History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 204 Work and the Working Classes
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM
Topics to be considered in this seminar include: artisan life and consciousness, early industrialization and antebellum working-class movements; labor politics and militancy in the late nineteenth century; corporate capitalism and the labor process; labor history through the lens of race, gender and immigration; the state, law and labor; the rise of mass production unionism; the demise of organized labor in recent times; the impact of deindustrialization; and work today and in the future. Field trips and films will be an important part of the class. There will be several written assignments, group presentations, and no exams.
