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
Not Your Parents’ Minnesota: Immigration Politics in a Supposed Liberal Bastion (with Doug Rossinow), Dissent (2010)
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)
Book Reviews
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series 3: Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 (edited by Steven Hahn et al), Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (2010)
There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality (by Philip F. Rubio), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics (2010)
Presentations
Minnesota’s Iron Range and the Struggle for Democracy, Minnesota Humanities Commission, “Lunch and Learn” Program (2010)
Looking at the Workplace Through a Labor Historian’s Lens; Power, Technology, and the (Re)Organization of Work, Midwest Center For Occupational Health and Safety (2010)
Neoliberalism, Post-Fordism, the Workplace, and the Crisis of Safety and Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety Graduate Research Seminar (2010)
Pulling the Strings of Race: The Buffalo Historical Marionettes of the Federal Theater Project, Michigan State University, Labor Studies Program and African & African American Studies Department (2010)