Frank Stricker, Ph.D.

Title: Professor Emeritus, History

Department: History

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

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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.

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