Teaching Labour History

History 6075

Winter, 1999

An examination of the historiography of labour and working-class history in England, the United States, and Canada.

W. J. C. Cherwinski and G. S. Kealey, eds., Lectures in Labour and Working-Class History (St. John's: CCLH, 1985)

D. Frank and G. S. Kealey, eds., Labour and Working-Class History in Atlantic Canada (St. John's: ISER, 1995)

H. G. Gutman, Work, Culture and Society (NY: Vintage, 1976)

H. G. Gutman, Power and Culture (NY: Pantheon, 1988)

P. Joyce, Visions of the People (Cambridge: CUP, 1993)

P. Joyce, Democratic Subjects (Cambridge: CUP, 1995)

H. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians (Oxford: Polity, 1984)

G. S. Kealey, Class, Gender and Region (St. John's: CCLH, 1988)

G. S. Kealey, Toronto Workers (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991)

G. S. Kealet, Workers and Canadian History (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995)

G. S. Kealey and B. D. Palmer, Dreaming of What Might Be (Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1987)

D. Montgomery, Fall of the House of Labor (NY: Cambridge, 1989)

B. D. Palmer, Descent Into Discourse (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)

B. D. Palmer, E. P. Thompson (London: Verso, 1994)

B. D. Palmer, Working-Class Experience, 2 ed. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992)

Joy Parr, Gender of Breadwinners (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)

E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working-Class (London: Penguin, 1963)

E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (New York: New Press, 1991)

E. P. Thompson, Persons and Polemics (London: Merlin, 1994) (U. S. Title: Making History)

I. 14 January: Introduction
Note: 11:00 a.m. - School of Graduate Studies, Room ER-6032
II. 21 January: Labour History - British Roots
III. 27 January: Labour History - U. S. Roots
Note: 11:00 a.m. - School of Graduate Studies, Room ER-6032
IV. 4 February: Labour History - Canadian Roots
V. 11 February: Labour & Working-Class History - E. J. Hobsbawm
VI. 16 February: Labour & Working-Class History - E. P. Thompson
Note: 3:00 p.m. - School of Graduate Studies, Room ER-6032
VII. 25 February: Labour & Working-Class History - H. G. Gutman
VIII. 4 March: Labour & Working-Class History - David Montgomery
IX. 11 March: Labour & Working-Class History - David Bercuson
X. 18 March: Labour & Working-Class History - G. S. Kealey and Bryan Palmer
XI. 25 March: Labour & Working-Class History - Joy Parr
XII. 1 April: Labour & Working-Class History - Patrick Joyce
XIII. 8 April: Labour & Working-Class History - Gender and Labour