My academic background in urban studies / history is a springboard into examining the complex interplay
between culture, economic relationships, communication, and organizing.
I deploy social science research tools and analysis across the range of my contemporary and historical
publications, as well as professional writing and consulting.
Key competencies:
Urban studies and development
Race & ethnicity
Media & technology
Politics
PUBLICATIONS
November 2022
Books:
2019 The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (University of Illinois Press)
Award: 2019 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies from the American Studies Association
2017 Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW with co-editors Peter Cole and Kenyon Zimmer (Pluto Press)
French edition (France):
Solidarité forever. Histoire globale du syndicat Industrial Workers of the World (Hors d'atteinte, 2021)
French edition (Canada):
Wobblies de tous les pays: une histoire globale de l’international Workers of The World (Les Éditions de la rue Dorion, 2021)
Book Chapters:
(Forthcoming) "'The Boss Has No Color Line': Race, Solidarity, and a Culture of Affinity in Los Angeles and the Borderlands, 1907–1915,” in Anarchism, Marxism, and Nationalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (Routledge Press). Reprint of Journal for the Study of Radicalism article
2019 Christina Neumayer and Struthers, David M. “Social Media as Activist Archives,” in Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical Reflections edited by Mette Mortensen, Christina Neumayer, and Thomas Poell (Routledge Press)
2017 “IWW Internationalism and Interracial Organizing in the Southwestern United States” in Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Pluto Press)
2017 “Introduction,” Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Pluto Press) with Peter Cole and Kenyon Zimmer
Journal Articles:
2021 Christina Neumayer, Luca Rossi, and David M. Struthers, “Invisible Data: A Framework for Understanding Visibility Processes in Social Media Data.” Social Media + Society, Volume 7, Issue: 1
2021 Luise Noring, Laura Prisca Ohler, and David M. Struthers, “City Government Capacity and Patterns in Urban Development Project Governance.” Urban Affairs Review, 57(5): 1343-1371
2020 “Internationalism and its Limits,” excerpt from The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Vol 11, Issue 1
2020 Luise Noring, David M. Struthers, and Adam Grydehøj, “Governing and Financing Affordable Housing at the Intersection of the Market and the State: Denmark’s Private Non-profit Housing System.” Urban Research and Practice, preprint available online
2013 "'The Boss Has No Color Line': Race, Solidarity, and a Culture of Affinity in Los Angeles and the Borderlands, 1907–1915." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 7, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 61-92
2010 Shklovski, Irina and David M. Struthers, "Of States and Borders on the Internet: The Role of Domain Name Extensions in Expressions of Nationalism Online in Kazakhstan." Policy & Internet: Vol. 2: Iss. 4, Article 5
Book Reviews:
Forthcoming “Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox” by Greg Hall, Western Historical Quarterly
Forthcoming “Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California” by Elizabeth Sine, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
2022 “The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest” by Aaron Goings, H-Net Labor Reviews, June
2021 Double review of “Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press” by Montse Feu and “Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States” by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 18 (4): 132-135
2021 “Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race” by Genevieve Carpio, Urban History, Volume 48, Issue 1, February, pp. 198-199
2019 “The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917)” by Pietro Di Paola, Journal of Social History, Volume 53, Issue 1, Fall 2019, Pages 280–282
2018 “Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family” by
Jane Little Botkin, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 15(4): 126-27
2015 “Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture” by Shelley Streeby, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (2015) 12(4): 151-153
2012 “Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965” by Errol Wayne Stevens, Journal for the Study of Radicalism Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2012 pp. 143-145
2012 “The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age,” by Rosanne Currarino, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (2012) 9(2): 157-159
Notable Professional Publications:
2020 Rhode Island Innovates 2.0
I was part of a small team of economists, economic development experts, and social scientists that wrote the US state of Rhode Island’s four-year economic development plan. This is our final report.
Commentaries, Opinion Essays & Blog Posts:
2017 “A Truly Global Union: The IWW,” co-authored with Peter Cole and Kenyon Zimmer, Pluto Press, December 4: plutobooks.com/blog/wobblies-global-union-iww/
