Rosanne Currarino studies the economic, intellectual, and cultural history of nineteenth-century America. Her first book The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (Working Class in American History Series, University of Illinois Press, 2011) examines diverse efforts to redefine the parameters of democratic participation in industrial America. Her new book, Standard Orange: The Business of Incorporation in Gilded Age California (forthcoming 2027, University of Chicago Press) looks at Southern California鈥檚 early orange growers 鈥 the men and women who eventually formed Sunkist 鈥 in order to reconsider how we understand the incorporation of America during the Gilded Age. This project was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Huntington Library. From 2020 until 2024 she was co-editor then editor of . With Robert Johnston (University of Illinois-Chicago) she is co-editor of The [Oxford] Handbook of the Progressive Era.
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
Articles
- 鈥淎 Democracy of Good Dinners: E. R. A. Seligman and the Democratic Consumption of Luxury,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 25 (Apr. 2026): 205鈥10
- 鈥淗ow Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Have Engaged with Richard Bensel鈥檚 Political Economy of American Industrialization,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Reviews in American History 53 (Dec. 2025): 404鈥11
- 鈥淥ur Gilded Age,鈥 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 19 (April 2020): 321-336
- 鈥淭ransition Questions,鈥 Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15 (July 2016): 263-277
- 鈥淭owards a History of Cultural Economy,鈥 Journal of the Civil War Era 2 (December 2012): 564-585
- 鈥溾楾he Revolution Now In Progress鈥: Social Economics and the Labor Question,鈥 Labor History 50 (February 2009): 1-17
- 鈥淭he Politics of 鈥楳ore鈥: The Labor Question and the Idea of Economic Liberty in Industrial America,鈥 Journal of American History 93 (June 2006): 17-36
- 鈥淢eat vs. Rice: Working-Class Manhood and Anti-Chinese Hysteria,鈥 Men and Masculinities 9 (April 2007): 476-490
- 鈥溾楾o Taste of Life's Sweets鈥: The Eight-Hour Movement and the Origins of Modern Liberalism,鈥 Labor's Heritage 12 (Spring/Summer 2004): 22-33
