All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 617 Readings in American Economic, Business, Industrial, and Labor Histories
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
Topics to be considered in this reading seminar on American economic, business, industrial, and labor histories include: the north American colonial economy and capitalist transitions; early industrialization; working class ideology and mobilizations in the antebellum and Civil War periods; the rise of the corporation; transformation of work under corporate capitalism, hegemonic and dialectical views; labor history from the ground up and working class protest movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; labor history through the lenses of immigration, ethnicity, gender, and race; consumerism; the depression of the 1930s, the New Deal and the rise of mass production unionism; the post New Deal political economic order and organized labor; and workers in contemporary America, deindustrialization and the eclipse of trade unionism.
