Economics 703 Introduction to Economic History Prof. Gerald Friedman Fall 2016

Required readings are indicated with a star.

There are thirteen major units in five sections. Students should prepare 3-5 page review papers discussing the readings for at least one unit within each section; papers should be submitted (by email attachment) to me before class on Wednesdays.

Students should also prepare a 5-8 page review on one of the following comparisons:

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History vs. Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery vs. Fogel and Engerman, Time on the Cross

Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive vs. Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade vs. Gerald Friedman, Reigniting the Labor Movement

Jefferson Cowie, The Great Exception vs. David Kotz, The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism vs. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia

Section I 1.Introduction *Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The Communist Manifesto, Part I". *Marx and Engels, "Eleven Theses on Feuerbach". *Paul David, "CLIO and the Economics of QWERTY," American Economic Review 75:2 (May 1985), 332-337. *Joan Scott, "On Language, Gender, and Working Class History" International Labor and Working Class History 31 (Spring 1987). (Also available in Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988).) *David Gordon, Richard Edwards, Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers, ch. 1-2. *Fred Block, “The Ruling Class Does Not Rule,” in Socialist Revolution (May-June 1977). (Also in Block, Revising State Theory (Philadelphia, 1987).) *Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876- 1914. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998. Ch. 7. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. London: Routledge, 2001. Clark Kerr et al. Industrialism and Industrial Man. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1962. Donald McCloskey, "Does the Past Have a Useful Economics?," Journal of Economic Literature (1976), 434-61. 1

David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London, 1991). Edward P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class. New York, Random House, 1963. Preface.

2.Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism? *Paul Sweezy and Maurice Dobb in Sweezy, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism. *Robert Brenner, “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development,” Past and Present (PP) 70 (1976) 30-75. *Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York, 2014), chs. 2-3. *Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time Douglas North and Robert Thomas, The Making of the Western World, pt.II. Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. Winifred Rothenberg, From Marketplace to Market Economy Joan Scott and Louise Tilly, Women, Work, and Family. New York, Holt, 1978.

3.Transition to Capitalism: Crisis of the 17th century *Eric Hobsbawm and H.R. Trevor-Roper in Trevor Aston (ed.), Crisis in Europe. *Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, chs. 1-2. *Michael Merrill, “‘Cash is Good to Eat’,” Radical History Review (1977). Charles Tilly, The Contentious French ch.3,5,6. Charles Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe Perry Anderson, The Lineages of the Absolutist State

Section II 4.The Industrial Revolution in Britain *Steve Marglin, “What Do Bosses Do?,” Review of Radical Political Economy 6 (Summer, 1974) 60-112. *E.P. Thompson, "Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," Past and Present 38 (1967), 56-93. *Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York, 2014), chs. 5-7. Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery. F. Mandels, "Proto-Industrialization," Journal of Economic History (March 1972), 246-61.

5.Proletarianization and Industrialization *William Lazonick, "Karl Marx and Enclosures in England," in RRPE 6 (Summer, 1974) 1-59. *Ken Sokoloff and Claudia Goldin, "Women, Children, and Industrialization," Journal of Economic History 42 (1982), 741-774. *Jane Humphries, "Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Journal of Economic History 50 (March 1990), 17-42. Robert Allen, “The Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of Eighteenth Century Enclosures,” Economic Journal (Dec. 1982) 937-53.

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6.The Spread of Capitalist Industrialization *A. Gerschenkron Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, pp. 5-51. *Ken Sokoloff, “Was the Shift from the Artisanal Shop Associated with Gains in Efficiency?, Explorations in Economic History 21 (October 1984), 351-82. *Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, “Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization,” Past and Present 108 (August 1985), 133-76. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society. New York, Norton, 1997. Part 3. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. E. L. Jones, Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. N.F.R. Crafts, "European Gross National Products," Explorations in Economic History (1983), 387-401.Sla Angus Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development Raphael Samuel, “Workshop of the World: Steampower and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain,” History Workshop 3 (Spring 1977), 6-72.

Section III 7.New World Slavery *Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (New York, 2005). ______, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (New York, 2012). Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution. Paul David, et al., Reckoning with Slavery. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford, 2006).

8.New World Emancipation *James Illingworth, “Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War,” International Socialist Review, July-August 2011 at: http://www.isreview.org/issues/78/feat-civilwarslavery.shtml *Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, ch. 3. *Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (New Haven, 2016), ch. 3. *Drescher, Econocide: British Slavery in the Age of Abolition (Pittsburgh, 1977). Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Anti-Slavery and Social Reform (Cambridge, 2005). Seymour Drescher: Abolition: A History of Slavery and Anti-Slavery (Cambridge, 2009). W.E.B. Dubois, Black Reconstruction Gerald Friedman, “The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880-1953,” Journal of Economic History (June 2000). Gerald Jaynes, Branches Without Roots, chs. 3-5, 13-15. Jonathan Wiener, Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. William Cohen, At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Qeust for Racial 3

Control, 1861-1915 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1991). Jay Mandle, The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation After the Civil War. Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Contract. Eric Foner, Reconstruction

Section IV 9.Fin-de-siècle *Arno Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime : Europe to the Great War, chs. 2-3. *Lenin, “Imperialism as the Final Stage of Capitalism” Margaret MacMillan, The War that Ended Peace: the Road to 1914. New York, Random House, 2013. Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution (New York, 2015). Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and social classes Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback, Mammon and the pursuit of empire: the political economy of British imperialism,1860-1912.

10.Socialism, Republicanism, and the Working Class Movement *Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements, chs. 2, 7. *Lenin, What is to be Done? *Robert Michels, Political Parties, preface and part 6. David Montgomery, Citizen Worker *Michael Shalev, "The Social-Democratic Model and Beyond," Comparative Social Research 6 (1983), 315-351. *Gerald Friedman, Reigniting the Labor Movement. London, Routledge, 2007. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415770712/

11.American Exceptionalism? *Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements. *Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement," International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 1984), 1-37. *Gerald Friedman, “Success and Failure in Third Party Politics: The Knights of Labor and the Union Labor Coalition in Massachusetts, 1884-88” International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 2002). *Jefferson Cowie, The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Princeton, 2016). Robin Archer, Why is there No Labor Party in the United States. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union Selig Perlman, Theory of the Labor Movement. Werner Sombart, Why is there No Socialism in the United States? Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. David Witwer, Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009 4

Liz Cohn, Making a New Deal Victoria Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion: Workers, Politics and Organization in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 Duncan Gallie, Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain Eric Hobsbawm Labouring Men Ira Katznelson and Ari Zolberg, eds., Working-Class Formations. Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Berkeley, 1971). Scott, Joan, Glass Workers of Carmaux E. Shorter and C. Tilly Strikes in France

Section V 12.The Great Depression *Peter Temin, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression (New York, 1976) ______, Lessons from the Great Depression (Oxford, 1988). *Gerald Friedman, “The Crisis and the Economists: A Guide to the Perplexed,” Labor History Vol. 51, No. 3, August 2010, 345–362. ______, “Why Liberal Economists Dish Out Despair” https://www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/why-liberal-economists-dish-out- despair?p=ideas-papers/blog/why-liberal-economists-dish-out-despair Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol, “State Structures and the Possibilities for ‘Keynesian’ Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States,” pp. 107-68 in Peter Evans, et al., eds., Bringing the State Back In. Fred Block, Revising State Theory, ch. 1. Milton Friedman and Anne Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, ch. 7. John K. Galbraith, The Great Crash. Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 1929-1939.

13.Welfare States and decline? *Gosta Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism *Gerald Friedman, Reigniting the Labor Movement *Friedman, “Employers and their representatives: discretion, power, markets, and managers in the transformation of 21st century work” ms, August 2016. *Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union Jacob Hacker, Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (Oxford, 2008). ______and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: The Forgotten Source of our Prosperity (New York, 2016). Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: the New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York, Norton, 2013. David Kotz, The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism. Cambridge, MA., 2015. Bruce Western, Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies. Michael K. Brown, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State (Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1999). Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell 5

University Press, 1999. ______, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class New York, 2010. Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (Chicago, 2001). Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White (New York, 2005). Isaac Martin, The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008. T. H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship, and Social Development Przeworski, Adam and John Sprague, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010. Daniel Sidorick, Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2009. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers John Stephens, Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

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