CUNY Academic Commons | Jeffrey Vandervennet | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jeffvand13/activity/ Activity feed for Jeffrey Vandervennet. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ac4d076e9b9b30d1e135f71e54b471e8 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion for October 7: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Lean Years, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/10/01/reading-discussion-for-october-7-freedom-and-unfreedom-in-the-lean-years/#comment-119 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:32:35 -0400 Fligstein opens his essay by recognizing the importance of context when studying history. People are products of their environments, and political and social conditions constrain actions. The author shows us the […]

]]> 0b6e5c012a64ef4ee82e2870a31c9c74 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion for September 30: Populism and Radicalism, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/09/24/reading-discussion-for-september-30-populism-and-radicalism/#comment-104 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:07:38 -0400 Fink criticizes viewing the Gilded Age as a singular event, and not in context of broader American history. Criticizes the opposite approach, that the similarities in results between contemporary labor-capital […]

]]> 3668bdb4dc35b3fbdb354db8224c98e1 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion for September 23: The Work of Conquest and Development, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/09/16/reading-discussion-for-september-23-the-work-of-conquest-and-development/#comment-87 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:59:44 -0400 I appreciated Batzell’s scholarship about the Workingmen in California, enlightening me to a political struggle I had never learned about. Their grievances included a wholesale critique of the rapid i […]

]]> 9edf7bdca38b32d1e6a4e42431e20d45 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion for September 16: Slavery and Freedom, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/09/09/reading-discussion-for-september-16-slavery-and-freedom/#comment-65 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:53:16 -0400 First off, I was enthralled with DuBois’ writing. He effortlessly weaves historical sources and analysis, and does so with a refreshing clarity. Essentially, as Chris and Hollis have noted, he reframes civil war h […]

]]> ab5c32107a6561c8962f39059af270d5 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion for September 9: Varieties of Non-Slave Labor, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/09/02/reading-discussion-for-september-9-varieties-of-non-slave-labor/#comment-39 Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:38:13 -0400 I share the head posters critiques that Chants Democratic is definitely not a comprehensive guide to the economy and society of pre-industrial New York City, but rather a glimpse into the specific window of the […]

]]> f7eeafde9fd69cde68090afaa8b15223 Jeffrey Vandervennet commented on the post, Reading Discussion September 2: Work and the Origins of American Capitalism, on the site United States Labor History https://uslaborhistory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/09/01/reading-discussion-september-2-work-and-the-origins-of-american-capitalism/#comment-18 Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:40:16 -0400 In this week’s reading, the central thesis has been the author’s search for the time period in which the American economy transitions from one which includes marketplaces to a full market economy, where all of our […]

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