November 17, 2004
SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Required
Couvares, et al., chapter 3
Recommended
Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
(1976)
Thomas Dublin, Women and Work: The Transformation of Work and Community
in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979)
Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America
(1977)
Michael B. Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A History
of Social Welfare in America (1986)
Ira Katznelson & Margaret Weir, Schooling for All: Class, Race,
and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (1985)
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women
in the United States (1982)
Bruce Laurie, Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 (1980)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace,
the State and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987)
David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the
American Working Class (1991)
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure
in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (1983)
Robert Wiebe, The Segmented Society: An Historical Preface to the
Meaniing of America (1975)
Sean Wilenz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the
American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984)