Middletown Studies Research

Workers and Industry in Muncie, Indiana, 1880-2012 

Graduate Students Brendan White (History/Center for Middletown Studies) and Ike Obi (Digital Scholarship Lab) constructed a timeline of labor history in Muncie, Indiana, covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.  It documents the experiences of workers in the context of the rise and fall of labor-intensive manufacturing in this emblematic American city.  You can view the timeline here.