Chad Pearson

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Pearson, C. (2022). Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
• Pearson, C. (2015). Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Book Chapter

• Pearson, C., Hulden, V. (2021). “The Wild West of Employer Anti-Unionism: The Glorification of Vigilantism and Individualism in the Early Twentieth-Century United States”. Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930. Abingdon, Routledge.
• Pearson, C. (2021). “On Polemics and Provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. Liberal Anti-Marxists”. Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History. Edmonton, Athabasca University Press.
• Pearson, C. (2020). "The Law or Popular Justice": Owen Wister and the Legitimization of Employer-Class Violence. Private Security and the Modern State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
• Pearson, C. (2020). The ‘New Solution’: Anti-Labour Kidnapping, D. B. McKay, and the Legacy of the Second Seminole War. The Violence of Work: New Essays in Canadian and U.S. Labour History. Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Book Review

• Pearson, C. (2023). It's the Union Leaders, Stupid: Organized Labor's Failures in the South, Review of Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Race, Class, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviews in American History. 51 (2) 152-159. Baltimore, Maryland, Journal. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51186
• Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Lorenzo Costaguta, Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. International Review of Social History. 68 (3) 535-538. Neatherlands, Journal. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/latest-issue
• Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Matthew Stanley, Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Journal of Labor and Society. 26 (3) 427–430. New York, New York, Journal. https://brill.com/view/journals/jlso/26/3/jlso.26.issue-3.xml
• Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Toni Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the America. 20 (3) 109-111. Durham, NC, Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article-abstract/20/3/109/381802/The-Long-Deep-Grudge-A-Story-of-Big-Capital?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Pearson, C. (2021). Review of Christian Wright, Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West.. American Historical Review. 126 (3) 1286–1287. Washington, DC, American Historical Review. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/126/3
• Pearson, C. (2020). Review of Travis Sutton Byrd, Tangled: Organizing the Southern Textile Industry, 1930-1934. Journal of American History. no. 107 (3) 775-776. Bloomington, IN, oah.org

Co-edited Book

• Pearson, C. (2017). Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press.

Critical Review

• Pearson, C. (2022). The Enduring Significance of Black and Multiracial Working-Class History. Labour / Le Travail. 90 (Fall 2022) Athabasca, Canada, Athabasca University Press. https://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt

Journal Article

• Pearson, C.E. (2023). The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. West Goodwin’s Law and Order League, and the Blacklisting of Martin Irons. International Review of Social History. A small part is in my book. 68 (S31) 213-235. n/a, Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/abs/1886-southwest-railroad-strike-j-west-goodwins-law-and-order-league-and-the-blacklisting-of-martin-irons/60AC3592988F5FF562BA9EAF358EE5F3