JOHN H LASLETT

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

D. Phil. Oxford University, 1962

Office: 6286 BUNCHE
Phone: 310-825-3215
Fax: 310-206-9630
E-mail: laslett@history.ucla.edu

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Field

United States

Research Interests

United States History: American labor and social movements; U.S., Asian, Black and Mexican immigration; comparative Euro-American history.

Selected Publications

Workingman in American Life (1968).

Labor and the Left, a Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in the American
Labor Movement, 1881-1924 (1970).

Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism
(1974), (1984), joint author.

Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the Independent Collier in Scotland and
the American Midwest, 1855-1889 (1983).

History of the ILGWU in Los Angeles, 1910-1988 (1989), joint author.

"Gender, Class, or Ethno-Cultural Struggle? The Problematic Relationship
Between Rose Pesotta and the Los Angeles ILGWU", California History
(1993).

The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
(1996), editor.

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