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Alex Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor (Verso, 1996), a study of the political economy of black convict labor in the post-Civil War American South. He has also published articles, essays, and reviews on slavery, sharecropping, convict coal-mining, chain gangs, and interracial unionism. Currently he is working on a book-length project on race, radicalism, and industrial unionism in Florida during the 1940s and 1950s.
Until December 2000 he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. While there he was co-teaching a seminar on “Race, Class, Democratic and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century South Africa” with Profs. Martin Legassick and Mohammed Adhikiri. He was also conducting comparative research on race relations, radicalism, and South African trade unionism during the 1950s.
Lichtenstein is an Associate Professor of History at Rice University, where he teaches labor, southern, and South African history.
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