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# Peter Rachleff

Historian   United States

 **2** quotes in **14** categories

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Peter Rachleff is a historian from the United States, best known for *Moving the Mail*.

## Quick Facts About Peter Rachleff

Nationality United States

Profession Historian

Notable works Moving the Mail

## About Peter Rachleff

Peter J. Rachleff is Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, and a retired professor of history at Macalester College in the St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor, immigration and African American history. Rachleff received his B.A. in Sociology at Amherst College in 1973 and M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. At Pittsburgh, he studied under foremost labor-historian David Montgomery. He is the author of internationally recognized academic monographs, and contributor to The Nation, International Socialist Review, Dissent, Z Magazine, and Dollars and Sense, among other publications. He is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

##  Quotes by Peter Rachleff

> [I study history because I am interested in the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-rachleff/i-study-history-because-i-am-interested-in-the-future/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-rachleff/divide-and-conquer-as-long-as-some-people-have-commanded-the-work-of/)

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[Basic principles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/basic-principles/)

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