Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests." INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY , no. 75 (2009): 145-168. Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6 (2009): 120-22. (Review)
  - French, JD. "Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6 (2009). (Review)
  - French, JD. "Resenha de To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil." Mundos do Trabalho (2009): 282-285. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Review of the documentary “Lula’s Brazil: The Management of Hope” Directed by Gonzalo Arijón (2005)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6, no. 3 (2009): 120-122. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Resenha de O Brasil de Lula: A Gestão da Esperança, de Gonzalo Arijón." Mundos do Trabalho 1 (2009): 293-6. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospe." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6, no. 3 (2009): 120-122. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Obama e os limites da ousadia." Teoria e Debate 78 (July 2008): 44-48. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and James, D. "Polemics and an ‘Army of One’: Responding to John Womack Jr." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5 (2008): 125-129. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Women in postrevolutionary Mexico: The emergence of a new feminist political history." LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY 50, no. 2 (2008): 175-184. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Learning the Craft: The Role of Graduate Mentoring." AHA Perspectives 45 (November 2007). Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Mulheres no México Pós-Revolucionario: Rumo a uma Nova História Política Feminista." Revista da Universidade Rural- Série Ciencias Humanas e Sociais [Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro] 29 (July 2007): 222-230. (Review)
  - French, JD, and James, D. "The Travails of Doing Labor History: The Restless Wanderings of John Womack Jr." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2007): 95-116. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland: Food First Books, 2003)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2007): 141-43. (Review)
  - French, JD. "Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4, no. 1 (2007): 141-143. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Wal-Mart, Retail Supremacy, and the Relevance of Political Economy: The Intermestic Challenge of Contemporary Research (Academic, Agitational, and Constructive)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2006): 33-40. Open Access Copy
  - Fortes, A, and French, JD. "“’Another World is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers’ Party and the Prospects for Lula’s Government”." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 2 (2005): 13-31. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection." Hispanic American Historical Review 84, no. 2 (May 1, 2004): 315-326. Full Text
  - French, JD. "Research Note: The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection." Hispanic American Historical Review 84 (2004): 313-324. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - Snodgrass, MD, and French JD, . "Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (2004). (Review)
  - French, JD. "Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant." Nepantla 4 (2003): 375-389. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "10.Michael D. Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 2, no. 1 (2003): 137-139. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Defense of honor: Sexual morality, modernity, and nation in early-twentieth-century Brazil." AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 107, no. 5 (December 2002): 1614-1614. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Towards effective transnational labor solidarity between NAFTA north and NAFTA south." LABOR HISTORY 43, no. 4 (November 2002): 451-459. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "From the suites to the streets: The unexpected re-emergence of the "labor question," 1994-1999." LABOR HISTORY 43, no. 3 (August 2002): 285-304. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD, and French, JD. "Passos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael HanchardPassos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael Hanchard." Estudos Afro-Asiaticos [Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, Universidade Candido Mendes] 24 (2002): 97-140. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and Grandin, G. "Talking Back and Talking Sense since 11 September: A 2003 LASA Congress Forum on Terrorism, Militarism, and Civil Liberties." LASA Forum 33 (2002): 37-37. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Sharing the Riches of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture: Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Syllabi and Handouts." (2002).
  - French, JD. "Editor, "Robert J. Alexander Papers: Interview Collection, 1947-1994"." (2002). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "’Brasiliana’ Breathrough: Translations as Building Blocks for a New Hemispheric Intellectual Architecture." LASA Forum 33 (2002): 12-13.
  - French, JD. "A História latino-americana do trabalho hoje: Uma reflexão auto-crítica." Revista de Historia (2002): 11-28. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "One-Question Interview: Watching Lula." Dialogue 17 (2002).
  - French, JD. "Intimate ironies: Modernity and the making of middle-class lives in Brazil." HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 81, no. 1 (February 2001): 198-200. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "El Auge de Los Estudios Sobre el Trabajo en Latinoamerica." Historia Social (2001): 129-150.
  - French, JD. "A Procura de uma Visão Panorámica do Trabalho em América Latina durante a Época Populista." Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo 7 (2001): 213-26. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "'They Don't Wear Black-Tie': Intellectuals and workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1958-1981." INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY , no. 59 (2001): 60-80. Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "Beyond the Catastrophe." The Chronicle (2001): 19-19. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words." Dialogue 16 (2001): 7-11. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Labour relations and the new unionism in contemporary Brazil." INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY , no. 60 (2001): 234-237. (Review) Link to Item
  - French, JD. "The Latin American labor studies boom." INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY 45 (August 2000): 279-308. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "The Latin American labor studies boom." INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY 45 (August 2000): 279-308. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD. "The Missteps of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant, and Hanchard’s Orpheus and Power." Theory, Culture, & Society 17 (February 2000): 107-128. Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and Cluff, MLP. "As Mulheres e a Mobilizacao Operaria na epoca de Pos-Guerra em Sao Paulo, 1945-1948." Historia Social [Revista da Pos-Graduacao em Historia, IFCH-UNICAMP] (2000): 171-211. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "As Mulheres e a Mobilização Operária na época de Pós-Guerra em São Paulo, 1945-1948." Historia Social [Revista da Pós-Graduação em História, IFCH-UNICAMP] (2000): 171-211. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Preface for Frederico Lisbôa Romão’s Na Trama da História: O Movimento Operário de Sergipe 1871 a 1935." (2000). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "A Origem da Intervencao Estatal nas Relacoes Industriais Brasileiras, 1930-1934: Uma Critica." Tomo [Revista do Nucleo de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencias Sociais da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (2000): 9-27.
  - French, JD. "Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies." Development and Society 29 (2000): 137-163.
  - French, JD. "Preface for Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho." Edited by A Fortes, A Negro, and P Fontes. (1999). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss." American National Biography 3 (1999): 54-5. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Drowning in Laws but Starving (for Justice?): Brazilian Labor Law and the Workers’ Quest to Realize the Imaginary." Political Power and Social Theory 12 (1998): 177-214. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Organizing dissent: Unions, the state, and the democratic teachers' movement in Mexico." INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW 51, no. 2 (January 1998): 342-344. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD, and James, D. "Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization." (1997): 297-313. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, and James, D. "Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions." Latin American Labor News (1997): 14-14. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social." Nueva Sociedad (1997): 142-157. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (1997): 1-5.
  - French, JD. "New Works from the Duke-UNC Translation Series." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies News (1997): 3-3. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World." LASA Forum 28 (1997): 44-45. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "The labor wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, work, and labor politics in an Argentine industrial city - Brennan,JP." INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW 49, no. 3 (April 1996): 572-574. (Review) Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - FINK, L, and FRENCH, JD. "THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR QUESTION FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT." LABOUR-LE TRAVAIL , no. 37 (1996): 221-231. Link to Item
  - French, JD, and Fink, L. "The Future of the International Labor Question From the Inside Looking Out." Labour/Le Travail (1996): 1-11. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Sindicatos y NAFTA: Reflejos Nacionalistas y Imperativos Transnacionales." Latin American Labor News (1996). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional." Estudos Avançados 27 (1996): 251-268. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, Keck, M, French, JD, and Keck, M. "The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil.The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil." Contemporary Sociology 24, no. 3 (May 1995): 340-340. (Review) Full Text Open Access Copy
  - French, JD, and Cowie, J. "El Acuerdo Lateral Sobre Trabajo del Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio: Un Análisis Textual." Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #9 (1995). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, and Smith, RE. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: A Conference Report." Latin American Labor News (1995): 3-4. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, and Smith, RE. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World." (1995). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Reflejos Nacionalistas en el TLC." Memoria (Mexico D.F.) (1995): 27-31. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Expectativas de un Transnacionalismo Sindical." Memoria (Mexico, D.F.) (1995): 26-31. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "NAFTA y la Integración Silenciosa de los Pueblos y de las Economias de Norte América." Latin American Labor News (1995): 5-9. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Working women, working men: Sao Paulo and the rise of Brazil's industrial working class, 1900-1955 - Wolfe,J." BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW 69, no. 2 (1995): 238-241. (Review) Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - French, JD, and Cowie, J. "The NAFTA Labor Side Accord: A Textual Analysis." Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Working Paper #11 (1994). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Labor and Free Trade in the Americas." Global Perspective (1994). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD, and Smith, RE. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World." LASA FORUM (1993). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration." Global Perspective (1993). (Academic Article)
  - Schneider, R, and French JD, . ""Order and Progress": A Political History of Brazil." American Historical Review 97 (October 1992): 1321-1322.
  - French, JD. "Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference." International Labor and Working Class History (1992): 76-79. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "The Origin of Corporatist State Intervention in Brazilian Industrial Relations, 1930-1934: A Critique of the Literature." Luso-Brazilian Review 28 (1991): 13-26. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Practice and Ideology: A Cautionary Note on the Historian’s Craft." Hispanic American Historical Review 71 (1991): 847-855. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Commercial Footsoldiers of the Empire: Foreign Merchant Politics in Tampico, Mexico 1861-1866." The Americas 46 (1990): 291-314. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - Prado, MLC, and French JD, . "A Democracia Illustrada (O Partido Democrático de São Paulo, 1926-1934)." Hispanic American Historical Review 69 (May 1989): 360-361. (Review)
  - French, JD, and Pedersen, ML. "Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948." Latin American Research Review 24 (1989): 99-125. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Fifth Latin American Labor History Conference." International Labor and Working Class History (1989): 84-88. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946." Latin American Perspectives 16 (1989): 5-27. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "20.Mario Carelli, Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930." Luso-Brazilian Review 25, no. 2 (December 1988): 99-101. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "21.June Hahner, Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920." Luso-Brazilian Review 25, no. 1 (June 1988): 145-147. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "Fourth Latin American Labor History Conference." International Labor and Working-Class History 33 (March 1988): 87-87. Full Text
  - Araújo, BJD, and French JD, . "Operários em Luta. Metalúrgicos da Baixada Santista (1933-1983)." Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 622-624. (Review)
  - Davis, TB, Virulegio, AR, and French JD, . "The Political Plans of Mexico." Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 842-843. (Review)
  - French, JD. "Fourth Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History (1988): 87-89. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Workers and the Rise of Adhemarista Populism in São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1947." Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 1-43. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
  - French, JD. "A Asçensão do Populismo Adhemarista em São Paulo- 1946/1947." IDESP (Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Políticos de São Paulo) (1987). (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History (1987): 80-82. (Academic Article)
  - Vázquez, JZ, Meyer, L, and French JD, . "The United States and Mexico." Western Historical Quarterly XVIII (January 1987): 64-65. (Review)
  - Hahner, J, and French JD, . "Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920." Luso-Brazilian Review 25 (1986): 145-147.
  - Carelli, M, and French JD, . "Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930." Luso-Brazilian Review 25 (1985): 99-101.
  - French, JD. "Second Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History." International Labor and Working Class History (1985): 94-95. (Academic Article)
  - Grossi, YDS, and French, JD. "Mina de Morro Velho: A Extração do Homem. Uma História de Experiência OperáriaMina de Morro Velho: A Extracão do Homem. Uma História de Experìencia Operaria by Yonnede Souza Grossi." International Labor and Working-Class History , no. 23 (March 1983): 116-120. (Review) Open Access Copy
  - Blanchard, P. "The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919." International Labor and Working Class History (1982): 137-141. (Review)
  - French, JD, Mörner, M, and Viñuela, JFD. "Comparative Approaches to Latin American History." Latin American Research Review 17 (1982): 55-89. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "Riqueza, poder e mão-de-obra numa economia de subsistencia: São Paulo, 1596-1625 [Wealth, Power, and Labor in a Subsistence Economy, 1596-1625]." Revista do Arquivo Municipal (São Paulo) Ano 45 (1982): 79-107. (Academic Article)
  - French, JD. "’Reaping the Whirlwind:’ The Origins of the Allegheny County Greenback Labor Party in 1877." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 64 (1981): 97-119. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
- Other Articles
  - French, JD. "Question and Answer on comments by Brazilian President Lula at the International Labor Organization regarding labor, the G-20, and global crisis." Latin American Advisor [Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC) (August 2009): 4-4.
  - French, JD. "Guest Commentary: The John Hope I Came to Know." The Chronicle (2009).
  - French, JD. "Obama e os Limites da Ousadia [Obama and the Limits of Audacity]." Teoria e Debate (Sao Paulo Brazil) (August 2008): 44-48.
  - French, JD. "Commentary on slave labor and Brazilian pig iron imports into the United States." Latin American Advisor [Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.] (2006).
- Reports
  - French, JD. Understanding the Politics of Latin America’s Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social Democracy, Populism, and Convergence on the Path to a Post-Neoliberal World. Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, 2009. Open Access Copy
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