Awarded the CLR James Award for Best Book from the Working Class Studies Association, 2012.  "Burns provides a balanced, fair, and well-informed analysis based on labor scholarship. . . . It is well worth the read."
Labor "An intimate, first-person account of Green's life that illuminates ideological and strategic links between expressive culture and progressive action. Folklorists, labor historians, ... Read morediscographers, and students and scholars of American culture will treasure this book."
Robert McCarl, editor of Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura "Burns has done a great service by writing Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, a fine study that does justice to its subject's fascinating intellectual development and considerable impact."
Labor Studies Journal "This sophisticated book ushers readers into Archie Green's compelling but always enigmatic presence, vividly and immediately summoning his personal, political, and intellectual pasts. Readers are welcomed into the community of purpose he spent a lifetime creating."
Robert Cantwell, author of If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture "Sean Burns's biography of this remarkable person gives the reader a clear sense of Green's varied life and career and of his many accomplishments.  Archie Green made numerous contributions to folklore studies, labor and workplace oral history, and the history of recorded vernacular music.  Scholars today would benefit from understanding those topics from this early proponent and practitioner of the "bottom-up" oral history perspective."
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