Recebemos via e-mail do Grupo "Mundos do Trabalho" a notícia do falecimento do historiador americano David Montgomery aos 84 anos. Abaixo as duas mensagens que dão conta do infausto. Na ilustração, trazemos a imagem de capa de uma de suas mais importantes obras: Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.
Caros colegas,
Segue a triste notícia do falecimento de David Montgomery, um dos maiores historiadores do trabalho de todos os tempos.
Tive a oportunidade de encontrá-lo em setembro, num seminário organizado pela revista Labor. David estava fisicamente debilitado, mas intelectual e politicamente ainda vigoroso.
Além de tudo o que é dito abaixo, era um orador brilhante, um gentleman e, como todos os poucos gênios que eu tive a oportunidade de conhecer, parecia imune à arrogância típica da medíocre intelectualidade egocêntrica que infelizmente domina tantos campos e instituições.
Um abraço,
Alexandre
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Subject: The Passing of David Montgomery
Dear Colleagues,
It is with tremendous sadness that we write to tell you that our beloved
colleague and comrade, David Montgomery, passed away this morning. He was
84 years old. David, of course, founded ILWCH and he served as editor for
over a decade. He fundamentally shaped the field of US labor history and
contemporary labor history more generally. David brought incredible breadth
and capaciousness to the study of work, class, working-class culture and
struggle, and labor movements. He trained generations of graduate
students,who took the field in myriad new directions.And he consistently
stood by the workers of Yale University, who remember him as always being
with them on the picket line or wherever there struggle was.
Dear Colleagues,
It is with tremendous sadness that we write to tell you that our beloved
colleague and comrade, David Montgomery, passed away this morning. He was
84 years old. David, of course, founded ILWCH and he served as editor for
over a decade. He fundamentally shaped the field of US labor history and
contemporary labor history more generally. David brought incredible breadth
and capaciousness to the study of work, class, working-class culture and
struggle, and labor movements. He trained generations of graduate
students,who took the field in myriad new directions.And he consistently
stood by the workers of Yale University, who remember him as always being
with them on the picket line or wherever there struggle was.
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