Department of History

Books

• Joseph A. McCartin and Melvyn Dubofsky. American Labor: A Documentary Collection. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
• Joseph A. McCartin. Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21.. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Edited books

• Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky, WE SHALL BE ALL: A HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Articles in journals

• Joseph A. McCartin. "L’Américanisme de Reagan: brève histoire, politiques du patriotism." Cahiers d’histoire:revue d’histoire critique No. 108 (2009): 13-40.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Building Interfaith Worker Justice: Kim Bobo’s Story’." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 6.1 (2009): 87-105.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "“The Force of Faith: An Introduction to the Labor and Religion Issue.” ." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 6.1 (2009): 1-4.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Unexpected Convergence: Values, Assumptions and the Right to Strike in Public and Private Sectors, 1945-2005." Buffalo Law Review 57.3 (2009): 727-765.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "’A Wagner Act for Public Workers’: Labor’s Deferred Dream and the Rise of Conservatism, 1970-1976." Journal of American History 95.1 (2008): 123-148.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Andy Stern Riddle." New Labor Forum 16.2 (2007): 169-173.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Other Americanism: David J. O’Brien’s Catholic Engagement with U.S. History." U.S. Catholic Historian 25.2 (2007): 79-92.
• James P. McCartin and Joseph A. McCartin. "Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 4.2 (2007): 99-110.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Re-Framing the Crisis of U.S. Labor: Rights, Democracy, and Political Economy ." Labour/Le Travail 59 (2007): 133-148.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Bringing the State’s Workers In: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced U.S. Labor Historiography." Labor History 47.1 (2006): 73-94.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "‘Fire the Hell Out of Them’: Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 2.3 (2005): 67-92.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Democratizing the Demand for Workers’ Rights: Toward a Reframing of Labor’s Argument." Dissent (2005): 61-66, 70-71. .

Articles in books

• Joseph A. McCartin. "Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Fiscal Crisis." Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Ed. Bruce Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Approaching Extinction? The Declining Use of the Strike Weapon in the United States, 1945-2000." Strikes Around the World, 1968-2005: Case Studies of Fifteen Countries. Ed. Sjaak van der Velden, Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, and Kurt Vandaele. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2007.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Utraque Unum: Finding My Way as a Catholic and a Historian." Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. Ed. Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Managing Discontent: The Life and Career of Leamon Hood, Black Public Employee Union Activist." The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation. Ed. Eric Arnesen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "La Première Guerre mondiale et la naissance des relations sociales aux États-Unis." Le XXe Siècle des Guerres. Ed. Pietro Causarano, et al. Paris: Les Editions de Atelier, 2004.