Judith Stein, a long-time member of the ILWCH editorial board, died on May 8, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Stein was one of the leading historians of the twentieth-century United States, especially of African American politics, labor, and political economy. She was widely admired for her fierce integrity and critical spirit as well as for her historiographical contributions. Stein joined the ILWCH editorial board in 1993, when it was still heavily weighted toward Europeanists, reflecting the origin of the journal as a newsletter covering European labor history. She immediately became an influential force at the journal, writing book reviews and contributing to a series of roundtable and scholarly controversy features. She was the prime force behind the Fall 2001 journal section on “Whiteness and the Historians’ Imagination,” featuring an article of that title by Eric Arnesen and responses by leading scholars of labor and race, one of the first critical assessments of the idea of “whiteness” and to this day one of the most widely read set of articles in the history of ILWCH. At editorial board meetings, Stein pushed against faddishness and rhetorical flourish, demanding clarity and scholarship grounded in the sources. Many times a discussion of a proposed article or issue would seem to be winding down when Judy would say, “I don’t understand what this means,” pointing out a facile formulation or unsupported claim that forced her colleagues to reconsider. Throughout her career, Stein believed in the centrality of class as a way of understanding modern US history. In her first piece for ILWCH, published in 1994, a response to an article by outgoing coeditor Ira Katznelson about the future of labor history, she defended the utility of studying class and criticized then fashionable historiographic trends in her usual sharp fashion. “Although capitalist development does not produce inevitable identities, policies or results,” she wrote, “changing class relations have typically launched the most important social changes and movements in modern society.” Though acutely sensitive to issues of race in her own work—she began as an African Americanist—she took to task historians who disconnected them from material circumstances. Making “linguistic analysis ... a surrogate for historical research,” Stein said, led to constructing “iron cages out of gender and race.” Long before the current explosion of scholarship on the history of capitalism, Stein took labor historians to task for ignoring the larger context of workingclass life. “The problem of social history may not be its alleged privileging of the working-class,” she wrote in ILWCH in 2000, “but its disinterest in the

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纪念影片：朱迪思·斯坦

ILWCH编辑委员会的长期成员Judith Stein在与癌症的长期斗争后于2017年5月8日去世。斯坦因是城市学院的杰出历史教授和纽约城市大学的研究生中心，是20世纪美国（尤其是非裔美国人的政治，劳工和政治经济学）的主要历史学家之一。她以其坚强的正直和批判精神以及史学上的贡献而广受赞誉。斯坦因于1993年加入ILWCH编辑委员会，当时该委员会仍然偏重于欧洲主义者，这反映了该期刊的起源是一本涵盖欧洲劳工历史的新闻通讯。她立即​​成为该杂志的有影响力的人物，撰写书评并为一系列圆桌会议和学术争议作贡献。她是2001年秋季杂志“白人与历史学家的想像力”部分背后的主要力量，该篇文章的主题是埃里克·阿内森（Eric Arnesen）的文章，以及主要的劳工和种族学者的回应，这是对思想观念的最早批判性评估之一。 “白度”，至今是ILWCH历史上最广泛阅读的文章之一。在编辑委员会会议上，斯坦因反对时髦和夸张的言论，要求以消息来源为基础的清晰度和学术性。多数时候，当朱迪说“我不明白这意味着什么”时，讨论拟议的文章或问题的讨论似乎都结束了，他指出了一个轻描淡写的说法或不受支持的主张，迫使她的同事重新考虑。在她的整个职业生涯中，斯坦因相信阶级的中心地位是理解现代美国历史的一种方式。在她1994年出版的第一本关于ILWCH的文章中，她是对即将离任的编辑Ira Katznelson关于劳工历史的未来的一篇文章的回应，她捍卫了学习阶级的效用，并以她通常的敏锐方式批评了当时流行的史学趋势。她写道：“尽管资本主义的发展不会产生不可避免的身份，政策或结果，但改变阶级关系通常引发了现代社会中最重要的社会变革和运动。” 尽管她在自己的工作中对种族问题极为敏感，但她最初是一名非裔美国人，但她却派任务让历史学家脱离物质环境的任务。斯坦说，将“语言分析……作为历史研究的替代品”导致了“出于性别和种族的原因而建造了铁笼子”。在当前关于资本主义历史的学术研究激增之前，斯坦因让劳动史学家承担了忽视工人阶级生活大背景的任务。她在2000年在ILWCH中写道：“社会历史问题可能不是其所谓的工人阶级特权，而是它对工人阶级的不感兴趣。