HISTORY822–STUDIESINECONOMICHISTORY–SPRING2012
HISTORYOFAMERICANCAPITALISM
(VER.2.3‐APRIL24,2012)
D E P A R T M E N T O F H I S T O R Y , U N I V E R S I T Y O F W I S C O N S I N ‐M A D I S O N S E M I N A R M E E T S – Thursdays,11:00a.m.to1:00p.m.,5257MosseHumanitiesBuilding
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cdunlavy@wisc.edu
O F F I C E H O U R S :TuesdaysandThursdays,5:30‐6:30p.m.,orbyappointment(emailme)
Itishopedthatthis[seminar]willinterestitsreaders,willexcitecuriosity,willopentheir
minds,andwillthusleadthemtocontinuetheir...studies....Theimpressionwhichitis
desiredthatthis[seminar]shouldleaveissomethinglikethis:“Politicaleconomyisan
interestingandmostimportantbranchofhumanknowledge.Inowseewhatitisallabout,and
havingsurveyedthefieldIproposetotakeupspecialquestions,liketaxationandthelabor
movement,andstudythemcarefully.IdonotfeelsomuchthatIreallyknowagreatdeal
aboutpoliticaleconomyasthatIamnowinapositiontolearnsomething.”
–AdaptedfromRichardT.Ely,ANINTRODUCTIONTOPOLITICALECONOMY(1889)
OURAGENDA
Economichistory,onceregardedasanindispensableelementofgraduatetraining,notonlyin
historybutacrossthesocialsciences,hasvirtuallydisappearedfromthegraduatecurriculum.But
inrecentyearsanewfieldofhistory—thehistoryofcapitalism—hascoalesced.1Itshallmarkisthat
ithistoricizescapitalismitself,denaturalizingitandexploringthepolitical,social,andeconomic
conditionsthathaveshapeditshistory.
ThisseminarwillfocusonthehistoryofAmericancapitalismfromthemid‐eighteenthcentury
throughthetwentiethcentury.Itisaimednotonlyatstudentswhoenvisionbecominghistorians
ofcapitalismthemselvesbutalsoatstudentsinotherfieldsordisciplineswhoseresearchagendas
wouldbenefitfromabetterunderstandingofU.S.economichistory.Myassumption–giventhe
1Thelastcoupleofyearshaveseenaburstofactivity.State‐of‐the‐fieldsessionsonthehistoryofcapitalism
wereheldatthe2010annualmeetingsoftheAmericanHistoricalAssociationandtheOrganizationof
AmericanHistorians,avarietyofpublications(encyclopedias,bookseries)areintheplanningstages,
Harvard’sProgramontheStudyofCapitalismhasheldanannualgraduate‐studentworkshopsince2009,the
CultureoftheMarketNetwork(acollaborationofscholarsattheUniversityofManchester,OxfordUniversity,
TheNewSchool,andHarvardUniversity)organizedaconferenceonPowerandtheHistoryofCapitalismin
April2011,theUniversityofGeorgia’sWorkshopontheCulturalHistoryofCapitalismwillconvenea
conferenceon"CapitalisminAmerica:ANewHistory"inearly2012,thethemeofthe2012OAHmeetingis
“FrontiersofCapitalismandDemocracy,”andthethemeofthe2012annualmeetingoftheSocialScience
HistoryAssociationis“HistoriesofCapitalism.”
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declineofeconomichistoryinuniversitycurricula–isthatmoststudentswillnothavehadmuch,if
any,exposuretothesubject.Therefore,nospecializedknowledgeispresumed.
Webeginwithsomereadingsthatwillserveasacommonpointoforientation.Thenweproceed,
movingtopicallyandalsoroughlychronologically,throughthehistoryofAmericancapitalism.One
basicgoalistogiveyoutheconceptualtoolstoidentifydifferentinterpretiveapproachestohistory
ofcapitalism;thesecondistogiveyouabasicgroundinginthehistoryitselffromthemid‐
eighteenthcenturytothelatetwentiethcentury.(Forthelatterreason,Ihaveoptedforthe“tasting
menu,”ratherthan“entrée”approachtosyllabusconstruction.)
NoteforU.S.Historygraduatestudents:Youmayusethisseminartosatisfyeitherthenineteenth‐
orthetwentieth‐centuryrequirement,dependingonthetopicofyourfinalpaper.
ASSIGNMENTSANDGRADING
Thefocusofseminarmeetingswillbetheassignedreadings,givenbyweekbelow.Withone
exception(theZakimandKornblithcollection),theywillbeavailableonLearn@UWandonlibrary
reserve.Foreachweek,Iwillalsofurnishsuggestionsforfurtherreading(viamywebsite).
Studentswilltaketurns,workinginteams,tofacilitatetheweeklydiscussion.
Threetypesofwritingassignmentsarerequired.First,foratleasteightweeks,postabrief
responsetotheweek’sreadingsonLearn@UWby8:00a.m.onThursday.Thismaytaketheform
ofquestionsthatyouwouldlikeustoaddressinseminarormayofferyourreflectionsonthe
readings.Youchoosetheweeks,excludingFeb.2,March29(thesecondassignmentisdue),and
theweeksinwhichyouareleadingdiscussion.Secondisareviewessay(ca.5‐7pp.),duemidway
throughourtopical‐chronologicalsurvey(25%).Yourgoalwillbetobringinsightsfromour
readingsanddiscussionstobearinacritiqueofabookonthehistoryofcapitalism.Yourthirdand
finalassignmentisahistoriographicalpaper(akaliteraturereview)oraresearchpaper—your
choice.Ineithercase,itshouldberoughly12‐15pagesinlengthandonatopicrelatedtoyour
researchinterests.Historygraduatestudentsarestronglyencouragedtochoosetheresearch‐
paperoption.Aimtohavesettledonyourtopic,atthelatest,bytheduedateofthereviewessay
(March29).
“Participation,”whichwillcountfor50%ofyourgrade,entailspostingatleasteight,substantive
responsestothereadings;comingtoseminareveryweekpreparedtodiscussthemindepth;and
facilitatingdiscussion.Thereviewessaywillcountfor20%andthefinalpaper,for30%.
RECOMMENDEDREADINGS
Asnotedabove,suggestionsforfurtherreadingsarebedistributedforeachweek.Thefollowing
arerecommendationsofamoregeneralorpracticalnature.
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Forgeneralinspiration:MarcBloch,TheHistorian’sCraft(NewYork:VintageBooks,1953)
orlateredition.Multiplecopiesareavailableinthelibrary.
Ifyouneedtoimproveyourwritingstyle(andwhodoesn’t?),thisoldstandbyis
indispensable:WilliamStrunk,Jr.,andE.G.White,TheElementsofStyle,4thed.(NewYork:
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Longman,2000).Theoriginal(1918)editionisavailableonlineat
http://www.bartleby.com/141/.AlsovaluableisStephenJ.Pyne,VoiceandVision:AGuide
toWritingHistoryandOtherSeriousNonfiction(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,
2009).
Tohoneyouranalyticalskills,consultM.NeilBrowneandStuartM.Keeley,AskingtheRight
Questions:AGuidetoCriticalThinking(EnglewoodCliffs,N.J.:PrenticeHall–anyrecent
edition).TheclassicbyDavidHackettFischer,Historians'Fallacies:TowardaLogicof
HistoricalThought(NewYork:Harper&Row,1970),thoughdated,isstillusefully
entertaining.
Ontheresearchprocess,thisbookisindispensable:KateL.Turabian,AManualforWriters
ofResearchPapers,Theses,andDissertations:ChicagoStyleforStudentsandResearchers,
rev.byWayneC.Booth,GregoryG.Columb,JosephM.WilliamsandtheUniversityof
ChicagoPressEditorialStaff,7thed.(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2007).Make
sureit’sthisedition.
Forthinkingaboutpower,myfavoriteisStephenLukes,Power:ARadicalView,eitherthe
original(1974)ed.orthesecondedition(2005),providesanexcellentintroduction.The
secondeditionincludestheoriginaleditioninunrevisedformandtwoadditionalchapters
inwhichLukesamendshisownworkandrespondstocritics.
WEEKLYSCHEDULE
TheeditedcollectionbyZakimandKornblith(Week10)shouldbeavailableforpurchaseatlocal
bookstoresandwillbeonreserveatthelibrary.Allotherrequiredreadingswillbeavailableon
ourLearn@UWwebsiteandinatwo‐partcoursepackavailableforpurchaseattheHumanities
CopyCenter.Ifpossible,readtheassignedreadingsintheordergiven.
WEEK1.JANUARY26–INTRODUCTIONS
WEEK2.FEBRUARY2–CONCEPTUALIZINGTHEHISTORYOFCAPITALISM
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TonyBennett,LawrenceGrossberg,andMeaghanMorris,eds.,NewKeywords:ARevised
VocabularyofCultureandSociety(Malden,Mass.:BlackwellPublishing,2005),entrieson
“capitalism”and“economy.”
PaulBowles,Capitalism,AShortHistoryofaBigIdeaseries,(Harlow,England:
Pearson/Longman,2007),1‐107.
JamesFulcher,Capitalism:AVeryShortIntroduction(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,
2004),1‐57.
SvenBeckert,“HistoryofAmericanCapitalism,”inAmericanHistoryNow,ed.EricFonerand
LisaMcGirr(Philadelphia:TempleUniversityPress,2011).
WilliamH.Sewell,Jr.,“TheTemporalitiesofCapitalism,”Socio‐EconomicReview6(2008):
517‐537.
WEEK3.FEBRUARY9–PROPERTYRIGHTSANDCONTRACTS
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StuartBanner,AmericanProperty:AHistoryofHow,Why,andWhatWeOwn(Cambridge:
HarvardUniversityPress,2011),1‐72,94‐108.
DavidWaldstreicher,Slavery’sConstitution:FromRevolutiontoRatification(NewYork:Hill
andWang,2009),3‐19(“Prologue:MeaningfulSilences”).
DeborahA.Rosen,“WomenandPropertyacrossColonialAmerica:AComparisonofLegal
SystemsinNewMexicoandNewYork.”WilliamandMaryQuarterly60,no.2.3dser.(April
2003):355‐381.
ElizabethM.Pruden,“InvestingWidows:AutonomyinaNascentCapitalistSociety,”in
Money,Trade,andPower:TheEvolutionofColonialSouthCarolina’sPlantationSociety,ed.
JackP.Greene,RosemaryBrana‐Shute,andRandyJ.Sparks(Columbia:UniversityofSouth
CarolinaPress,2001),344‐362.
AmyDruStanley,FromBondagetoContract:WageLabor,Marriage,andtheMarketinthe
AgeofSlaveEmancipation(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998),ix‐xvi,1‐59
(Prefaceandch.1,LegendsofContractFreedom).
RichardH.Chused,“LateNineteenthCenturyMarriedWomen’sPropertyLaw:Receptionof
theEarlyMarriedWomen’sPropertyActsbyCourtsandLegislatures,”AmericanJournalof
LegalHistory29,no.1(January1985):3‐35.
WEEK4.FEBRUARY16COLONIALCAPITALISM
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AnnM.CarlosandFrankD.Lewis,CommercebyaFrozenSea:NativeAmericansandthe
EuropeanFurTrade(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2010),1‐105(chs.1‐
3).
CarolineFrank,ObjectifyingChina,ImaginingAmerica:ChineseCommoditiesinEarlyAmerica
(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2011),97‐142(ch.3,IslandsofIllicitRefinement:
BohiaandChaneyfortheNorthernPlantations).
S.MaxEdelson,PlantationEnterpriseinColonialSouthCarolina(Cambridge:Harvard
UniversityPress,2006),92‐165(chs.3‐4).
MAINLYNINETEENTHCENTURY
WEEK5.FEBRUARY23–POST‐COLONIALCAPITALISM
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RichardSylla,“FinancialFoundations:PublicCredit,theNationalBank,andSecurities
Markets,”inFoundingChoices:AmericanEconomicPolicyinthe1790s,ed.DouglasA.Irwin
andRichardSylla(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2011),59‐88.
DouglasA.Irwin,“RevenueorReciprocity?FoundingFeudsoverEarlyU.S.TradePolicy,”in
ibid.,89‐120.
Lamoreaux,NaomiR.“RethinkingtheTransitiontoCapitalismintheEarlyAmerican
Northeast.”JournalofAmericanHistory90,no.2(2003):437‐461.
JamesR.Fichter,SoGreataProffit:HowtheEastIndiesTradeTransformedAnglo‐American
Capitalism(Cambridge,Mass.,andLondon:HarvardUniversityPress,2010),82‐110,205‐
231,252‐277(ch.4,“America’sRe‐exportBoom”;ch.8,“America’sChinaandPacificTrade”;
ch.10,“AmericanCapitalandAmericanCorporations”).
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PekkaHämäläinen,TheComancheEmpire(NewHavenandLondon:YaleUniversityPress,
2008),141‐180(ch.4,“TheEmpireofthePlains”).
WEEK6.MARCH1–CAPITALANDCREDIT
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RowenaOlegario,ACultureofCredit:EmbeddingTrustandTransparencyinAmerican
Business(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2006),1‐35(Introductionandch.1,
MercantilecreditinBritainandAmerica,1700‐1860).Anoverview–readquickly.
StuartBanner,Anglo‐AmericanSecuritiesRegulation:CulturalandPoliticalRoots,1690‐1860
(Cambridge,U.K:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998),190‐221(ch.6,Americanattitudes
towardsecuritiestrading,1792‐1860).
MichaelTadman,SpeculatorsandSlaves:Masters,Traders,andSlavesintheOldSouth
(Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,1989),11‐46(ch.2,ThescaleofNegro
speculation).
NaomiR.Lamoreaux,“Banks,Kinship,andEconomicDevelopment:TheNewEnglandCase,”
JournalofEconomicHistory46,no.3(1986):647‐667.
EdithSparks,CapitalIntentions:FemaleProprietorsinSanFrancisco,1850‐1920(Chapel
Hill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2006),83‐114(ch.3,Howwomenstarted
business).NB:Thebook’sintroductionisincludedinthepdf–thisisoptionalreading.
StephenMihm,ANationofCounterfeiters:Capitalists,ConMenandtheMakingoftheUnited
States(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2007),305‐359(ch.7,Bankingonthe
nation).NB:Thebook’sprologueisincludedinthepdf–thisisoptionalreading.
NaomiRLamoreaux,InsiderLending:Banks,PersonalConnections,andEconomic
DevelopmentinIndustrialNewEngland(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1994),84‐
106(Ch.4,Thedeclineofinsiderlendingandtheproblemofdetermining
creditworthiness).
WEEK7.MARCH8–LABOR
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RobertJ.Steinfeld,TheInventionofFreeLabor:TheEmploymentRelationinEnglishand
AmericanLawandCulture,1350‐1870(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,
1991),1‐14,122‐187(Introduction,chs.5‐6,Conclusion).
SethRockman,ScrapingBy:WageLabor,Slavery,andSurvivalinEarlyBaltimore
(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,2009),1‐15,100‐131(Introduction,ch.4).
JonathanDMartin,DividedMastery:SlaveHiringintheAmericanSouth(Cambridge,Mass:
HarvardUniversityPress,2004),1‐43,138‐160(Introduction,chs.1,5).
PaulKrause,TheBattleforHomestead,1880‐1892:Politics,Culture,andSteel(Pittsburgh:
UniversityofPittsburghPress,1992),3‐11,47‐91,(chs.1,3‐5).
DavidBrianRobertson,Capital,Labor,andState:TheBattleforAmericanLaborMarkets
fromtheCivilWartotheNewDeal(Lanham,MD:Rowman&LittlefieldPublishers,2000),
37‐63(ch.2,Laborandregulation,1865‐1900).
MelvynDubofsky,“TechnologicalChangeandAmericanWorkerMovements,1870‐1970,”in
Technology,theEconomy,andSociety:theAmericanExperience,ed.JoelColtonandStuart
Bruchey(NewYork:ColumbiaUniversityPress,1987),162‐185.
WEEK8.MARCH15–TECHNOLOGY/INDUSTRIALIZATION
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ColleenA.Dunlavy,“Technology,”OxfordCompaniontoUnitedStatesHistory,ed.PaulS.
Boyer(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2001),8pp.Note:Thisvolumeisavailable
onlinethroughMadCat.
ColleenA.Dunlavy,PoliticsandIndustrialization:EarlyRailroadsintheU.S.andPrussia
(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1994),3‐44,201‐234(ch.1,Introduction,andch.5,
NationalStylesofTechnology).
AlfredD.Chandler,Jr.,TheVisibleHand:TheManagerialRevolutioninAmericanBusiness
(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress/BelknapPress,1977),chs.7‐8(onmassdistribution
andmassproduction).Note:ThebookisavailableonlinethroughMadCat.
PhilipScranton,“MultipleIndustrializations:UrbanManufacturingDevelopmentinthe
AmericanMidwest,1880‐1925,”JournalofDesignHistory12,no.1(January1,1999):45‐63.
ThomasJ.Misa,ANationofSteel:TheMakingofModernAmerica,1865‐1925(Baltimore:
JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1995),xv‐xxiv,45‐89(Prefaceandch.2,Thestructureof
cities).
WendyGamber,“Dressmaking,”inGender&Technology:AReader,ed.NinaE.Lerman,Ruth
Oldenziel,andArwenMohun(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,2003),238‐266.
NinaLerman,“NewSouth,NewNorth:Region,Ideology,andAccessinIndustrial
Education,”inTechnologyandtheAfrican‐AmericanExperience:NeedsandOpportunitiesfor
Study,ed.BruceSinclair(Cambridge:MITPress,2004),77‐105.
ColleenA.DunlavyandThomasWelskopp,“MythsandPeculiarities:ComparingU.S.and
GermanCapitalism,”GermanHistoricalInstituteBulletin,no.41(Fall2007):33‐64.
WEEK9.MARCH22–THECORPORATION
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OscarHandlinandMaryF.Handlin,"OriginsoftheAmericanBusinessCorporation,"Journal
ofEconomicHistory5,no.1(May1945):1‐23.
L.RayGunn,TheDeclineofAuthority:PublicEconomicPolicyandPoliticalDevelopmentin
NewYorkState,1800‐1860(IthacaandLondon:CornellUniversityPress,1988),99‐114,
120‐121,222‐245.
ColleenA.Dunlavy,"FromCitizenstoPlutocrats:Nineteenth‐CenturyShareholderVoting
RightsandTheoriesoftheCorporation,"inConstructingCorporateAmerica:History,
Politics,Culture,eds.KennethLipartitoandDavidB.Sicilia(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,
2004),66‐93.
NaomiLamoreaux,TheGreatMergerMovementinAmericanBusiness,1895‐1904
(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1985),1‐13(ch.1,Introduction).
WilliamG.Roy,SocializingCapital:TheRiseoftheLargeIndustrialCorporationinAmerica
(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1997),221‐258(ch.8,AmericanIndustry
Incorporates).
NikkiMandell,TheCorporationasFamily:TheGenderingofCorporateWelfare,1890‐1930
(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2002).1‐47(Introductionandchs.1‐2).
RobertBussel,“’BusinesswithoutaBoss’:TheColumbiaConserveCompanyandWorkers’
Control,1917‐1943,”BusinessHistoryReview71(Autumn1997):417‐443.
JuliaOtt,WhenWallStreetMetMainStreet:TheQuestforanInvestors’Democracy
(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2011),55‐74(ch.3,“’BeaStockholderinVictory!’”).
MaryO’Sullivan,ContestsforCorporateControl:CorporateGovernanceandEconomic
PerformanceintheUnitedStatesandGermany(Oxford ;NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,
2000),70‐104(Ch.3,“TheFoundationsofManagerialControlintheUnitedStates”).
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WEEK10.MARCH29–REFLECTINGONTHE19THCENTURY
Yourreviewessayofthefollowingbookisdueinseminartoday:
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MichaelZakimandGaryJ.Kornblith,eds.,CapitalismTakesCommand:TheSocial
TransformationofNineteenth‐CenturyAmerica(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2012).
APRIL5–SPRINGBREAK
MAINLYTWENTIETHCENTURY
WEEK11.APRIL12–CONSUMERISM
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SusanStrasser,SatisfactionGuaranteed:TheMakingoftheAmericanMassMarket
(Washington,D.C.:SmithsonianBooks,1989),203‐251(ch.7,Thenewretailing).
WalterA.Friedman,BirthofaSalesman:TheTransformationofSellinginAmerica
(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2004),56‐87(ch.3,Forginganationalmarketplace:
thetravelingsalesman).
LawrenceB.Glickman,“TheStrikeintheTempleofConsumption:ConsumerActivismand
Twentieth‐CenturyAmericanPoliticalCulture”JournalofAmericanHistory88,no.1(June1,
2001):99‐128.
LizabethCohen,AConsumer'sRepublic:ThePoliticsofMassConsumptioninPostwarAmerica
(NewYork:Knopf,2003),112‐165(ch.3,Reconversion:theemergenceoftheconsumers’
republic).
LouisHyman,“EndingDiscrimination,LegitimatingDebt:ThePoliticalEconomyofRace,
Gender,andCreditAccessinthe1960sand1970s,”EnterpriseandSociety12(March2011):
200‐232.
WEEK12.APRIL19–NOSEMINAR
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BecauseoftheannualmeetingoftheOrganizationofAmericanHistoriansinMilwaukee.
WEEK13.APRIL26–THEPOST‐WWIIECONOMY
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PaulBowles,Capitalism,AShortHistoryofaBigIdeaseries,(Harlow,England:
Pearson/Longman,2007),108‐164(chs.5‐6onPost‐1945Capitalism).
MaryO’Sullivan,ContestsforCorporateControl:CorporateGovernanceandEconomic
PerformanceintheUnitedStatesandGermany(Oxford ;NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,
2000),105‐145(Ch.4,“ThePost‐warEvolutionofManagerialControlintheUnitedStates”).
JeffersonCowie,CapitalMoves:RCA’sSeventy‐YearQuestforCheapLabor(1999;NewYork:
NewPress,2001),41‐72,127‐151(ch.2,“Anythingbutanindustrialtown”:Bloomington,
1940‐1968,andch.5,“MovingtowardaShutdown:Bloomington,1969‐1998”).
BethanyMoreton,ToServeGodandWal‐Mart:TheMakingofChristianFreeEnterprise
(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2009),1‐144(Prologue,chs.1‐8).
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WilliamBoyd,“MakingMeat:Science,Technology,andAmericanPoultryProduction,”
TechnologyandCulture42(October2001):631‐664.
DavidB.Sicilia,“TheCorporationUnderSiege:SocialMovements,Regulation,Public
Relations,andTortLawsincetheSecondWorldWar,”inConstructingCorporate
America:History,Politics,Culture,eds.KennethLipartitoandDavidB.Sicilia(Oxford:
OxfordUniversityPress,2004),188‐220. WEEK14.MAY3–GLOBALIZATION
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PaulBowles,Capitalism,AShortHistoryofaBigIdeaseries,(Harlow,England:
Pearson/Longman,2007),165‐188(ch.7,GlobalCapitalism).
GeoffreyJones,“Globalization,”inOxfordHandbookofBusinessHistory,eds.GeoffreyJones
andJonathanZeitlin,(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2007),141–168.
MichaelLang,“Review:GlobalizationandItsHistory,”JournalofModernHistory78,no.4
(December2006):899‐931.
EmilyS.Rosenberg,FinancialMissionariestotheWorld:ThePoliticsandCultureofDollar
Diplomacy,1900‐1930(Durham:DukeUniversityPress,2003),1‐96(Introduction,chs.1‐
3).
MarcLevinson,“ContainerShippingandtheDeclineofNewYork,1955‐1975,”Business
HistoryReview80(Spring2006):59‐80.
DanSchiller,DigitalCapitalism:NetworkingtheGlobalMarketSystem(Cambridge,Mass.,
andLondon:MITPress,1999),37‐88(ch.2,“GoingGlobal:TheNeoliberalProjectin
TransnationalTelecommunications”).
NelsonLichtenstein,“SupplyChains,Workers’Chains,andtheNewWorldofRetail
Supremacy.”Labor:StudiesinWorkingClassHistoryoftheAmericas4,no.1(Spring2007):
17–31.
CommentsonLichtenstein,“SupplyChains,”andhisresponseinibid.,33‐63.
WEEK14.MAY15–NEO‐LIBERALISM/REDISCOVERYOFTHEMARKET
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ManfredB.StegerandRaviK.Roy,Neoliberalism:AVeryShortIntroduction(Oxford:OUP
Oxford,2010),1‐49(chs.1,“What’s‘Neo’aboutLiberalism?,”andch.2,“First‐Wave
Neoliberalisminthe1980s:ReagonomicsandThatcherism”).
KimPhillips‐Fein,InvisibleHands:TheBusinessmen’sCrusadeagainsttheNewDeal(New
YorkandLondon:W.W.Norton,2009),87‐114(ch.5,“HowtoBreakaUnion”).
DanielT.Rodgers,AgeofFracture(Cambridge,Mass.,andLondon:BelknapPressof
HarvardUniversityPress,2011),41‐76(ch.2,“TheRediscoveryoftheMarket”).
ShaneHamilton,“ThePopulistAppealofDeregulation:IndependentTruckersandthe
PoliticsofFreeEnterprise,1935‐1980,”EnterpriseandSociety10(March2009):137‐177.
MaryO’Sullivan,ContestsforCorporateControl:CorporateGovernanceandEconomic
PerformanceintheUnitedStatesandGermany(Oxford ;NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,
2000),146‐231(Ch.5,“ChallengestoPost‐WarManagerialControlintheUnitedStates,”
andch.6,“USCorporateResponsestoNewChallenges”).
WEEK16.MAY17?–WRAP‐UPDISCUSSION
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