Education:
Many, many years
ago
- B.A., State University of New
York at Stony Brook, 1967
- MA, Rutgers University,
1973
- Ph.D, Rutgers University,
1977
Teaching Areas:
- American Social, Labor, and
Cultural History
- Twentieth-Century United
States
- Social History of Technology
Research Areas:
- History of Automobile Workers
- History of Masculinity
- History of Technology
Classes:
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History 152: American History:
1877 to the Present. Spring 2006 and Spring 2007.
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History 272, The Blues: History
and Culture. Fall 2003.
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History 469: Manhood in America.
Fall 2006.
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Urban Sudies 360: Perspectives
on the Urban Scene: The Blues in Urban America, Spring 2004.
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History 900: Seminar in American
History: Labor in Urban America, Fall 2004.
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Urban Studies 932/History 800:
Labor, Leisure, and the American City.
Recent and Major Publications:
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"The Degradation of Work Revisited:
Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900-2000" and " "An
Economic ‘Frankenstein'": UAW Workers' Response to Automation at the Ford
Brook Park Plant in the 1950s" (a republication) on the National Endowment
for the Humanities and University of Michigan-Dearborn Automobile and
American Life and Society website (http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu)
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"Workplace Predators: Sex and
Sexuality on the US Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960," Labor, V.
1 (Spring 2004), 79-93.
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"Rugged Manhood: The Aggressive
and Confrontational Culture of US Auto Workers, 1930-1950," Journal of
Social History, V. 36 (Fall 2002), pp. 125-47.
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"‘An Economic Frankenstein':
UAW Workers' Response to Automation in the Ford Brook Park Plant in the
1950s," Michigan Historical Review, V. 28 (Spring 2002), pp. 63-89.
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"Work, Play, and Power:
Masculine Culture on the Automotive
Shop Floor, 1930-1965,"
in Roger Horowitz, editor, Boys and their Toys (Routledge, 2001),
13-32 and Men and Masculinities, Vol. 2 (October, 1999), 115-134
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Recent Papers and Work in
Progress:
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"The Degradation of Work Revisited:
Auto Work from the 1910s through 1960s," presented at The Car in History
Conference, University of Toronto, May 2005.
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"Gendered Terrain: Gendered
Terrain: Male and Female Space on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1920-1950"
presented at Tamiment Seminar on Labor and Social History, New York University,
March 2005.
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"Sex and the Motor City: The
Batchelor Culture of Detroit Auto Workers from the 1910s to the 1930s"
at the Newberry Library Labor History Seminar in December 2004.
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"B[e]aring Manliness: The
Gendered Cultures of American Automobile Workers, 1900-1970." Research
and writing of book manuscript in progress.
Awards, Honors, and
Fellowships:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship, 2000-01. Project: "Masculine Culture in the Automobile Industry."
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Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship
in Residence at Wayne State University, 1985-86. Project: "Workers and Technology
in the Automobile Industry."
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NEH Summer Seminar on Caribbean
History at the University of Wisconsin, Summer 1996
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NEH Summer Seminar on The Blues
as History, Culture, and Literature at the University of Mississippi, Summer
1992.
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NEH Summer Seminar on American
Labor History at Wayne State University, Summer 1981
Stephen Meyer, 23-dec-05
