Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas
by Ruth Allen

New introduction by Andrew Graybill

Published by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
Southern Methodist University, forthcoming winter 2006

Facsimile reproduction of the original  including new introduction and illustrations.

RUTH ALLEN (1889-1979), the pioneering labor historian of Texas, taught economics at the University of Texas-Austin from 1923-1959 and was the author of several influential books and numerous scholarly articles on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century labor movement in Texas.

"With this slender volume, Ruth Allen almost single-handedly created the field of Texas labor history, and she did so with a verve and passion rarely seen in scholarly writing.  It may be a cliché to say that a book was "ahead of its time," but if ever the term applies, it is in this case."
          Gregg Cantrell, Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History Texas Christian University

"I am delighted that Ruth Allen’s classic history of labor in Texas is back in print. Even though some of her research has been superseded and her views on race are dated, it was through her efforts in the 1930s and 1940s that many labor records were preserved. Scholars of Texas labor history still consult those records, along with her monographs. Ruth Allen created the field of labor history in Texas and now, with the publication of this book, a modern audience can appreciate her achievement."
            George N. Green, Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington

Andrew Graybill, editor, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches courses on the North American West, the environment, and Canada.  He spent the 2004-05 academic year as a research fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, completing his first book, Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska and University of Calgary presses.  He lives in Lincoln with his wife and daughter.

Reprinted with permission of The University of Texas.

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