Directory

292 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14851-3901
(607) 255-3055
e-mail address: iad1@cornell.edu

Education:
A.B.      University of California, Berkeley (Women's Studies), 1978
M.A.      University of Pittsburgh (History), 1979
M.Phil.   Yale University (History), 1981
Ph.D.     Yale University (History), 1985

11/1992 to Present  

Associate Professor, Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Past -

7/1994 to 6/1995   

Acting Director, Women's Studies Program, Cornell University              

7/1992 to 6/1993    

Associate Director, Women's Studies Program, Cornell University

9/1986 to 11/1992          

Assistant Professor, Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

8/1985 to 8/1986         

Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland-College Park

9-12/1983     

Acting Instructor, History Department, Yale University

8/1982 to 12/1983           

Assistant Editor, International Labor and Working Class History

1-6/1982        

Visiting Instructor, American Studies Program, Wesleyan University

9/1980 to 12/1981         

Teaching Assistant, History Department, Yale University

9/1978 to 5/1980       

Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Pittsburgh

Current Research:

"United Apart:  Sex, Gender, and the Rise of Craft Unionism, 1887-1903"  (Under contract with Cornell University Press).

This project explores the relations between the sexes in unions between 1887 and 1903 through the use of case studies of strikes involving both women and men. 

Publications:

"Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes, 1887 - 1903," International Review of Social History 44 (1999), Supplement, pp. 33-52.

"'To Sit Among Men':  Skill, Gender, and Craft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor," in Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience, edited by Eric Arnesen, Julia Greene, and Bruce Laurie (University of Illinois Press, 1998).

Sons and Daughters of Labor:  Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh (Cornell University Press, 1990).

"'Give the Boys a Trade':  Gender and Job Choice in the 1890s," in Work Engendered:  Toward a New History of American Labor, Ava Baron, ed.  (Cornell University Press, 1991).

Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 3:  Unrest and Depression, 1891-1894 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989).

Consulting Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 2:  The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-1890 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987).

Contributing Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 4:  A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-1898 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991).

Review of Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You

Experiences of Women Working Construction, in The Journal of American History (June 1999). 

Review of David Brody, In Labor's Cause:  Main Themes on the History of the American Worker, in American Historical Review (October 1995).

"The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work?" Review essay in Radical History Review 58 (Winter 1994). 

Review of Alice Kessler-Harris, A Woman's Wage:  Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (October 1992).

Review of Lisa M. Fine, The Souls of the Skyscraper:  Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930, in Labour/Le Travail 

Review of Marjorie Murphy, Blackboard Unions:  The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980, in American Historical Review 97 (February 1992).

"Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: 'Crossing Boundaries’:  Panels and Presentations on the United States," in International Labor and Working-Class History 39 (Spring 1991).

Review of Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Women Adrift:  Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930, in The Historian LII (Nov. 1989).

With Sarah M. Henry "Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association," in International Labor and Working-Class History 36 (Fall 1989).

Review of Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop:  How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past, in Labor History 30 (1989).

Review of "You May Call Her Madam Secretary," Labor Studies Journal Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 1988).

Review of Hartmut Kaelble, Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries:  Europe and America in Comparative Perspective, in International Labor and Working-Class History 33 (Spring 1988).

Review of Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review 41 (1988).

Review of Margery Davies, Women's Place Is at the Typewriter and Elyce J. Rotella, From Home to Office, in International Labor and Working Class History 25 (Spring 1984).

A Handbook for Teaching Assistants at the University of Pittsburgh, co-authored with G. Cannell (University of Pittsburgh Office of Faculty Development, 1980).

Annotated bibliography of books, films, and other resources for teachers, K-12.  Allegheny County Intermediate Unit - Project TIES (Tracing Individual Ethnic Sources), 1979.

Papers, Addresses and Conferences:

"Striking West, Remembering East: Women and Textile Strikes West of the Mississippi, 1892-1902," Public lecture at The New York Public Library, May 1, 2001.

"Women, Work, and Unions Before the Uprising of 1909," Women's Studies Program, SUNY-Binghamton, March 12, 1998.

"Reliving the Present: Issues in the History of Women and Work," Keynote address, SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines, "Women and Work: Past and Present," SUNY Morrisville, March 7, 1997.

Panel Chair, "In Pursuit of Masculinity: Gender, Work, and Business Culture in Early Twentieth-Century America," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 4, 1997.

"Her Place:  American Cross-Gender Strikes, 1887-1903," Women's Studies Program Colloquium Series, Cornell University, November 1994.

Roundtable panelist:  "Great (Unwritten) Books in Labor History," Social Science History Association, Atlanta, GA, October 1994.

"Cross-Gender Strikes in the Early A.F.L.," Sociology Department Seminar, Rutgers University, April 1994.

"Common Rights:  Women and Labor Protest in the Rural Periphery of the Late Nineteenth Century," Ninth Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 1993.

"Gender in Early AFL Craft Unions, 1887 - 1894," Conference: "Under the Workman's Cap":  David Montgomery's Work and Teaching, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, June 1993.

Panel comment, "Women's Work and Gender Identity," Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, April 1993.

"Stalking through the workman's door:  Home and Union in the Late Nineteenth Century," Reworking American Labor History:  Race, Gender, and Class, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1992.

"Gender in Early AFL Craft Unions, 1887 - 1894," Social Science History Association, New Orleans, November 1991.

Panel Comment, "Gender and Labor Segmentation in American Office Work, 1910-1970," North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 1991.

Panel introduction and comment, "Forging New Careers," Conference on "More Than Glorified Housekeeping:  Rethinking Women & Home Economics in the Twentieth Century," Ithaca, NY, October 1991.

"Sons and Daughters of Labor:  Class, Gender, and Labor Historiography," SUNY-Binghamton History Department colloquium, Dec. 13, 1990.  

"`Give the Boys a Trade':  Gender and Job Choice in 1890s," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1988.

Panel chair, "New Work, New Workers," Conference on Historical Perspectives on American Labor:  An Interdisciplinary Approach, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY, April 1988.

Panel Comment, "Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth-Century Female Work Force," Seventh Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Wellesley, MA, June 1987.

"Class and Clerical Work in Pittsburgh in the 1890s," National Museum of American History, Tuesday Colloquium Series, Washington, D.C., July 8, 1986.

"U.S. Clerical Workers and the Reshaping of the Working Class:  Late 19th Century and Today," Columbia Univ., History of the Working Class Seminar, New York, May 1985.

"Work and Honor:  The Daughters of Pittsburgh's Skilled Workers," American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1983.

Awards and Fellowships:

2000-01    Fellow, Center for Scholars and Writers The New York Public Library

1993-94    Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University

1986       Dissertation awarded the George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University

1984-85    Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation

1983-84    Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize Fellowship, Yale University

1982-83    Lena Lake Forrest Fellowship, Business and Professional Women's Foundation

1980-84   Yale University Fellowship

Administrative Assignments:

ILR School Dean's "Academic Affairs Team," 1997-2000

Cornell University Academic Advising Committee, 1999-2000

Cornell University Faculty Library Board, December 1995-1998

ILR Dean Search Committee, December 1995-May 1996

FCR Committee on Academic Programs and Policies, August 1995-May 1998

ILR Strategic Planning Committee, Co-Chair, 1993-1995, Chair, Instruction Subcommittee

ILR Research, Publications, and Library Committee, 1990-1993, 1997-2000, Chair, 1991/92, 1999/2000

ILR Undergraduate Program Committee, 1994-1997

ILR Academic Standards and Awards Committee, 1987-1990, Chair, 1989/90

Chair, ILR Academic Integrity Hearing Board, 1988/89

ILR Faculty Committee to Respond to the Outside Review, 1987-1988