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HIST 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy
Hosts leading scholars of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. whose work touches upon the history and character of work, employment, labor, poverty, race, ethnicity, political economy, and public policy.
HIST 167CP: Proseminar in American Working Class History
A research and writing seminar in American working class history with emphasis on the twentieth-century period. A major research paper will be required on a seminar related topic.
HIST 167CB: The American Working Class Since 1900
A survey of American workers from the turn of the century to the present
period. Topics include workers and American socialism, the 1919 steel
strike, the rise of the CIO, labor and the Cold War, and
deindustrialization and workers.
HIST 167Q: Labor Internship Seminar
This research seminar provides students with a set of readings and assignments to develop a 20-page research paper that is based on historical and social science methods and on some aspect of their internship.
