Vera Shlakman, Economic History of a Factory Town, A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts (1935)

In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 195-200

Abstract

Vera Shlakman had an extraordinary effect on my work and on that of a generation of labor historians. Quietly, unobtrusively her interpretive insights and the methodological innovations she introduced paved the way to a more eclectic and integrated discipline. A full seventy years after its publication in 1935, her Economic History of a Factory Town: A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts still provides an intellectual and conceptual guide, not only to a changing field, but to the persistent questions it raises.