I really agree with Jay’s analysis of the Winant article. While it reoriented my thinking on the PMC in a lot of ways, he misses this huge point of analysis on the PMC’s very existence that Jay pointed out. While […]
Stein’s piece was rather interesting as her economic story about the fall of the New Deal Order throws into light how stubborn Keynesianism was as the defining ideological “well” from which political leaders had […]
I was more convinced of Winant’s critique of New Deal Order historiography than of Cowie and Salvatore’s Long Exception argument largely because Cowie and Salvatore isolate politics, economics, and culture, […]
I found Jeff and Jordan’s analysis of Wright’s chapter to be very prescient. I agree that Wright’s analysis left much to be desired in terms of explaining how increased black political participation led to shifts […]
How did the internal contradictions underneath the apparent political consensus of New Deal Order lead to its subsequent unraveling in the 70s? How did the events of the 1959 Steel Strike encapsulate the dynamics […]
I agree with Hollis’s critique of the Fligstein article, which purports to challenge and oversimplified and abstracted narrative of the causes of the Great Migration, but falls into that very trap. I agree with […]
In Leon Fink’s Chapter, “The Great Strikes Revisited* from his book *The Long Gilded Age — American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order*, he aims to put the reader back in the historical moment of […]
I agree with Chris’s discussion about the mutually constitutive imperialist relationship between the state and the corporation described in *Empire’s Tracks*. I was also convinced of Kaurka’s argument that “from […]
I agree with Chris’s interpretation of Du Bois’s argument on the rise of racial ideology, and how its accompanying divisions caused crucial opportunities for working class solidarity to be missed. I think that […]
It seems to me that Wilentz’s analysis certainly would have benefitted from Boydston’s historiographical contributions in terms of highlighting the social, cultural, and political importance of women’s wage work. […]
I agree with Hulya’s interpretation of the Lamoreaux article, in that the moral economists of the 1970s had a flawed conception of capitalism that is filtered through overly strict dichotomies that guide their […]
