Ph.D. Rutgers University
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Queens College
Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in History
Office phone: 212-817-8436
E-Mail: jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu

U.S. Labor History

Working Class New York (New York: The New Press, 2000.)

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 (New Edition, Temple University Press, 2001.)

Audacious Democracy:  Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Renewal of America, co-editor with Steve Fraser, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society Vol. II, Co-authored with David Bensman, Bruce Levine, Nelson Lichtenstein, David Brundage, Susan Benson and Brian Palmer, (Pantheon Books, 1992.)

Articles/Reviews/Essays:
"Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945," in Blackwell Companion to Post-1945 America, ed. by Roy Rosenzweig and Jean-Christophe Agnew (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

“Red New York,” Monthly Review, July-August 2002

"The Strike Weapon: Can it Still Work?," Dissent, Spring 1997

"Hardhats: Construction Workers, Manliness, and the 1970 Pro-War Demonstrations," Journal of Social History, June 1993. (Reprinted in The United States in the Twentieth Century Vol. II, 6th ed. by James S. Olson, Robert D. Marcus, David Burner, St. Martin's Press, 1995.)

"The Education of an Anti-Communist: Father John F. Cronin and the Balitmore Labor Movement," co-authored with Steven Rosswurm, Labor History, Summer 1992.

"Putting Conservatism Back into the 1960s," in "Teaching the Sixties:  A Symposium," Radical History Review, 44 (spring 1989)

"Catholics, Communists, and Republicans:  Irish Workers and the Organization of the Transport Workers Union," in Daniel Walkowitz and Michael Frisch, eds., Working-Class America:  Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society, University of Illinois Press, 1983 (Reprinted in American Communism, ed., by Harvey Klehr, Carlson Publicing, Inc.)

Works in Progress:
The United States Since 1945 (Penguin History of the United States, Vol. 5)

Series Editor/Edit oral Boards:

Editorial Board, International Labor and Working-Class History