Workshops & Conferences Archive

UPCOMING: Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future
  1. May 15, 2020 - 12:00am
  2. May 16, 2020 - 12:00am
Grace Pena Delgado, History, UC Santa Cruz, "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking."
  1. February 21, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Ronny Regev, History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar U.S."
  1. February 14, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Jennifer Burns, History, Stanford University, "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman"
  1. February 7, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Andrew Hartman, History, Illinois State University, "Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War."
  1. January 24, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
David Stein, African-American Studies, UCLA, "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979."
  1. November 22, 2019 - 1:00pm
Eric Rauchway, History, UC Davis. "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941"
  1. November 8, 2019 - 1:00pm
Bernhard Reiger, History, University of Leiden, "Making Society Work Again: Workfare in Transatlantic Context Since the 1960s"
  1. October 25, 2019 - 1:00pm
October 11: Colin Gordon, History, University of Iowa. “Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs.”
  1. October 11, 2019 - 1:00pm
Kathryn Sklar, Berkeley, CA. "The Social Origins of the Minimum Wage"
  1. May 24, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Doug Genens, History, UCSB. “From Farm to Tourist Trap: Tourism as a Rural Development Strategy.”
  1. May 17, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
April Haynes, History, University of Wisconsin, "Tender Traffic: Intimate Labor Movements, 1790-1860"
  1. May 10, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
James Sparrow, History, University of Chicago. "Our River of Power Flowed toward War": David Lilienthal, the TVA, and the Evisceration of the Concept of Public Utility in the American Century.
  1. May 3, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Lily Geismer, History, Claremont McKenna, "'The Perfect Model for the 1990s': Community Development Banking, Market-Based Solutions, and Democratic Neoliberalism."
  1. April 12, 2019 - 1:00pm
  2. April 12, 2019 - 3:00am
Kashia Arnold Speaks on "U.S. Silk Imports during World War I: Contextualizing U.S.-Japanese Relations, Munitions Production, and Wartime Substitution"
  1. March 1, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Priti Ramamurthy Speaks on "Agarian Questions of Labor in Urban India."
  1. February 1, 2019 - 1:00pm
Leon Fink Speaks on Labor and Free Trade in the 'Great Compression'
  1. December 7, 2018 - 1:00pm
Samir Sonti, UNITE-HERE Local 11. "From the Academy to the Unions: Knowing Capital in Order to Bargain With It"
  1. November 16, 2018 - 1:00am to 3:00am
Jessica Burch, School of Business, University of Utah, "The Pyramid Problem: Regulating Direct Sales at the Edges of Labor and Consumption, 1972-1982."
  1. November 1, 2018 - 8:00pm
Jonathan Levy, History, University of Chicago. "Instability and Inequality: American Capitalism after the Volcker Shock of 1980"
  1. October 19, 2018 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm