Gunther W. Peck

Journal Article International Labor and Working-Class History · March 24, 2014 Despite the prominence of both migrant workers and global commons as protagonists in recent meetings of the World Social Forum, few activists or scholars have successfully linked their historical agency or significance. In the following essay, I locate con ... Full text Cite

Big Voter Turnouts and Perceptions of Fraud

Other Duke University: Sanford School of Public Policy · June 9, 2011 Link to item Cite

Feminizing White Slavery in the United States

Chapter · May 1, 2011 Between 1890 and 1910, a dramatic shift occurred in cultural perceptions of public policies toward "white slavery" in North America, with stories about trafficked female prostitutes displacing stories about working-class victims of monopoly capitalism-a "f ... Full text Cite

Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910.

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I Am Waiting

Other Duke Chronicle · November 1, 2010 Link to item Cite

Hillary Clinton and the Southern Strategy

Other Duke Today · March 21, 2008 Link to item Cite

The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History

Journal Article Environmental History · April 2006 Recent efforts to build bridges between environmental and labor history have relied primarily on the idea of alienation, a concept that means sharply different things to each subfield and which represents an incomplete foundation for collaboration. Instead ... Cite

White Slavery and Whiteness: A Transnational View of the Sources of Working-Class Radicalism and Racism

Journal Article LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas · 2004 Cite

Review of Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laura Mercier

Other Labor History (US) · 2003 Cite

Review of Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laura Mercier

Other Labor History (US) · 2003 Cite

Contracting Coercion? Rethinking the Origins of Free Labor in the United States and Great Britian

Journal Article Buffalo Law Review · 2003 Cite

Review of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 by David Igler

Other The Journal of American History · 2002 Full text Cite

In Search of an American Working Class: Nationalist Fictions in the Making of Western Labor History

Journal Article Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts fur soziale Bewegungen · May 2001 Cite

Review of A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 by Karin A. Shapiro

Other The Jornal of Social History · October 2000 Cite

Gunther W. Peck

Selected Publications

Labor abolition and the politics of white victimhood: Rethinking the history of working-class racism

The shadow of white slavery: Race, innocence, and history in contemporary anti-human trafficking campaigns

Our Bipartisan Acceptance of Refugees

Accepting Syrian Refugees both Humanitarian and in Our National Interest

The Shadow of White Slavery: Race, Innocence, and History in Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Campaigns

Migrant labor and global commons: Transnational subjects, visions, and methods

Big Voter Turnouts and Perceptions of Fraud

Feminizing White Slavery in the United States

Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910.

I Am Waiting

Hillary Clinton and the Southern Strategy

The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History

White Slavery and Whiteness: A Transnational View of the Sources of Working-Class Radicalism and Racism

Review of Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laura Mercier

Review of Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laura Mercier

Contracting Coercion? Rethinking the Origins of Free Labor in the United States and Great Britian

Review of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 by David Igler

In Search of an American Working Class: Nationalist Fictions in the Making of Western Labor History

Review of A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 by Karin A. Shapiro

Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1885-1930

Manly Gambles: The Politics of Risk on the Comstock Lode

Review of Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small western Town sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas

Review of All that Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek by Elizabeth Jameson

Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920

Padrones and Protest: "Old" Radicals and "New" Immigrants in Bingham, Utah, 1905-1912

Padrones and Protest: "Old" Radicals and "New" Immigrants in Bingham, Utah, 1905-1912

Review of The Centralia Tragedy of 1919: Elmer Smith and the Wobblies by Tom Copeland

Padrones and Protest: "Old" Radicals and "New" Immigrants in Bingham, Utah, 1905-1912

Trafficking in Race: White Slavery and the Rise of a Transatlantic Working Class, 1660-1860 (In Progress)

The Shadow of White Slavery: Innocence, Rescue, and Empire in Contemporary Human Trafficking Campaigns (In Progress)

Reinventing Free Labor: Immigrant Padrones and Contract Laborers in North America, 1885 - 1925 (forthcoming)

Movement Culture in Durham, North Carolina (forthcoming)

"Fighting the President’s Falsehoods about Immigration," Raleigh News and Observer, 2/13/17.