History 644
HISTORY COMPARATIVE WORLD LABOR HISTORY
Prof. Jackson
San Francisco State University
Spring 1998
MW 2:10-3:25 p.m. HSS 282
Office: Science 265A
Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:30-1:00; by appointment
Phone: (415) 338-7536
e-mail: jacksonc@sfsu.edu
One of the richest areas of modern social studies is lab or history. Labor history boasts a widevariety of approaches, sources and methods in its attempt to shed light on the lives, thoughts, and struggles of the working class, from anthropology to psychology, from autobiography to statistics. This course will take acomparative approach to deal with the lives of working people of the past.
Course requirements: Students will be required to participate indiscussion, write two brief book reviews, and produce a major researchpaper, based on original research. Book reviews will be due March 4th and April 1st. Grading: Each review is worth 15% of the final grade; theresearch paper is worth 70%. The final research project will be due May 20th. Note: Failure to complete all course requirements will result in a gradeof "F." The instructor will not initiate withdrawals. If you choose not tocomplete the course, it is up to you to drop it in time (February 25 is thedeadline). Incompletes will only be given in situations of genuineemergency, and suitable documentation will be required.
Required Reading:
Katznelson, Ira and Aristide R. Zolberg, Eds. Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). ISBN 0-691-10207-4
Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991). ISBN 0-674-51782-2
Walder, Andrew. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).ISBN 0-520-06470-4
Lindemann, Albert S. A History of European Socialism (New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1983), Introduction, chaps. 2,3,4,5,6,7. ISBN 0-30-03246-3
Sewell, William H., Jr. Working and Revolution in France: The Language ofLabor from the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1980).
ISBSN 0-521-29951-9Harris, Alice K. Women Have Always Worked (New York: Feminist Press, 1981).ISBN 0-912670-67-3
Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of theAmerican Working Class (London: Verso, 1991).ISBN 0-86091-5506
Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (Providence: Berg, 1993).
Weeks 1 and 2: Laborers and the Industrial Revoluti on: The Formation of the Working Class
Briggs, Asa. "The Language of 'Class' in Early Nineteenth Century England." Ed. Briggs, Asa, and John Saville. Essays in Labour History (New York: St. Martin's, 1967, pp.69-73.
Katznelson, Ira and Aristide R. Zolberg, Eds. Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Introduction, chaps. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9.
Options:Schofer, Lawrence. The Formation of a Modern Labor force: Upper Silesia, 1865-1914. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).
Sonenscher, Michael. The Hatters of Eighteenth Century France. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.)
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. (New York: Vintage, 1966; orig. pub. 1963).
Week 3: Dislocation and Disruption
Thompson, E.P. "Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capit alism." Past & Present (1967), pp.56-97.
Option:
Scott, Joan Wallach. The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City . (Cambridge: Harvard University Pr ess, 1974).
Weeks 4 : Protest and Revolution
Sewell, William H., Jr. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
Options:
Geary, Dick. European Labour Protest, 1848-1939. (London: Methuen, 1981).
Moore, Barrington. Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedie nce and Revolt. (White Plains: Sharpe, 1978).
Weeks 5: Labor and Marxism
Lindemann, Albert S. A History of European Socialism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), Introduction, chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Options:
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto.
Steenson, Gary. "Not One Man! Not One Penny!" German Social Democracy, 1863-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh P ress, 1981).
Lorwin, Val. The French Labor Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954).
Moss, Bernard. The Origins of the French Labor Move ment: Socialism of Skilled Workers, 1830-1940 (Berkeley: Universit y of California Press, 1976; rpt. 1980). UCB HD 8431.M67
Pelling, Henry. The Origins of the Labour Party, 18 80-1900. 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965; orig. pub. 1954). UCB JN 1129.L32.P4 1965
Schorske, Carl. German Social Democracy, 1905-1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Cambridge: Harvard Univer sity Press, 1983; orig. pub. 1954).
Week 6: An "Aristocracy" of Labor? Class and Class Consciousness
Pelling, Henry. "The Concept of the Labour Aristocrac y." In Henry Pelling, ed., Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian England. (New York: St. Martin's, 1968).
Foster, J. "British Imperialism and the Labour Aristo cracy." In Jeffrey Skelley, ed., The General Strike, 1926 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976).
Week 7: Talking with the Workers: Autobiographies
Mayne,s Mary Jo. Taking the Hard Road
Options:
Kelly, Alfred, Ed. The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987.
Vincent, David. Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography. (London: Me thuen, 1981).
Kanatchikov, S. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich. Trans, ed. Reginald Zeln ik. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986).
Week 8: Working Women
Harris, Alice K., Women Have Always WorkedJoan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review, 91 (1986), pp.1053-1075.
Options:
Lewenhak, Sheila. Women and Work: An Historical Survey. (New York: St. Martin's, 1980).
Canning, Kathleen. "Gender and the Politics of Class Formation: Rethinking German Labor History, 1880-1930." American Histor ical Review, 97 (1992), pp.736-768.
Options
Glickman, Rose L. Russian Factory Women. Workplace and Society, 1880-1914. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984 ).
Hilden, Patricia. Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880-1914: A Regional Study. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). HD6073.T42.F841 1986
Quataert, Jean. Reluctant Feminists in German Social D emocracy, 1885-1917. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).
Harrison, Brian. "Class and Gender in Modern British Labour History." Past & Present No.124 (August 1989), pp.121-158.
Week 9: Non-Western Labor
Walder, Andrew. Communist Neo-traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
Options: Gordon, Andrew. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
Garon, Sheldon. The State and Labor in Modern Japan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
Week 10: Labor and the Law
Kahn-Freund, Otto. "The Social Ideal of the Reich L abor Court." Labour Law and Politics in the Weimar Republic: Otto K ahn-Freund. Ed. Lewis, Roy and Jon Clark. (Oxford: Basil Blackwel l, 1981).
Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the Am erican Labor Movement. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991). ISBN 0-674-51782-2
Week 11: Labor Under Fascism
Mason, Tim. Social Policy in the Third Reich.
Week 12: Labor and Race
Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness.
Note: the remaining weeks will consist of individual consultations with theinstructor regarding the research project.
Important Journals:
Annales
Geschichte und Gesellschaft
International Labor and Working Class History (ILWCH)
Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Social History
Journal of Social History
History Workshop
Past & Present
Journal of Modern History
American Historical Review
German Studies Review
Radical History Review
Dissent