On March 25th Leon Fink will give a lecture at the IISH
"The German-Anglo-American Labor Entente: Origins of the ‘European Model’ in the Early Postwar Years''
Leon Fink is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Leon Fink, a specialist in American labor, immigration history, and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era, directs the Ph.D. concentration in the History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World (WRGUW) and edits the journal, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. He is the author or editor of eight books, his most recent work seeks out the roots of today's "globalized" economic order in Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to 2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), a study of maritime labor regulation, 1800-2000. He also just released an edited volume entitled Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Fulbright Senior Scholar and past NEH Fellow, Professor Fink has also taken a leading role in national history education circles, where he has stressed the necessary collaboration between the university and the public schools.