Dr. Ryan Patrick Murphy: "Teamsters Metropolis"
Sponsored by: The Department of History.
Co-sponsored by: The Hightower Fund; Latin American, Latinx, & Caribean Studies Program; American Studies; the Department of Spanish & Portuguese; and the Department of Sociology. Ryan Murphy will be speaking on his new book Teamsters Metropolis. His first book Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice received the 2017 David Montgomery Award for best book in Labor History from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association.In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers—especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing—locking in hourly pay that bought the patio furniture sets, the pontoon boats, and the station wagons that defined the consumer culture of the decade. Yet…
University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Ryan Patrick Murphy, Earlham College. Contact Name: Daniel LaChance. Contact Email: dlachance@emory.edu.
Monday, September 15, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Bowden Hall, Room 118.