Rosanne Currarino studies the economic, intellectual, and cultural history of nineteenth-century America. Her book The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (Working Class in American History Series, University of Illinois Press, 2011) examines diverse efforts to redefine the parameters of democratic participation in industrial America. Her new project, 鈥淥ranges, Inc.: Incorporating America from the Ground Up, 1870-1910鈥 looks at Southern California鈥檚 early orange growers 鈥 the men and women who eventually formed Sunkist 鈥 in order to reconsider how we understand the incorporation of America during the Gilded Age. This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is co-editor of .
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
Articles
- 鈥淥ur Gilded Age,鈥 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 19 (April 2020): 321-336
- 鈥淭ransition Questions,鈥 Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15 (July 2016): 263-277
- 鈥淭oward a History of Cultural Economy,鈥 Journal of the Civil War Era 2 (December 2012): 564-585
- 鈥溾楾he Revolution Now In Progress鈥: Social Economics and the Labor Question,鈥 Labor History 50 (February 2009): 1-17
- 鈥淭he Politics of 鈥楳ore鈥: The Labor Question and the Idea of Economic Liberty in Industrial America,鈥 Journal of American History 93 (June 2006): 17-36
- 鈥淢eat vs. Rice: Working-Class Manhood and Anti-Chinese Hysteria,鈥 Men and Masculinities 9 (April 2007): 476-490
- 鈥溾楾o Taste of Life's Sweets鈥: The Eight-Hour Movement and the Origins of Modern Liberalism,鈥 Labor's Heritage 12 (Spring/Summer 2004): 22-33
