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Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment
June 3, 2011 @ 12:00 am
Please join us for a talk by Steven Attewell, UCSB Department of History
“Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment.”
Attewell is a Ph.D candidate in the Policy History Program of the History Department. “Right to Work?” is a chapter in the forthcoming dissertation, “Public At Work: Direct Job Creation Policy from the New Deal to the Rise of Reagan,” which studies the development of the “missing link” in the American welfare state through a focus on policy design, institutions, economic theories, and political ideology. Previous chapters have been presented at the Policy History Conference and at the LERF/IRLE Conference.
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, June 3 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
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