HISTORY 316Z: WORKERS AND WORK IN AMERICA, 1600-PRESENT
Fall, 1997 -- Prof. Gerald Zahavi
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COURSE MECHANICS:
Syllabus Introduction
Course Introduction
Grading
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Course Texts
Films and Videos
COURSE CONTENT:
Introduction
Perspectives and Sources in the Study of Workers and Work
Work and Subsistence Among New England Amerindians
Bound Labor and Free Labor in Colonial America
Household Production and Market Capitalism
Women and the Household Economy
Men and Women in the Early Industrial Era
The Black Working Class, I: Slavery and After
The Black Working Class, II: Slavery and After
"Free Labor" and the Turbulent Decade: The 1870s
The Making of a Modern Industrial and Service Working Class
Immigrant Workers
Unions and Workers, I
Unions and Workers, II
Women's Work Cultures in Early 20th Century America
Divided Workers: Race, Ethnicity, and Labor in the Early 20th Century
Controlling Workers: Scientific Management and Welfare Capitalism
Labor in the South: Appalachia
Radicalism, Labor, and the Coming of the Great Depression
Agricultural Labor and Radicalism in the 1930s
Women and the CIO
Race, Gender, and War
The Cold War and Labor, I
The Cold War and Labor, II
Working-Class Icons: Labor and Hollywood
Labor, Technology, and the Meaning of Progress
The New Economy and Labor
Updated Sept. 1, 1997
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