Shelton Stromquist

Shelton Stromquist works primarily in the fields of U.S. labor and social history. His first book, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America, examined railroad strikes and working-class community in the “era of Great Upheaval.” He is also interested in the transformation of working-class political culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a University of Iowa Global Scholar, Professor Stromquist has researched the municipal setting of labor and socialist politics in England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Austria. Other interests include the meaning and historical significance of class in American life; the regional processes of class formation (with particular attention to the Midwest); and global patterns of labor mobilization, recruitment and conflict. His interest in Midwest labor reform is reflected in his book Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century. Professor Stromquist received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. To visit Professor Stromquist's home page, click here.