Rate My Professor Annelise Orleck

Orleck has authored and edited key works on working-class activism, poverty, labor movements, and women's politics. These include Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (co-edited with Alexis Jetter and Diana Taylor, UPNE, 1997), The Soviet Jewish Americans (Greenwood Press, 1999), Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Beacon Press, 2005), The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980 (co-edited with Lisa Gayle Hazirjian, University of Georgia Press, 2011), Rethinking American Women's Activism (Routledge, 2014), and We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (Beacon Press, 2018). Her articles feature in Nancy Foner’s One Out of Three (Columbia University Press, 2013), Contexts (Winter 2012), and New Labor Forum (2011). Ongoing projects include "Low Wages: I'm Not Lovin' It: The Rise of a New Global Labor Movement" and "Reflections Through A Glass Closet: The Lesbian Presence in American Progressivism." Orleck received Dartmouth’s Dean of Faculty Award in 2007 and has served as Co-Chair of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.