Mattie Webb
sub-Saharan Africa, Mulitinationals, Labor History, industrial-labor relations, Race, African-American History, political economy and social responsibility., 20th c. US., US foreign policy, Diplomacy
Women in Business History
I am a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs. I earned my Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023. Additionally, I am an Affiliate Scholar at Rhodes University's Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in South Africa. My research sits at the nexus of transnational labor movements, Black internationalism, and U.S. foreign policy. My book manuscript, "Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, U.S. Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity (1972-1987)," presents a new social and political history of the anti-apartheid movement, placing local South African workers at the center of global narratives of empire, U.S. corporate imperialism, and Black internationalism.
Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings