Work and Working Peoples' History

Catalog description

This course examines the evolution of work and workers in the United States since the Early American Colonial period. The course traces the transformation from an agrarian, to an industrial, to a technological age with an emphasis on the changing demands that the workforce and society faced. This course explores the evolution of class culture in the United States with an emphasis on the political and economic conditions and how labor strategically responded to those evolving forces. Students will come to understand how when social change occurs there is impact on the workforce and workers.