Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: Labor, Class, Gender, Economy, Culture, Globalization, Unions, US South, Global South

About Me: Beth English is Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians. She received her PhD in US History from the College of William and Mary, where she was a Glucksman Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University where prior to her post at the OAH, she was Director of the Project on Gender in the Global Community at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, taught in the Princeton Writing Program, and was a volunteer instructor with the Prison Teaching Initiative.

English’s research and teaching focus on historical and contemporary labor and working class issues, gender, workplace cultures, and the US and Global Souths. She is the author of A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry (UGA Press 2006), co-editor of Global Women’s Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy (Routledge, 2018), and author of numerous articles, chapters, and working papers. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Labour Organization.

English tweets @Beth_A_English.

Recent Publications: Global Women’s Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy, editor, with Mary E. Frederickson and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama (Routledge, IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics Series, 2018)

“Global Women’s Work: Historical Perspectives on the Textile and Garment Industries”, Journal of International Affairs (2013)

A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, (University of Georgia Press, 2006).