Eric Arnesen

Eric Arnesen (born 30 April 1958) is an American historian. He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at George Washington University. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

Life Arnesen completed his BA degree from Wesleyan University in 1980. He completed his MA in Afro-American Studies from Yale University in 1984. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1986.

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Author Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. . Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. London: Harvard University Press, 2002. . Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. . The Human Tradition in American Labor History. Wilmington: SR Books, 2004. . The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. .

Editor Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. With Julie Greene and Bruce Laurie. University of Illinois Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0252067105. Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 9780415968263.