History 691NE - Global Labor

Fall
2013
01
4.00
Bruce Laurie

TH 4:00PM 6:30PM

UMass Amherst
40013
This course begins with of the political economy of the United States from World War I through the 1970s, with some attention paid to Europe along the way. It then pivots more sharply to the rest of the world in or to capture the acceleration of global capitalism in the context of neoliberalism with the accent on labor policy and the related matters of inequality, race and gender relations, and so forth.
Open to Doctoral & Masters students only.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.