Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
Professor
221F Woodburn Hall
293-2421 Ext. 5239
Elizabeth.Fones-Wolf@mail.wvu.edu
Degree Granted: PHD University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990
Teaching Fields: Twentieth Century U.S., American Economic History
Research: Twentieth Century U.S. business, social, and labor history
Selected Publications:
Books:
Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Media, University of Illinois Press, 2006
Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960, University of Illinois Press, 1994
Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, vols. 1-3, University of Illionois Press, 1986-1989
Articles:
“Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC’s Relationship with Organized Labor and Business,” (coauthor) in Michele Hilmes, ed., NBC: America’s Network, University of California Press, forthcoming.
“Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia,” Business History Review 77 (Spring 2003): 61-91
"Promoting a Labour Perspective in American Mass Media: Unions and Radio in the CIO Era, 1936-1956," Media, Culture, and Society, 2000
"Business Propaganda in the Schools: Labor's Struggle against the Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System, 1949-1954," History of Education Quarterly, 2000
