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Acknowledgments In the course of writing this book, I have accumulated many debts, both large and small. And while I can never adequately repay them, I can acknowledge the kindnesses shown to me. This book started at New York University as a dissertation. My dissertation committee-Danny Walkowitz, Liz Cohen, Dave Reimers, Paul Mattingly and Edward Johanningsmeier-deserves special thanks for reading a very early and rough draft of this project. Both Danny Walkowitz and Dave Reimers read multiple drafts. Dave sent me detailed comments and made several important suggestions for how to turn the dissertation into a book. My fellow graduate students, Janet Green, Adina Back, Dan Bender, David Quigley and the late Greg Raynor kept my spirits high and my mind fueled. lowe a special thanks to Liz Cohen, who stayed with me even after she left NYU. I entered NYU with one thought in mind, to study labor history with Danny Walkowitz. This proved a great decision. In so many ways, Danny is a great teacher, an ideal advisor, and a wonderful mentor. He created an intellectual community at NYU that made it exciting to study history. More importantly, I am so glad that he has become a true friend. Thanks must go to the History Department, Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Metropolitan Studies Department at NYU for financial support. Additional financial support came from Morrisville State College, SUNY, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Institute's Lubin Fellowship in Labor Relations , the Styskal Fellowship in Labor-Management Policy Studies at CUNY, and the Seminars at Columbia University. I must thank the great folks at the Kheel Center at the New York State School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University. They provided an ideal research center for labor scholars. The greatest thanks need to go to the staff at the Wagner Labor Archives at the Tamiment Library, NYU. I always felt at home there. Much of the spirit and energy of Wagner emanated from Debra Bernhardt. Her death was a great blow ix Copyrighted Material X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS to all labor historians and she will be forever missed. Additionally, I am grateful to Marc Fasanella, who allowed me the wonderful honor to use his father's image as the cover of this book. Since 1995, I have had the great fortune of being an employed academic . No small feat in this job market. In four years of teaching at Morrisville State College, SUNY, I learned the value of good teaching . I also made great friends, who helped keep me sane amidst all the snow of upstate New York and pushed me to finish my dissertation while teaching full time. Thanks to Allen Levinsohn, Elizabeth Grant, Louisa Richards, Roxanna Pisiak, Paul Griffin, Ray and Betsy LaschQuinn , and Maurice Isserman. Their support and encouragement are appreciated. This work has been presented over the years at several conferences. I want to thank those who listened and commented on my work at the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association , Policy History Conference, Social Science History Association, the North American Labor History Conference, the Business History Conference , the Columbia University Seminar on Labor, Globalization, and Popular Struggles, and the New York State History Association. Part of Chapter 4 originally appeared in the Winter 2002 issue of New York History and I thank Daniel Goodwin for permission to use it here. I was also fortunate to present the key ideas of this project at a critical moment in the writing to the Pittsburgh Working Class History Seminar. Special thanks are owed to Marcus Rediker, Maurine Greenwald, and Dick Oestreicher for clarifying my thinking and reading through a large draft of the manuscript. Dan Bender, Liz Faue, Roseanne Currarino, Eileen Boris, Ruth Percy, Mel Dubofsky, Colin Gordon, Julie Greene, Shel Stromquist, David Offenhall, Joe McCartin, Andy Wax, and Jim Barrett not only strengthened my thinking by commenting on parts of the manuscript, but challenged me to clarify in my mind the meaning of industrial democracy. Labor lawyers Ken Kimerling and Jim Reif found a way to use my historical work on sweatshops in today's antisweatshop fight, giving me a way to connect the past with the present and helping make history relevant . I would also like to thank Mike Wallace, Josh Freeman, Suzanne Wasserman, and Marci Reaven for widening my intellectual circles once I moved back to New York City and for forcing me to think big about Gotham. Copyrighted Material [3.138.105...

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