Digital Reading Room 2.0 -- HIST 335: Global Labour History

HIST 335: Global Labour History Report a Broken Link

Welcome to Global Labour History, an Athabasca University course that is cross-listed as Labour Studies, Global Studies, and History because of its broad relevance across disciplines. While you are enrolled in this course under only one of these designations, the course materials are the same for all three.

The following items are all required readings that have a direct relevance and connection to the course content. You may access this Digital Reading Room from the Athabasca University Library website or from the course website for Global Labour History.

Textbook

Silver, B. J. (2003). Forces of labor: Workers' movements and globalization since 1870. Cambridge University Press.

Required Readings

Unit 1

A Theoretical Framework: Beverly Silver’s Forces of Labour

Unit 1 does not have any required online readings; all assigned readings are from the course textbook.

Unit 2

Workers During the British Empire: Cotton, Coal, Craft Unions, and Workers’ Parties

Section 2.1: World Markets and Working-Class Formation

van der Linden, M. (2003). Labour history as the history of multitudes. Labour/Le Travail, 52(Fall): 235-243.

Taylor, E. R. (2006). Shipboard insurrections in the Atlantic slave trade. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.01350.x

Andrews, S. C., & Fenton, J. P. (2001, June). Archaeology and the invisible man: The role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820-1870. World Archaeology, 33(1): 115-136.

Lucassen, J. (2004). A multinational and its labor force: The Dutch East India Company, 1595-1795. International Labor and Working-Class History, 66(Fall): 12-39.

Section 2.2: Europe: Workers Start to Organize

Ness, I. (2009). Luddism and machine breaking. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00935.x

Kelly, J. M. (2009). Chartists. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00327.x

Section 2.3 Imperialism: Challenge for Labour Internationalism

Conner, C. D. (2009). Imperialism, historical evolution. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00746.x

Unit 3

US Hegemony and the Cold War: Oil, Automobiles, and Industrial Unionism

Section 3.1: Workers in the West . . .

Rutherford, J. (2009). Fascism, protest and revolution. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00549.x

Pretshold, K. (1933, July). Do farmers “revolt”? The North American Review, 236(1): 13-22.

Mackenzie, G. (1977, June). The political economy of the American working class. The British Journal of Sociology, 28(2): 244-252.

Mitchell, W. (1975). Wives of the radical labour movement. Labour History, 29: 1-14.

Hall, S. (2010). The life and times of the first new left. New Left Review, 61(Jan-Feb).

Section 3.2: in the East . . .

Sochor, Z. A. (1981, April). Soviet Taylorism revisited. Soviet Studies, 33(2): 246-264.

Laczó, F. (2009). Hungary, Revolution of 1956. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00733.x

Section 3.3: . . . and in the South

Lane, M. (2009). Indonesian revolution and counterrevolution. In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest. Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405184649.2009.00762.x

de Clercq, F. (1979, Jan.-Apr.). Apartheid and the organised labour movement. Review of African Political Economy (14): 69-77.

Minns, J. (2001, Nov.). The labour movement in South Korea. Labour History (81): 175-195.

Unit 4

After Hegemony: Toward Global Labour Movements?

Section 4.1: Workers Between the Cold War and Global Capitalism

Schmidt, I. (2009). German labour experiences since World War Two: A suggested interpretation. Labour/Le Travail, 63(Spring): 157-179.

Mandel, D. (2001). “Why is there no revolt?” The Russian working class and labour movement. Socialist Register, 37, 171-195.

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Beynon, H., & Ramalho, J. R. (2001). Democracy and the organization of class struggle in Brazil. Socialist Register, 37, 219-238.

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Section 4.2: Labour Internationalism at Last?

Navarro, V. (2006, Sept.). The worldwide class struggle. Monthly Review, 58(4): 18-33.

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