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Gunther W. Peck

Gunther W. Peck

Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
peckgw@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
308 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

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

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

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

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

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

Journal article Western Historical Quarterly · May 1993 Winner of the Bert Fireman Award and the Bryant Spann prize. ... Cite