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Academic Year 2001/2002
American Labor History
HIST 243 FA
This course will investigate the history of labor in the United States beginning in the early 19th century and continuing to recent times. The topics discussed will include slave labor; the industrial revolution in New
England; the Knights of Labor; the
origins and evolution of the AFL; immigration and migration; 20th century management policies; the rise of the CIO; the influence of syndicalists, socialists, and communists; organized labor and the Democratic Party;
transformations in government
policies; and working-class standards of living.
MAJOR READINGS
(tentative list)
Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley, ed., WORKING FOR DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WORKERS FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT
Thomas Dublin, WOMEN AND WORK: THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK AND COMMUNITY IN LOWELL,
MASSACHUSETTS, 1920-1860
Bruce
Laurie, ARTISANS INTO WORKERS: LABOR IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA
Excepts from Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, CULTIVATION AND LABOR: LABOR AND THE SHAPING OF SLAVE LIFE IN THE AMERICAS
Julie Saville, THE WORK OF
RECONSTRUCTION: FROM SLAVE TO WAGE
LABOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Nick Salvatore, EUGENE V. DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST
Edward Lewison, LABOR ON THE MARCH
Thomas Bell, OUT OF THIS FURNACE
Connie Potter, ALL-BRIGHT COURT
Peter Kwong, THE NEW
CHINATOWN
Joshua Freeman, WORKING-CLA
SS NEW YORK
Jefferson Cowie, CAPITAL MOVES: RCA'S SEVENTY-YEAR QUEST FOR CHEAP LABOR
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two research essays and several brief essays.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Schatz,Ronald W.
- Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: SCIE139
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 40)
- SR. major: 6 Jr. major: 6
- SR. non-major: 7 Jr. non-major: 7 SO: 7 FR: 7
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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