Questioning Capitalism Reading Schedule (tentative) June 20 th
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Questioning Capitalism Reading Schedule (tentative) June 20th (4 readings, 55pp) Angela Y. Davis, “From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System,” Angela Y. Davis Reader (New York: Blackwell Publishing, 1998), 74 – 95. Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery Preface and Chap 1: The Origin of Negro Slavery (3 – 29) Chap 7: The Development of British Capitalism, 1783 – 1833 (126 – 134).
“Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association” (1836). Available online at http://library.uml.edu/clh/all/doc01.htm Thomas Dublin, “Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: 'The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Have Us',” Labor History 16 (1976), pp. 99-116. (Online version available at: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/dublin.html Clara Zetkin, “Social-Democracy and Women’s Suffrage,” (1906) (22pp) http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1906/xx/womansuffrage.htm Angela Y. Davis, “Foreword,” in Selected Writings of Clara Zetkin (9 – 16). Clara Zetkin, Selected Writings of Clara Zetkin “Women’s Work and the Trade Unions,” (51 – 59) “What the Women Owe to Karl Marx,” (93 – 97) “To the Socialist Women of All Countries,” (114 – 116)
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States Chapter 11: “Robber Barons and Rebels,” (253 – 296) Chapter 12: “The Empire and the People,” (297 – 320) Chapter 13: “The Socialist Challenge,” (321 – 358)
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. Chapter 2: “From Household Manufacturers to Wage Work,” (20 – 44) Chapter 7: “Protective Labor Legislation,” (180 – 214) July 25th (2 readings, 50pp) Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983). Chapter 7: “The Political Crisis of Social History: Class Struggle as Subject and Object,” 179 – 212. Chapter 9: “Yeomen Farmers in a Slaveholders’ Democracy,” 249 – 266. August 1st Dorothy Day, “Distributism vs. Capitalism,” The Catholic Worker, October 1954, 1-6. http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=175 Nicos Poulantzas, “The Problem of the Capitalist State,” New Left Review (1969) PDF: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/SOC621/ProblemOfTheCapitalistState.pdf Sean Wilentz, “Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920,” International Labor and Working Class History Vol. 26 (1984), pp. 1-24. August 8th (7 readings, 49 pp) Malcolm X, February 1965: The Final Speeches, “The Oppressed Masses of the World Cry Out for Action Against the Common Oppressor,” 46 – 64. Huey Newton, The Huey Newton Reader. “The Founding of the Black Panther Party,” 49 – 52 “On the Peace Movement: August 15th, 1969,” 150 – 153. “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements: August 15th, 1970,” 157 – 159. “Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: June 5th, 1971, “ 227 – 233. “Uniting Against a Common Enemy: October 23rd, 1971,” 234 – 240. “On Pan-Africanism or Communism: December 1st, 1972,” 248 – 255.
Angela Y. Davis and Fania Davis, “Slaying the Dream: The Black Family and the Crisis of Capitalism,” Women, Culture, and Politics (New York: Vintage, 1990), 73 – 90. August 15th ( J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism : A Feminist Critique of Capitalist Economy Introduction: “A Politics of Economic Possibility,” xix – xxxvi Chapter 1: “Affects and Emotions For a Postcapitalist Politics,” 1 – 21. Chapter 2: “Reluctant Subjects: Subjection and Becoming,” 23 – 51.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow Stephen Hartnett, “Prison Labor, Slavery, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective,” on History is a Weapon: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/hisprislacap.html
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