History 391GP - S-ModAmerCapitalism,1877-Pres

This seminar reviews social and economic developments in U.S. history traditionally understood within local, regional, or national frameworks from a supranational perspective. Readings and discussion track the uneven, gradual, and contested development of work processes, labor relations, classes, and economic life in the late nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. by studying the international, transnational, and global dimensions of historical subjects ranging from American slave emancipation's effects on global agricultural production; causal linkages between industrialization, immigration, and working-class organization and culture; industrialization and expansion in the American Southwest and Mexico; the history of labor and work in America's formal and informal U.S. empire; the domestic creation and export of scientific management and Fordism; flows of American forms of production and consumption in postwar Europe; and the rise of finance capital and struggles to restructure relations between capital, labor, and the state in the so-called era of globalization.

Open to Seniors, Juniors & Sophomores only.