Teaching American History

The Education Cooperative (TEC)

“Change and Reform in American Life:

The Industrial Revolution”

DATES for Primary Source Workshop:  Either October 3 and 10, 2012 OR October 17 and 24, 2012

Held at the Lab at The Education Cooperative (TEC), 1112 High Street, Dedham

Cohort Class Dates:      October 3, 2012  – May 22, 2013

Location:                       Westwood High School

Instructors:            

•  Ed O’Donnell, Holy Cross College
•  James Green, UMASS Boston
•  Pat Reeve, Suffolk University
•  Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
• Bruce Watson, Independent Scholar

CLASS READING

November 14, 2012:            Introduction: The Artisan’s World and the  Market Revolution

(O’Donnell)

            READING: (Books)     

• Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic, Chap. 1
• David Brody, “Time and Work in Early American Industrialism”

November 28, 2012:            The Liberty Rhetoric of Antebellum Women Workers (Reeve)

READING:

• Thomas Dublin, “Women, Work, and Protests in the Early Lowell Mills: ‘The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us,’” Labor History (
• Anne F. Mattina, "'Corporation Tools and Time-Serving Slaves': Class and Gender in the Rhetoric of Antebellum Labor Reform," Howard Journal of Communications 7 (1996): 151-168.
• Lowell Mill Girls’ Declarations (Primary sources)

December 12, 2012:            “What was Distinctive about the Early Industrial Revolution in America? (Smith)

READING:

• Merritt Roe Smith, “1875: Colonel William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody Proclaims the Winchester Rifle ‘The Boss’ for ‘General Hunting, or Indian Fighting’,” in Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds., A New Literary History of America
• Merritt Roe Smith, “Eli Whitney and the American System of Manufacturing,” in Carroll W. Pursell, ed., Technology in America

January 9, 2013:                        The Rise of Industrial America   (O’Donnell)

READING:

• Harold Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business

January 23, 2013:            Critics of Industrialism: Utopians, Intellectuals, and Reformers (O’Donnell)

READING:

• Henry George, Progress and Poverty (excerpt)
• Edward T. O’Donnell, Talisman of a Lost Hope (excerpt)

February 6, 2013:              The Haymarket Tragedy: Critical Moment in the Gilded Age, 1886-1887  (Green)           

READING:

• James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

February 27, 2013:            Black Workers and Jim Crow (Reeve)

READING: 

        •    Brian Kelley, “Industrial Sentinels Confront the ‘Rabid Faction’: Black Elites, Black Workers, and the Labor Question in the Jim Crow South,” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation. ed. Eric Arnesen (2007), 94-121.

        •    Ernest Obadele-Starks, “Black Labor, the Black Middle Class, and Organized Protest along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1883-1945,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 103, No. 1 (Jul., 1999): 52-65.

•  Digging for Answers: A Black Miner Ponders Racism, History Matters. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5311/     
• “We Are Literally Slaves”: An Early Twentieth-Century Black Nanny Sets the Record Straight, History Matters. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/80/·         

• “Still Livin’ Under the Bonds of Slavery”: Minnie Whitney Describes Sharecropping at the Turn-of-the-Century, History Matters. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/82/

March 13, 2013:                        Out Of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America (Reeve)

READING:

• Thomas Bell, Out Of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America  (See also the reading questions.)

March 27, 2013:                        The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Progressive Labor Reform (O’Donnell)

                  READING:

• David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

April 10, 2013:                        Bread and Roses: An American Tapestry,  Lawrence, 1912  (Watson)

READING:

• Bruce Watson, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

 April 24, 2013:                        “Everything was Movement”: Currents of Social Protest at the High Tide of the Progressive Era, 1912-1913 (Green)           

READING:

• “Haymarket Scrapbook” (primary sources)
• Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940, pp. 161-218
• Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom, pp. 138-161
• Shelton Stromquist, “Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism,” edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie (eds.), Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience
• Samuel Gompers, “ Russianized West Virginia”
• Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery, pp. 57-67

May 8, 2013:                        Controlling Workers: Scientific Management and Welfare Capitalism (Reeve)

• Negotiated Loyalty: Welfare Capitalism and the Shoeworkers of Endicott Johnson, 1920-1940,” Gerald Zahavi, Journal of American History Vol. 70, No. 3 (Dec., 1983): 602-620.         
•  “Taylorism versus Welfare Work in American Industry: H. L. Gantt and the Bancrofts,” Daniel Nelson and Stuart Campbell, The Business History Review Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring, 1972): 1-16.          
•  Frederick W. Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911,” Modern History Source Book.
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html      
• Frederick W. Taylor, “The Story of Schmidt” (1910)        

May 22, 2013:                        SNOW DATE

Graduate Course 2

(Summer Institute)                                    Topic: TBA

Monday July 15– Friday July 19, 2013                                     Location: TBA

8:30 AM – 3:30 PM                                                                  Instructor: TBA