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Dana Frank

Dana Frank   
Dana Frank
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  danafrank@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2542 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  539 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Mondays, 3:30 - 5:30pm and by appointment

Courses Taught 
HIS-115B-01 - US Labor and the Working Class History, 1919-Present
HIS-115C-01 - Learning from the Great Depression
HIS-190S-01 - Women and Social Movements in the US
HIS-215A-01 - Topics: US Labor and Working Class History

Research Focus 
U.S. social and cultural history, labor history, gender studies, working-class history and culture, comparative ethnic studies, contemporary political economy, and modern Central America

Current Research: The AFL-CIO's Cold War in Honduras

Education History 
Ph.D., Yale University

Selected Publications 
Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments, San Francisco: City Light Books, November 2007

El Poder de las Mujeres es Poder Sindical:La Transformación de los Sindicatos Bananeros de América Latina, Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Editorial Guaymuras, 2006.

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, Boston, South End Press, 2005.

"Where Is the History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity? Part I: A Moveable Feast," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Vol. I, No. 1 (March 2004).

"Where Are the Workers in Consumer-Worker Alliances? Class Dynamics and the History of Consumer-Labor Campaigns," Politics and Society, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 2003), 363-379.

"Demons in the Parking Lot: Auto Workers and the 'Japanese Threat' in the 1980s," Amerasia Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2002), 33-50.

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, with Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley, Beacon Press, 2001.

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. Beacon Press, 1999.

"White Working-Class Women and the Race Question." International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 54 (Fall 1998), 80-102.

"Race Relations and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1915-1929." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Winter 1995), 35-44.

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

"Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929, " in Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Toward A New Labor History (Cornell Univ. Press, 1991), 273-95.

"Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests," Feminist Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 1985), 355-385.