HIST 380 - U.S. Labor and Leisure: History of the American Working Classes

3 Credit(s)

This course examines developments and important episodes in the history of the American working classes on the shop floor and beyond the factory’s gates from the 1820s through modern times. It surveys major themes and issues in U.S. labor history, including the rise of industrialization, formations of class and class consciousness, changes to labor markets and work processes, labor radicalism, unionization, and the impacts of gender, race, and ethnicity on working- class history.