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The Making and Remaking of a Labor Historian: Interview with James R. Barrett
- Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
- Duke University Press
- Volume 13, Number 2, May 2016
- pp. 63-79
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On the eve of his 2014 retirement from the University of Illinois, a group of James R. Barrett’s former students gathered to interview him at his home in Champaign, Illinois. Jim’s career illuminates the trajectory of the field of labor and working-class history. The interview’s questions and Barrett’s responses document his contribution to the field and suggest new directions that may lie ahead.