Alan Singer

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Alan Singer is a historian and teacher educator at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. His most recent book is Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania (SUNY Press, 2024). He can be reached at <a href="mailto:catajs@hofstra.edu">catajs@hofstra.edu</a>
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