Blogger Profile: Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is an associate professor of history at the ILR School at Cornell University, where he teaches and researches topics in labor and working class history. His latest book, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class was released this fall. He is also the author of Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, and is at work on a new book with Nick Salvatore called The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Deal from FDR to Obama. More at: www.jeffersoncowie.com
Jefferson Cowie
Professor & Author of 'Stayin' Alive'
May 31st, 2011
Writing History in an Age of Inequality
Jefferson Cowie is associate professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class" (The New Press, 2010), which was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and has been awarded the Organization of American Historians' ...
Jefferson Cowie
Professor & Author of 'Stayin' Alive'
November 22nd, 2010
Reason Frum the Right?
One of the things I miss the most in the current conservative movement is conservative thought. Right wing intellectuals used to be the ones who scowled at the histrionics of the left, who warned against passions overruling reason, who counseled fact over polemic. Obviously that's no longer the case--by a ...