HIST 401 Labor/Industrialization in America
This course explains the history of industrialization in America and the effects and responses of this change on workers. Students will be introduced to the American working class experience stretching from the late eighteenth century through the early years of the twentieth century. Course topics include: the early development of factory work, gender and work, western expansion, Reconstruction and the New South, the rise of Northern industrialists, immigration and labor, unionization and strikes, labor radicalism, and Progressive Era reforms. This course will also emphasize local, historical labor issues relevant to the Scranton region as well as digital history methods.