HIST 4400 - Riots, Reds, and Riffraff: A History of the American Working Class

Hours: 4
This course explores three related topics: the history of work in American life since the mid-nineteenth century; the role of class and class consciousness in American society; and the history of the American labor movement. The following questions will guide us through these three topics: how and why work has changed over the last 150 years; whether there was in the past a distinct and self-conscious “working class”; and how and why labor unions sought to transform the relations of power in American workplaces and in the larger society; We will also examine how and why race and gender have shaped the workplace and class relations.

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HIST 4400 - Riots, Reds, and Riffraff: A History of the American Working Class