Mattie Armstrong-Price
Assistant professor and author of Respectability on the Line (University of California Press, 2026), specializing in social and cultural history of labor on British and colonial Indian railways.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 43min
Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)
Mattie Armstrong-Price, assistant professor at Fordham University and author of Respectability on the Line, explores railway labor in Britain and colonial India. She traces managers crafting ‘respectability,’ company towns and surprising bachelor subcultures. Discussions cover racial and grade-based hierarchies, early union formation, benefit funds, strikes, and how everyday life shaped labor politics.
Mar 7, 2026 • 43min
Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)
Mattie Armstrong-Price, assistant professor and author of Respectability on the Line, studies social and cultural labor history of British and colonial Indian railways. The conversation covers how managers engineered respectability through housing and services. It examines bachelor subcultures, tolerance of nonconforming men, grade- and race-based hierarchies, early union formation, and how benefit funds shaped worker politics.
