HISTORY 333: Labor & the Working Class in American History

WEEK 1 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Edmund S. Morgan, “The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-1618,” American Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 3 (June, 1971): 595-611.

WEEK 2 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Ira Berlin, “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America,” American Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 1 (February, 1980): 44-78 (excerpt).

John Blassingame, "Life in a Totalitarian System," in Portrait of America, ed. Stephen B. Oates and Charles J. Errico (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 324-337.

WEEK 3 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Peter Way, "Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers," Journal of American History, vol. 79, no. 4 (March, 1993): 1397-1428.

WEEK 4 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Tera W. Hunter, “‘Work that Body’: African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and  the New South,” in Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience, ed. Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 153-173.

WEEK 5 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Stephen Meyer, “Adapting the Immigrant to the Line: Americanization in the Ford Factory, 1914-1921,” Journal of Social History, vol. 14, no. 1 (Fall 1980): 67-82.

WEEK 6 ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Vicki Ruiz, “Unionization and Mexican-American Women, 1930s-1940s,” in Peoples of Color in the American West, ed. Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1994): 376-385.