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Jefferson Cowie : Biography

Professor Cowie teaches labor and working-class history.  His interests focus on workers and the problem of social class in the postwar United States as well as issues in international and comparative history, especially with regard to Latin America . He is the author of Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, which received the Philip Taft Prize for the Best Book in Labor History for 2000, and co-editor of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization.

 

Professor Cowie's research includes investigations in a number of areas including politics, social history, and popular culture. 

 

Jeff's current book project focuses on workers and national civic culture in the pivotal decade of the 1970s. He received his B.A. in history from the University of California , Berkeley in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill in 1997.

 
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