As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) will present "Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs." Gordon is an historian of US public policy, political economy, and urban […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy’s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series, Nelson Lichtenstein (History, UC Santa Barbara) will present “A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton, American Capitalism, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times.” Lichtenstein is the Academic Senate's 2019 Faculty Research Lecturer. […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Bernhard Rieger (History, University of Leiden) will present "Making Society Work Again: Workfare in Transnational Context since the 1960s"." Rieger's research examines European history within a comparative and transnational framework. His […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Eric Rauchway (History, University of California Davis) will present "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941." Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, David Stein (African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles) will present "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979." […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Andrew Hartman (History, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War." Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman." Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on […]
On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US." WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking." Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) […]
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future." It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics […]