Peter J. Rachleff is Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, and a retired professor of history at

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in the St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor,

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and

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. Rachleff received his

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at Amherst College in 1973 and

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and

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in history at the

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in 1981. At Pittsburgh, he studied under foremost labor-historian David Montgomery. He is the author of internationally recognized academic monographs, and contributor to ''

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'', ''International Socialist Review'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Dollars and Sense'', among other publications. He is also a member of the

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References

External links

Page at the Macalester History DepartmentPlutocracy IV: Gangsters for Capitalism
Includes interviews with Rachleff

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