History 301

European Working-Class History since 1750

Professor Diane P. Koenker
Spring 2000

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Course syllabus

Course bibliography

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First essay assignment due February 21.
Research Paper FAQ

The research papers are graded, and you may pick them up Friday afternoon between 1 and 2 pm. Or you can email me to arrange another time after May 14.

Second essay assignment due April 10. (Note due date change.)

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January 21 lecture outline: Artisans
January 24 discussion questions: Thompson's "Moral Economy of the English Crowd"
January 26 lecture outline: The Problem of the Industrial Revolution
January 28 lecture outline: Proletarianization
January 31 lecture outline: The Standard of Living Debate
February 2 discussion questions: The Problem of the Industrial Revolution
February 4 lecture outline: Working-Class and Proletarian Families
February 7 discussion questions: Class and Class Theory
February 9 lecture outline: Early Socialism
February 11 lecture outline: Chartism
February 14 lecture outline: 1848 and the Paris Workers
February 16 and 18 discussion questions: Class
February 21 lecture outline: Politics and Society in the Second French Empire
February 23 and 25 discussion questions: Germinal
February 28 lecture outline: Labor Movement Part I
March 1 lecture outline: German Trade Unions and the SPD
March 3 lecture outline: Social Democracy and Russian Workers
March 8 lecture outline: Women and Gender in Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century

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SPRING BREAK

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March 20 discussion questions: Worker Autobiographies
March 22 lecture outline: Workers and Working-Class Culture ca. 1900
March 24 discussion questions: Class in the Classic Slum: "Them" and "Us"
March 27 lecture outline: Anarchism and Syndicalism
March 29 lecture outline: Class Formation in Russia 1905-1917
March 31 lecture outline: Russian Revolutions of 1917
April 3 lecture outline: Labor Insurgency in Europe 1917-1920
April 5 discussion questions: Russian Revolutionary Exceptionalism
April 7 lecture outline: European Labor in the 1920s
April 10 lecture outline: Women in the Workforce between the Wars
April 12-14 lecture outline: Popular Culture and Mass Culture 1920-1940
April 17-19 lecture outline: Workers in the Soviet Union, 1917-1945
April 21 lecture outline: Nazi Germany and German Workers
April 24 discussion questions: Workers in Nazi Germany and the USSR Compared
April 26 lecture outline: Western European Workers between the Wars
April 28 lecture outline: The Cold War and European Workers
May 1 lecture outline: Immigration and the Postwar Working Class

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