James P. Dougherty, Ph.D.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF JAMES DOUGHERTYS SCHOLARLY ACTIVIES
Introduction:
Although my scholarly
pursuits are diverse and seemingly disconnected, they are holistic and
integrated into a broader investigation of how social change, particularly the
industrialization and deindustrialization processes, affected a region of the
United States. The scholarship is
characterized by case studies and different planes; local/regional and
national/international arenas.
I) A Global Context: Transformation of the Economy, the Labor Force,
and the Labor Movement
Videodocumentaries on
Robertshaw electronic workers, steel workers, and coal miners focused on
industrialization/deindustrialization from a local and regional
perspective. Several conferences and
accompanying monographs, articles, and books were spun off from the
documentaries. These complementary
activities took account of the local/regional context but also broadened the
focus to the national and global levels.
Some highlights include the global economy conference which led to a
book and field work on the maquiladora industry which provided the basis for a
slide show and monograph.
II) A Regional Context: From
Industrialization to Deindustrialization
My research focuses on
central and western Pennsylvania coal miners and steelworkers in the post Civil
War Era. This inquiry has resulted in
videos on steelworkers and coal miners with accompanying monographs and
teaching resources, several Oral History/Visual Ethnography Field Schools, and
articles, book reviews and conference presentations.
III) An Educational Context
In addition to many of the
aforementioned activities that fit into this category, I have designed
materials, both videos and print, to be used in high school and college
classrooms. The concept behind my
approach is to use print materials, for both instructors and students, in
combination with each other to achieve the maximum reinforcement effect and to
take cognizance of different learning styles and ability levels. I also played a primary role in the American
Dreams project which included a conference and book. The conference attracted numerous prominent
academics and activists who brought diverse and opposing perspectives about
education to large audiences composed of students, faculty, and the public and
attracted national press coverage. The
book, based on the conference proceedings, offered valuable interpretations of
education and society and has been used in many classrooms.
Conclusion
My focus since the early
1980s has been on the process of social change. In pursuing this topic I have drawn not only on a growing body of
scholarship, but on personal experience as a life long resident of an area
experiencing and responding to transformative developments. My orientation is reflected in both my
teaching and research as well as my outreach to the community.
An Overview Chart of
James Doughertys Scholarly Activities **
THREE PRIMARY COMPONENTS
SOCIAL CHANGE: From Industrialization to Deindustrialization
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A Global Context: A Regional
Context:
An Educational Context
The Transformation From
Industrialization
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of the Economy, the to
Deindustrializaztion |
Labor Force and the
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Labor Movement
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Work in this area: Work in this
area on: Work in this area:
. The Global Economy book . Coal
miners . American Dreams
book
. The Global Economy . Steel
Workers . Courses
Research Monograph . Working Class Culture . Conference
. Field Work on the .
Community Culture
Presentations
Maquiladora Industry
. Articles
. Organized
Conferences
. Produced Documentaries
.
Directed Photo
Exhibitions
.
Organized Oral History/
Visual
Ethnography
Field Schools
VITA
Name: James P. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Home Address: 315 Walnut Street
Indiana, PA 15701
Campus Address: Department of Sociology, 112-F, McElhaney Hall.
IUP, Indiana, PA 15705
Telephone Number: 357-2734 (w);
724-349-6592 (h)
E-mail: jdoc@grove.iup.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Undergraduate degree(s)
BA Liberal Arts, Clarion
University of PA (1976)
Concentration: Sociology
Graduate degree(s)
Masters: MA Sociology, IUP (1984)
Concentration: Political Economy &
Social Change
Doctorate: Ph.D. American
Studies, SUNY-Buffalo (1994)
Concentration: Working Class Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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IUP
Department of Sociology, 1998-present.
Assistant Professor of
Sociology
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Bloomsburg
University Department of Sociology, 1996-98.
Assistant Professor of
Sociology
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IUP
Department of Sociology & Department of History, 1990-1996.
. Assistant & Instructor
of Sociology
. Instructor of History
. Director of the IUP
Folklife Center on Coal Mining, Department of History
Honors/Distinctions:
. Recipient of an honorarium from the University of Rome
(UR) to travel abroad to
give presentations at UR and the International Oral
History Association Conference at
Lucca and Siena Italy (1993). I was one of three SUNY-Buffalo graduate students
chosen to participate in the program.
Undergraduate:
.Social and Cultural
Aspects of Health and Medicine
. Medical Sociology
(Bloomsburg University [BU])
. Sociology of Race &
Ethnicity (IUP & BU)
. Native Americans
. Sociology of the Family
. Sociology of Work
. Principles of Sociology
(IUP & BU)
. Social Change
. Social Problems
. Social Problems (IUP
Honors College)
. World Systems/World
Cultures (crossed listed with Anthropology)
. Political Sociology (cross
listed with Political Science)
. Industrial Sociology
. Cultural Anthropology
. Oral History/Visual
Ethnography (IUP History Department)
. U.S. & PA History:
1865 to the Present (IUP History Department)
Graduate: Masters Level
. Cultural Analysis
(SUNY-Buffalo, Department of American Studies)
. Sociology of Health Care (IUP)
Program and Curriculum
Development:
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Producer
of a 23 minute documentary and curriculum guide on the 1993
Bituminous Coal Strike. (2002).
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Member of the Indiana Progressive Alliance Community Organization
(2000-present)
- Member of the IUP
Sociology Department Curriculum Committee 2001-02
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Associate
Trainer on racial sensitivity for the Bloomsburg University University-Community
Task Force on Racial Equity (1997).
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Member
of the IUP Sociology Department Curriculum Committee, 1995-96
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Director
of the IUP Folklife Documentation Center on Coal Mining 1991-1994.
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Coordinator/Instructor
of the following oral history/visual ethnography summer field schools.
- IUP & the Portage
Historical Society, Portage PA 1994
- IUP & the Nanty Glo History Group, Nanty Glo PA 1993
- IUP & the Patton Historical Society/Centennial
Committee, Patton PA 1992
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Secretary
of the IUP University-Wide Outcomes Assessment Committee, 1991-92
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Committee
member of the IUP Ideas and Issues Committee, 1985-86
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Program
co-coordinator of the following IUP Conferences:
- American Dreams:
Conservatives, Liberals, and Radicals Debate the Future of
Education (1986)
- U.S. Working Class History and the Contemporary Labor Movement
(1985)
- The Global Economy (1984)
- Technology and Society:
Human Values and Public Policy Making (1983)
- The Industrial North: The Future of Jobs, Productivity and
Community (1982)
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Producer
of a 56 minute documentary and associated curriculum guide on coal miners in
Pennsylvania. The video, The
Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central
Pennsylvania, 1919-1933, (1992).
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Books:
. Holtz, Dougherty, et al,
(eds.), American Dreams: Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals Debate the Future of Education, (Granby, MA:
Bergin & Garvey Press) 1989.
. Gondolf, E., Marcus, I.,
Dougherty, J.P., (eds.) The Global Economy: Divergent
Perspectives on Economic Change (Boulder CO: Westview
Press) 1986.
Book Chapters:
. Dougherty, J.P., 1997, The
Struggle for an American Way of Life: Americanism and Oral Traditions of Pennsylvania Miners, 1919-1930, in
Brestensky, Dennis F., ed, Mining
Literature & Lore
(Connellsville, PA: Connellsville Printing Co.)
. Dougherty, J.P., 1995, The 1993
Bituminous Coal Strike: The Fight For Jobs with a
Future, in Harris, J., ed., Coal
People: Contemporary Images of Northern Appalachia
(Sykesville PA: Nupp Printing Co.).
. Dougherty, J.P.,
1989, The Curriculum: Traditional
Values vs. Gender, Race, and
Class an introduction to Part IV of Education and the American Dream
. Dougherty, J.P.,
1986, Seeking an Alternative to the
Global Economy, in The Global
Economy
Book Reviews:
. Dougherty, J.P., 1997 a
book review of The Case Against the Global Economy: And For A Turn
Toward The Local, Mander, J., & Goldsmith, E., (eds.) (San Francisco:
Sierra Club Books, 1996) in GEO:
Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter,
November/December 1997.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1992, a
book review of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of Americas Historical
Mining Districts, by Francaviglia, R.V., (Ames: University of Iowa Press,
1991), in Pittsburgh History,
Vol. 75, No. 4, Winter 1992-1993.
. Dougherty, J.P. 1986, a
book review of Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the
American Coal Industry by Curtis Seltzer (Lexington:
University of Kentucky Press, 1985),in the Western Pennsylvania Historical
Magazine, Vol. 69, #1, 1986.
Articles:
. Marcus, I, Dougherty,
J.P., Cooper, E., 1994, Judge Johnathan Langham and the Use of
the Labor Injunction in Indiana County, 1919-1931, in The
Pennsylvania Magazine of
History & Biography, Vol. CXVIII, Nos. ½, Jan./April 1994.
. Dougherty, J.P. 1993,
Oral History and the Making of a Video Documentary, in
Pennsylvania History, Vol. 60, Number 4, October 1993.
. Dougherty, J.P., Marcus,
I., 1993, Socialist Women in Black Lick and Socialville,
Indiana County (PA) Heritage, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1993.
. Marcus I., Dougherty,
J.P., Cooper, I., 1992 Confrontation
at Rossiter PA: The Coal
Strike of 1927/28, in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 59, No.
4, October 1992.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1991, McBorderland
USA, in The UE News, Vol. 53, No. 7, May
10,1991.
. Dougherty, J.P., &
Stout, M., 1988, Reindustrialization from the Bottom Up, in Social Policy, Vol. 18, No. 3, Winter 1988.
. Dougherty, J.P., &
Peduzzi, R., 1983, Its Like an
Industrial Holocaust: an Interview
with Mike Stout, Head
Grievanceman of a United Steel Workers of America Local in
Homestead, PA, in The Multinational Monitor, June 1983.
Monographs for professional
organizations:
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993, McBorderland
USA: The Maquiladora Industry and the Selling of
El Paso Texas and Ciudad Juarez Mexico, (Buffalo: Baldy
Center for Law & Social Policy, School of Law, SUNY-Buffalo, Working
Paper Series, LI90.01).
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993, A
Reference Guide to Resources on Coal Mining and Associated
Materials in the AIHP Region (Indiana PA: IUP Printing
Center) for the Americas
Industrial Heritage Project, a subsidiary of the U.S. National
Park Service.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993, The
Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and
Operators in Central, 1919-1933, A Curriculum Guide to the
Documentary, (Indiana PA:
IUP Printing Center) for the Americas Industrial Heritage
Project, a subsidiary of the U.S. National Park Service.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993, Patton
Has No Streets!: Selected Proceedings and Reports from the 1992 AIHP/IUP Oral
History and Visual Ethnography Field School, for the Americas
Industrial Heritage Project, a subsidiary of the U.S. National
Park Service.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1990, A
Cultural Survey of Indiana County PA for the Folklife Division of the
Americas Industrial Heritage Project, a subsidiary of the U.S. National Park
Service.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1989, Markets,
Profits, and Labor Management Relations: The Mon
Valley Steel Mills, 1880s-1980s, for the U.S. National
Park Service, HABS/HAER
Division, 29th September 1989.
Non-print productions appropriate to the
discipline:
Video Documentaries:
. Dougherty,
J.P., 2002, Producer of The Fight
For Jobs With A Future: The 1993
Bituminous
Coal Strike, a 25 minute
documentary that focuses on the issue of jobs and job security in the U.S. coal industry. It includes interviews with striking miners
and their family members, strike and picket line scenes and commentary from two
leading
researchers: Professor of Sociology Stanley
Aronowitz, co-author of The Jobless Future & Jermey Rifkin author of
The End of Work.
. Dougherty, J.P.
1992, Producer of The Struggle For
An American Way of Life: Coal
Miners and Operators in Central
Pennsylvania: 1919-1933. The documentary presents how coal miners, their
wives and children struggled with coal operators and their police forces over the definitions and practices of
American democracy. It includes interviews with coal miners and their wives and
daughters and commentaries from major researchers: Professor Melyvn Dubofsky
author of John L. Lewis: A Biography and Professor Gary Gerstle author
of Working Class Americanism
. Dougherty, J.P. & Peduzzi, R.,
1984. Co-producers of People and Power: The Struggle
Continues, A History of U.S. Steel
Workers, 1880-1980. The documentary
focues on the
history of steel workers in the Mon
Valley outside of Pittsburgh PA. It
covers the early
development of the industry in the
1880s, the rise of United States Steel, the plight of the
steel worker, and the rise of
institutions that have sought to enhance the steel workers
standard of living. Specific periods investigated are: 1892,
1919, the rise of unionization in
the 1930s, the post WWII era, and the
deindustrialization period of the 1970s and 1980s.
It includes interviews with
rank-and-file workers, activists, unionists, company officials and
commentary by: David Montgomery,
Professor of History Yale University; David Gordon,
Professor of
Economics The New School for Social Research; Staughton Lynd, Attorney,
author and activist; Ann Markuson,
Professor of Regional Planning, University of
California at Berkley; Barry
Bluestone, Professor of Economics, Boston College and
Bennett Harrison, Professor of
Economics MIT.
. Dougherty, J.P. & Peduzzi, R.,
1982. Coproducers of A Vote of
Thanks?: A
Videodocumentary on Plant
Closings, The Robertshaw Controls Col., Indiana PA, A Case
Study. This 99 minute two-part documentary examines
the impact of the closing of a
small electronics factory on a rural community and its work
force which was predominantly
women. The second part of the documentary provides an overview of plant
closings by
using interviews with leading experts
including, Barry Bluestone, Professor of Economics,
Boston College, Bennett Harrison,
Professor of Economics, MIT, and Staughton Lynd
among others.
Photo
Exhibitions:
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993. Executive
Producer of Nanty Glo: A Community Celebration, a
photo exhibition based upon
photographs taken by students at the 1993 IUP Oral
History/Visual
Ethnography Summer Field School. And produced by Mr. James Harris.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1992. Executive
Producer of Patton: A Celebration Through Photography,
a photo exhibition organized and
produced by Mr. James Harris.
RESEARCH AND GRANT ACTIVITY
Externally Funded Grant
Activity:
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For
the IUP Folklife Documentation Center on Coal Mining in the IUP History
Department from Americas Industrial Heritage Project, a subsidiary of the US
National Park Service
. 1994: $26,000
. 1993: $26,000
. 1992: $26,000
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Producing
a documentary on coal miners in Pennsylvania during the early 1930s. I am
currently pursuing grant money for the project.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
International:
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993.
Competing Narratives on Americanism: Coal Miners and
Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919-1933, at The Narrative:
An International
Conference, Albany, NY, April 1-4, 1993.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993.
Oral History in a Industrial Heritage Zone: The Case of the AIHP Folklife
Documentation Center on Coal Mining, at the 8th Annual
International Oral
History Conference: Memory and Multiculturalism, Siena-Lucca,
Italy, Feb. 25-28,
1993.
. Dougherty, J.P., 2000. The President
Wants You to Join the Union: Coal Miners in
Pennsylvania in the early 1930s a
video presentation at the 23rd Annual Conference of the
Appalachian Studies Association,
Regional Stewardship for the Millennium: Integrating
Cultural, Social, and Scientific
Development in Appalachia, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN, March 24-26, 2000.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1998. The Fight For
Jobs With a Future: The 1993 Bituminous Coal
Strike, a video presentation and
discussion at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture
Association, 9th Annual
Conference, West Virginia University, October 30 November 1,
1998.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1995. Chair of the
panel, Community, Countryside & Change in
Northern Appalachia, for the March
1995 Appalachian Studies Association Conference
in Morgantown WVA. Students from the 1994 IUP Oral
History/Visual Ethnography
Field School presented their work
during the session.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1995. The Struggle
For An American Way of Life, video presentation
at the March 1995 Appalachian Studies
Association Conference, Morgantown WVA.
. Dougherty, J.P. 1993. Popular Music
in a Deindustrialized Setting: The Rose Inn,
Indiana County PA., a Case Study,
presentation at the 1993 Popular Culture in the
South Conference, October 14-16, 1993,
Nashville, TN.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1988. The Club Utica: Country Music in a
Northern Urban Setting,
presented at the Society For
Ethnomusicology Niagara Chapter Annual Meeting, April
22-23, 1988.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1985. Historians and
Labor History Film Making, presentation at the
1985 Lowell Conference on Industrial
History, at the U.S. National Park at Lowell MA
Popular Perceptions of
Industrial History Conference, November 2, 1985, Lowell MA.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1994, The Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad and Pennsylvania
Coal Miners,
presentation at the Scrap Metal: Workers, Class and Culture Conference,
April 29-30, 1994, Buffalo, NY. The event was sponsored by the New York
State Council
on the Arts, the Polish Community Center of Buffalo, Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts
Center of Buffalo, and the
SUNY-Buffalo Graduate Group on Industrial Heritage Policy.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1993. The Struggle
for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and
Operators, 1919-1933, video
presentation (part I) to the SUNY-Buffalo Baldy Center for
Law and Social Policy, the
SUNY-Buffalo School of Law, September 24, 1993.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1985. Human Rights
in Latin America as Portrayed in the U.S. Media,
presented at the Indiana University of
PA Voice of the Voiceless: A Symposium on
Human Rights, April
26-28, 1985 at IUP.
. Dougherty, J.P., 1985. Workers
Responses to Economic Decline in a Rural County in
the 1930s and 1980s, at the 1985
Allegheny Valley Sociological Association Conference,
Renaissance and Rustbowl Structural
Change in a Region, March 29-30, 1985, at the
University of Pittsburgh.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Consultantships:
- Consultant to the
production of two documentaries: The Patton (PA) Centennial, 1993 by the Patton PA, Centennial Committee;
63 Men Went Down: The Story of the Sonman
Mine Explosion, 1993 by the Portage PA Historical Society.
- Historical consultant to the film The Business of America
By California Newsreel (1983).
Service to the Community:
. Co-Coordinator of the Indiana
Progressive Alliance Monthly Lunch
Forum (2001-2002).
. Fundraiser for the United Mine Worker
Unemployed Committee. (1993)
I marketed my documentary The
Struggle For An American Way of Life and donated the
proceeds to the unemployed committee. $1,000.00. was raised.
. Video presentation of The Struggle
for an American Way of Life to the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources
state conference, State College PA (1993)
. Video presentation of The Struggle
for an American Way of Life at the UMWA
District 2 Convention, Indiana
PA (1992)
. Video presentation of The Struggle
for an American Way of Life at the Windber PA
Senior Citizen Community Center,
Windber PA (1992)
THESIS AND INDEPENDENT STUDY
ADVISEMENT
Masters Thesis:
Committee Member:
. The
Teresa Statler-Keener Thesis (M.A.) Committee, IUP Department of History
The National Miners
Union: Left-Wing Confrontation With The United Mine
Workers
of America, 1923-1933 Thesis (1994).
Independent Studies:
IUP: Fall Semester 00:
. Tina Burno, Political
Sociology
Spring Semester
01:
. Wes Roberts,
Sociology of Work: Rank-and-File Workers in Northern
Appalachia and Qualitative Research
. Jeff Rowles, Native
Americans: A Qualitative Approach to the Mascot
Issue
Fall Semester 01:
. Jason
Young: Sociology of Utopian Studies
ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCES
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VISTA Volunteer, 1976-78. I was
assigned to the Clearfield County Welfare
Office
where I coordinated the following: a citizens advocacy group concerned about
the quality
of health care in county nursing homes; a furniture barn/warehouse for economically disadvantaged; and
public relations for the Clearfield County Retired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP). I also worked in a
disaster center as a social
service intake worker in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood.
FIELD WORK AND MATERIAL CULTURE DOCUMENTATION
Oral
History/Visual Ethnography Field School Coordinator
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Instructor/Coordinator of the following IUP Field Schools: Patton PA
(1992), Nanty Glo PA (1993), Portage PA (1994)
Folklife
Field Worker
- Folklife Field Worker, 1990. The U.S. National Park Service,
Americas
Industrial Heritage Project, Folklife Division, Johnstown PA.
Field
Researcher
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Field Researcher, 1990. I conducted
field research on the maquiladora
industry in Ciudad Juarez Mexico and El Paso TX, 1/90 3/90. The
investigation focused on the local power structure and the maquiladora
promoters role in facilitating the growth of the local industry.
Historian
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Historian, 1989. I worked for the U.S.
Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record Division,
6/5/89 9/30/89 as a member of the Pittsburgh/Mon Valley Steel Mill
Survey
team. My duties included developing
an inventory of the existing machinery,
technological processes, and buildings of the abandoned steel plants and
assisted in the development of a local historical preservation
project. My particular
jobs
involved writing an overview history of
labor/management relations in the Mon
Valleys steel mills from the 1880s to the 1980s.
MONOGRAPHS
.
Dougherty, J.P., 2002. The Fight For Jobs With A Future: The 1993 Bituminous
Coal Strike, Program
Guide. (Indiana, PA: IUP Printing
Center).
.
Dougherty, J.P., 1993. A Reference Guide to Resources on Coal Mining and
Associated Materials in
Southwestern Pennsylvania ( Indiana
PA: IUP Printing Center).
.
Dougherty, J.P., 1993. The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners
and Operators in Central Pennsylvania,
1919-1933, Program Guide, (Indiana PA: IUP Printing Center).
.
Dougherty, J.P., 1993. Patton Has No Streets!: Selected Proceedings and
Reports from the 1992 IUP Oral
History/Visual Ethnography Field School.
(Indiana PA: IUP Printing Center).
.
Marcus, I., & Dougherty, J.P., 1990. An Alternative Perspective on the
Global Economy: A Handbook For
Researchers, (Indiana PA: IUP
Printing Center).
.
Marcus, I., & Dougherty, J.P., et al., eds. 1986. History of the U.S.
Working Class, (Indiana PA: IUP
Printing Center).
.
Marcus, I., Dougherty, J.P., Draham, A., Moore, R., & Woodworth, D., 1985. People,
Power and Profits:
The Struggle of U.S. Steel Workers for
Economic Democracy, 1882-1985, (Indiana PA: IUP Printing
Center).
.
Dougherty, J.P., & Draham, A., 1983. Women, Work, and the Womens
Movement, Selected Proceedings
of the IUP Conferences on Industry and
Society, 1982-1983, (Indiana PA: IUP Printing Center).
.
Marcus, I., & Dougherty, J.P., 1982. Selected Proceedings from IUPs
Conference: The Industrial North:
The Future of Jobs, Productivity, and
Community, (Indiana PA: IUP Printing Center).