Frank Stricker, Ph.D.

Title: Professor Emeritus, History

Department: History

Office: SCC 120-A
Phone Extension: x3468
Email Username: fstricker

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Books

Why America Lost the War on Poverty-and How to Win It (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Information

Articles

"Staying Poor in the Clinton Boom: Welfare Reform and the Nearby Labor Force," Journal of Poverty, 7, Nos. 1/2 (2003), 23-49. Also published in Kilty and Segal, eds., Rediscovering the Other America (2003).
"Why American Poverty Rates Stopped Falling in the 70s, and Why a Better Story Was Not Told About It," Journal of Poverty, 4 (Fall, 2000), 1-21.
Review of William J. Breen, Labor Market Policies and the Great War, in Labor History, 39 (November, 1998), 489-490
"Don't Touch that CPI," Southwest Labor Studies Association Newsletter (Spring, 1997), 2-3.
“Where Did We Go Wrong?” (Wrong Turns for Labor in the 40s) Southwest Labor Studies Association Newsletter (Winter, 1994-1995), 4.
"Why History? Thinking About the Uses of the Past," The History Teacher, 25 (May, 1992), 293-312.
"An American Middle Class Meets the Consumer Age: Peixotto's Rational Professor in the 1920s," Amerikastudien/American Studies, 34 (1990), 311-331.
"Repressing the Working Class: Individualism and the Masses in Frank Capra's Films," Labor History, 31 (Fall, 1990), 454-467.
"American Professors in the Progressive Era: Incomes, Aspirations, and Professionalism," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 19 (Fall, 1988), 231-257.
"Economic Success and Academic Professionalization: Questions from Two Decades of U.S. History (1908 1929)," Social Science History, 12 (Summer, 1988), 143-170.
"Cost of Living," "Consumer Consciousness," and other entries, in John Buenker and Edward Kantowicz, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890 1920 (Greenwood, 1988).
"Poverty and Privilege: Incomes and Expectations of American Professors, 1890-1914," Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August 16, 1986, Honolulu.
Review of Horowitz, The Morality of Spending, in Labor History, 27 (Winter, 1985-1986), 113-115.
"Jobs and Inflation: The U.S. Working Class in World War I," Southwest Economy and Society, 6 (Spring, 1984), 28-46.
"Affluence for Whom: Another Look at Prosperity and the Working Classes in the 1920s," Labor History, 24 (Winter, 1983), 5-23. Reprinted with a new afterthought in Daniel Leab, et al., eds., The Labor History Reader (University of Illinois Press, 1985); tables reprinted in Paul Boller and Ronald Story, eds., A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History (Houghton Mifflin, 1988).
"Causes of the Great Depression," Economic Forum, 14 (Winter, 1983-1984), 41-58.
Review of Cloward and Piven, The New Class War, in L.A. Catalyst, 2 (Summer, 1983), 7.
Review of Chomsky, Towards a New Cold War, in La Communidad-La Opinion, December 26, 1982, 10.
“Supply-Side 1920s: Life on $17.97 a Week,” WAMH Newsletter, 17 (November, 1982), 6-7.
Review of Greenwald, Women, War, and Work, in Journal of Social History, 16 (Fall, 1982), 147-148.
"The Wages of Inflation: Workers' Earnings in the World War One Era," Mid America, 63 (April July, 1981), 93-105.
The Great Depression and the Crisis of the 1970s—What’s New?” Sixth Annual Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, May 1-3, 1980.
"Cookbooks and Law Books: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth Century America," Journal of Social History, 10 (Fall, 1976), 1 19; reprinted in Katz and Rapone, eds., Women's Experience in America (Transaction Books, 1979); and Cott and Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (Simon and Schuster, 1979).
“Hollywood Meets the Unions,” New Labor Review, 2 (Fall, 1978), 111-118.
“Slap Shot: A Farce about Foul Words and Foul Deeds,” Jump Cut, 16 (1977), 6-7.
With Judith Taylor, “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?”, Jump Cut, 10-11 (1976), 51-53.

Selected Presentations

"Staying Poor in the Clinton Boom: Welfare Reform and the Nearby Labor Force," paper delivered August 18, 2002, Chicago, at conference on "Rediscovering The Other America : A National Forum on Poverty and Inequality."
Paper presentation: "Staying Poor in the Clinton Boom: Welfare Reform and the Hidden Labor Force," Working Out West Conference, Portland , Oregon , May 3, 2001.
Chair and Commentator for panel, “Strikes in Comparative Perspective,” Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, CSU-Long Beach, May 6, 2000.
Paper presentation: "Right-Wing Ideas and the Public Debate about Poverty," Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, San Francisco, April 30-May 1, 1999.
"Fighting about the Poor: An American War of Ideas, 1978-1988," presented to Los Angeles Social History Research Seminar, April 15, 1999.
Presentation: "American Poverty and Policy in the 1970s: Politics and the Labor Market," European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 5-March 7, 1998.
Presentation: "More Work and More Poverty: The U.S. in the 1970s," Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, May 2, 1997, CSUDH.
Presentation: "The Underside of the 1950s: Poverty in War and Peace," Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, April 29, 1994, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Chair and Presenter, "Capra's Films and the Depression Working Class," Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, March, 1991, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
Chair and Commentator, “Coalition to Save General Motors-Van Nuys,” American History Association-Pacific Coast Branch, San Francisco, August 10-13, 1988.
Los Angeles and the Great Depression: Cooperatives and Upton Sinclair’s EPIC Campaign,” (1976). Slide show, written and produced with the New American Movement.

Grants Awarded

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to research the social and economic history of the American professoriate, 1890-1929. Summer, 1985.

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