Peter Rachleff conducts research in U.S. labor, immigration and African American history. He teaches courses in these areas, as well as theme-focused courses between the Civil War and World War II. Rachleff has tied much of his teaching and service to interdisciplinary programs, such as Urban Studies, African American Studies, Comparative North American Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. Active in the community around Macalester, from the Minnesota Historical Society to the labor movement, he is a frequent sponsor of internships and student research projects. Rachleff has been teaching at Macalester since 1982. EDUCATION: B.A., Amherst College M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Journal Articles
Immigrant Rights Are labor Rights: Postville and the Lessons of the Hormel Strike, Dollars and Sense (2008)
Review of: Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power and How to Get It Back, Labor History (2007)
Books
Starving amidst too much: & other IWW writings on the food industry (with L. S. Chumley, Jim Seymour, and Jack Sheridan) (2005)
Contributions to Books
Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison of the Hormel, A South African and American comparative reader : the best of Safundi and other selected articles (2001)
Introduction, A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903 - 1947 (2001)
Richmond: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations, Organizing Black America : An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (2001)
Presentations
"The Financial Crisis and the Global South: A Labor Perspective," Teach-in on the Financial Crisis and the Global South, University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (2008)
Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Past, Present, and Future of Minnesota's Labor Movement, annual David Noble Lecture, University of Minnesota American Studies Department and the Minnesota Historical Society (2008)