11. April 14: Capitalism, Labor and Political Economy

Readings:

Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

Supplemental Readings:

Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Jim - Nelson Lichctenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton University Press, 2002)

Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor, American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Presss, 2006)

More Resources:

H-US 1918-1945 The New Deal era and its Origins, provides a forum for research and teaching the history of the United States, from 1918 to 1945.

H-Labor H-labor is particularly interested in fostering international discussion of labor history topics. It also recognizes that teaching the history of workers entails maintaining some knowledge of working people and their unions today.