Background
Green, James R. was born on November 4, 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of Gerald R. and Mary Kaye Green.
(The World of the Worker illuminates workers' lives at hom...)
The World of the Worker illuminates workers' lives at home, on the job, and in the voting booths. A new preface enhances this social, cultural, and political history: an unparalleled picture of working people during the turbulent rise and fall of the labor movement.
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(Deftly blending autobiography and history, James Green he...)
Deftly blending autobiography and history, James Green here reflects on thirty years as an activist, educator, and historian. He recounts how he became deeply immersed in political protest and in recovering and preserving the history of progressive social movements, and how the two are linked. His book, written in an engaging and accessible style, tells powerful stories of people in struggle, framed by the personal account of his own development. As a historian, Green gives voice to generations of Americans who banded together to fight for social justice. His subjects range from the martyrs of the Haymarket tragedy to the Bread and Roses strikers of 1912, from depression-era struggles for democracy to the civil rights crusaders, from recent Rainbow Coalition campaigns to the latest union organizing drives. As an activist, Green describes how his participation in the civil rights and labor movements of our own time has transformed his life, first as a student and radical scholar in the 1960s, then as a public historian and teacher of working-class students. He also describes his efforts to break free from academic confinement and "tell movement stories in public," in an attempt to offer hope and counsel to those still fighting for equality and fairness. He concludes with a revealing look at how awareness of past social activism has contributed to the revival of the labor movement during the last ten years, an effort in which Green has been vigorously engaged.
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(In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes informatio...)
In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes information about the party's propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers that claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and information about the attractive summer camp meetings that drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to weeklong agitation and education sessions. In this broadly based study, Green examines such popular leaders as Oklahoma's Oscar Ameringer (the 'Mark Twain of American Socialism"), "Red Tom" Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O'Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator.
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Green, James R. was born on November 4, 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of Gerald R. and Mary Kaye Green.
Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1972.
Assistant professor history Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1970—1977. From associate to full professor University Massachusetts, Boston, since 1977. Lecturer history Warwick University, Coventry, England, 1975—1976.
Senior lecturer University Genoa, Italy, 1998. Series researcher Blackside Films Inc., Boston, 1991—1992. Member community advisory board WGBH, Boston, 1993—1994.
(In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes informatio...)
(Deftly blending autobiography and history, James Green he...)
(The World of the Worker illuminates workers' lives at hom...)
Member of Labor and Working Class History Society (vice president, president-elect since 2001).
Married Janet Grogan, October 16, 1988. 1 child Nicholas.