James
Green
Ph.D.,
History, Yale
University
Professor,
History and Labor Studies
Office:
W-3-154-04
Phone
number: 617-287-7354
james.green@umb.edu
Professor Green
has been teaching undergraduate courses in history and labor studies
at CPCS since he joined the faculty in 1977. He created the Labor
Studies Program in 1981 and served as the first director of the
Labor Resource Center in 1995. In recent years he has regularly
offered two courses, “Working Culture and Society in the US since
1877” and “ A People's History of Boston.”
Jim
Green is as activist and public historian as well as a scholar
and educator. He has written 17 op eds and reviews for the “Boston
Globe” as well as articles in periodicals like “The Chronicle
of Higher Education.” He has served as president of the Labor
and Working Class History Association, the professional association
in his field, and he is an associate editor of the association's
quarterly journal, “Labor: Studies of Working Class
History in the Americas.”
Professor
Green is the author of six books on labor and social movements
including his forthcoming book, “Death in the Haymarket: A Story
of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided
Gilded Age America.” For more information, go to JamesGreenWorks.Com
Recent Publications:
“Taking
History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements”
(UMass Press, 2000)
Evaluates
the following competencies:
•
Reading Life
Histories
•
Historical
Change in the U.S.
•
Critical
Readings
•
Problems
of Workers and Their Organizations
•
Assessing
Workers' Power
•
Leading and
Strengthening Workers' Organizations
•
Strategic
Analysis for Worker Organizations
Links:
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/spr_00/green.html
http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/24/green-ja.html
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f98/green.html
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/labor/green.pdf
http://www.lawcha.org
