"Hurrah for the Time Man!"

I didn't know David Montgomery, but I feel connected to him. A leading scholar of American labor history in the 1970s and 1980s, Montgomery shaped the whole field of which I'm a junior member. He wrote classics on workers' control of production and the sources of class consciousness at the turn of the century. He mentored dozens of graduate students, many now prominent historians. He was a Marxist, an internationalist, and ally of the workers' movement all his life - someone who only went to graduate school after FBI hounded him from factory to factory through the 1950s, stamping out the pockets of solidarity he left behind.