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United States History
Graduate Student
B.A., University of California San Diego; M.A., University of California Riverside
Email: jmjensen@umail.ucsb.edu
Advisor: Mary Furner
Is it conceivable, and if so, how has it been suggested, that economic and social rights may be implemented through some set of international regulatory institutions? Are there such things as transnational rights? What lies behind the motivation for a multilateral defense of social and economic freedoms based on the right to work and to earn an adequate standard of living for the health and welfare of both self and family? My work draws attention to the influence of various international labor movements on U.S. policy development. It is my aim to redirect historical attention, within the United States and abroad, to global labor issues including international movements in support of global labor standards. (more...)
My dissertation, focusing on liberal labor internationalism, looks at the early years of the International Labor Organization (ILO), a tripartite agency representing workers, employers, and governments created in conjunction with the League of Nations in 1919. The organization studied workers’ lives and conditions and lobbied extensively for both international agreements and national law in support of labor rights. Aware of hardship in the lives of working people around the world, yet also fearing revolution and seeking social stabilization, governments, through the ILO, encouraged active participation by workers in conjunction with employers, state officials, and trade unionists in promoting legislation aimed at improving working conditions across industries.
Dissertation Title- International Labor Standards in the Building of two Postwar Orders, 1919-1954
Teaching Fields- Modern U.S. history; labor and social policy
- International relations and inter-governmental institutions
- International labor history and global markets
Courses Taught- Interdisciplinary Studies 192/199 DC
University of California Washington Center, Summer 2009
- History 167 Q: Labor Studies Internship
Spring 2009
- History 102 J: International Labor Movments, 1900 to the present
UCSB Session B, Summer 2008
Teaching Assistantships- Law and Society 1: Introduction to Law and Society
Fall 2007
- University of California Washington Center, Interdisciplinary Studies 199DC
Winter 2007 and Summer 2007
- Law and Society 112: Law and Society
Fall 2006
- History 17 B: The American People, 1830-1920
Summer 2006 and Summer 2005
- History 5 C: Western Civilization, 1715-present
Spring 2005
Awards- UCSB History Associates Robert L. Kelley Fellowship
May 2009
- Labor and Employment Research Fund Dissertation Fellowship
April 2008-March 2009
- UCSB History Department Research Fellowship
January 2008-March 2008
- Hoover Presidential Library Association Travel Grant
April 2007
- Labor and Employment Research Fund Pre-dissertation Fellowship
January 2007
Conference Papers- “For the Social and Economic Security of all Peoples: Developing Postwar Social Programs through the International Labor Organization, 1947-1954”
Transnational Social Policies, Reformist Networks, and the International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009
- "From Geneva to the Americas: Internationalizing Social Security from Depression to War"
Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: The Newberry Conference on Labor Across the Americas, Chicago, September 2008
- “Negotiating Labor’s Role in the Postwar World: Labor Diplomacy and the International Labor Organization, 1944-1950”
International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, UC Santa Barbara, April 2008
- “What the International Labor Organization Means to America: Labor Internationalism and U. S. Engagement with the International Labor Organization"
European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008
- “The Shape of Things to Come, ‘Wilsonian Laborism’: Work, War and International Trade, 1914-1920”
All-UC World History Group Conference, UC San Diego, October 2006
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