Since the vote was almost even split between “The Future of Work” and the “Democrats and Class Politics,” I’ve decided to do a bit of both. The required readings for our final week are:
Judith Stein’s piece picks up where we left off by providing, I think, a more pointed historical argument about what ended the New Deal order. While organized labor makes an appearance here, this is much more of a […]
Jefferson Cowie and Nick Salvatore, “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History,” International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 74 (Fall 2008).
Please remember that all of this week’s readings are optional. We will watch a documentary that day, but you are of course welcome to do the readings and comment on the readings here:
Please note that for this week you are not required to write a reading response but you are of course welcome to do so if it helps you organize your thoughts about the reading:
Irving Bernstein, The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 (Chicago, 2010): Chapter 1 up to section 5 (pages 47-66) and all of Chapter 2. [if you’re pressed on time please just f […]
Charles Postel, “The American Populist and Anti-Populist Legacy,” in Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies, John Abromeit, et al, eds. (Bl […]
Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Oakland, 2019), Chapters 3-5 (chapters 6 and 7 now “optional”)