Robert Forrant is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. Mary Anne Trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and civil liberties activism.

"Where are the Workers? has much to offer labor historians, public historians, and all readers who want to know more about how working people's stories are told and how those narratives can be presented more often, with more respect in museums and historic places." --North Carolina Historical Review"A much-needed contribution to larger and urgent national conversations around both organized labor and place-based public labor history. The need for (and threats to) unions, the struggle for fair wages, efforts to ensure workplace safety--the headlines of the present were the headlines of the past, too. These essays make the compelling case that museums and historic sites have, can, and must actively shape public understanding, while helping to inspire the activists and organizers of the future."--Marla Miller, coauthor of Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uncovering Labor's HistoryPart I. In Practice: Collecting and Interpreting the History for the PublicChapter 1. Public Memory and the West Virginia Mine Wars MuseumChapter 2. Interpreting Barre, Vermont's Granite Industry in All Its Rich ComplexityChapter 3. Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike at Street Level: Interpretation Over TimeChapter 4. "Like a Family" or "A Committee of Half-Starved Human Beings": Multiple Perspectives in Interpreting Southern Mill Labor HistoryChapter 5. History, Memory, and Community in the Redeveloped Loray MillChapter 6. "Cut Off from Fair Play": Representing Labor Issues in the Context of the Elaine MassacreChapter 7. Corrective Collecting and Democratizing Documentation: Preserving, Interpreting, and Promoting Regional Workers' History at the Labor Archives of WashingtonPart II: Writing the HistoryChapter 8. Labor History and the National Park Service: How the Government Does and Does Not Remember Our Working PastChapter 9. The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum and the Difficult History of Agricultural OrganizingChapter 10. Labor Sweated Here: Commemorating Workers and Their Activism in Paterson, New JerseyChapter 11. Latinx Murals of Texas: Memorials to Immigrant Experience, Working-Class History, and SolidarityChapter 12. Labor and Art: Interpreting the Maine Labor Mural ControversyContributorsIndexBack cover

Robert Forrant is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. Mary Anne Trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and civil liberties activism.

"Where are the Workers? has much to offer labor historians, public historians, and all readers who want to know more about how working people's stories are told and how those narratives can be presented more often, with more respect in museums and historic places." --North Carolina Historical Review"A much-needed contribution to larger and urgent national conversations around both organized labor and place-based public labor history. The need for (and threats to) unions, the struggle for fair wages, efforts to ensure workplace safety--the headlines of the present were the headlines of the past, too. These essays make the compelling case that museums and historic sites have, can, and must actively shape public understanding, while helping to inspire the activists and organizers of the future."--Marla Miller, coauthor of Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uncovering Labor's HistoryPart I. In Practice: Collecting and Interpreting the History for the PublicChapter 1. Public Memory and the West Virginia Mine Wars MuseumChapter 2. Interpreting Barre, Vermont's Granite Industry in All Its Rich ComplexityChapter 3. Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike at Street Level: Interpretation Over TimeChapter 4. "Like a Family" or "A Committee of Half-Starved Human Beings": Multiple Perspectives in Interpreting Southern Mill Labor HistoryChapter 5. History, Memory, and Community in the Redeveloped Loray MillChapter 6. "Cut Off from Fair Play": Representing Labor Issues in the Context of the Elaine MassacreChapter 7. Corrective Collecting and Democratizing Documentation: Preserving, Interpreting, and Promoting Regional Workers' History at the Labor Archives of WashingtonPart II: Writing the HistoryChapter 8. Labor History and the National Park Service: How the Government Does and Does Not Remember Our Working PastChapter 9. The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum and the Difficult History of Agricultural OrganizingChapter 10. Labor Sweated Here: Commemorating Workers and Their Activism in Paterson, New JerseyChapter 11. Latinx Murals of Texas: Memorials to Immigrant Experience, Working-Class History, and SolidarityChapter 12. Labor and Art: Interpreting the Maine Labor Mural ControversyContributorsIndexBack cover