SOC 693
Spring 201
Politics of Labor and Capital in the
U.S.
Meets with Political Science 517
Section 1: Theories of Political
Economy
In-Class Exercises (using Tucker Part II or Capital Volume1)
What is dialectical reasoning?
What is commodity exchange, and how does it
produce exploitation and fetishism?
Section 2: Wobblies, their
antagonists and allies
Here are two more papers I
found when reading some excellent Marxist analyses of:
-
The sit-down
strikes of 1936: Murray
and Schwartz 2015
-
Strike waves in
the US and Canada: 1930-present: Eidlin 2015
As a first blush toward an agenda for discussing Randolph: this might be good for week 1
If interested in my thoughts on race/class/gender: Hogan 2001
For discussing Honey:
this might help for week 1;
You might also want to look at the 1998 syllabus (referenced in Honey link)
For discussing Gabin
You might also want to look at some of the stuff on feminist
theory in my SOC 602 and SOC 402 websites (and
syllabi on websites).
For discussing Quigley
Harry’s Last Class Power
Point
More Cool Stuff
Mechanisms,
Processes and other ways of thinking about class conflict, social movements,
and political violence
- Post-toasties on
Tilly, Tarrow, and McAdam
- Randall
Collins on the new Tilly
- Taylor on Traugott:
repertoires and cycles
- Chuck’s political violence bib
- Hogan
2015 (a work in progress: there are other versions)
- Hogan 2016 (under review) Appendix 2