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economic history link roundup, 1/5/12, and a small request
Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects,Art of Richard Correll retrieved fromhttp://depts.washington.edu/labpics/repository/v/communism/correll/Check out this excellent labor history...
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law, labor, and capitalism syllabus
American shoemakers in the late-18th century.Image source: http://griid.org/2011/03/01/march-1-creation-of-the-first-union-with-a-closed-shop-agreement-in-the-u-s/ Here is a link to the "Law, Labor,...
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economic history link roundup, 1/9/12
A cartoon, yes, but still -- too simplistic?Source http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchild.htm Remembering Katrina Honeymoon, late historian of women and children's labor in Industrial England....
View Articleland of promise: an economic history of the united states, by michael lind
That's his newest book, due out in April, 2012. Lind asserts that contemporary debates over American economic policy have their roots in early 19th century debates over how internal improvements and...
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jeremy adelman on hirschman
Hirschman's "Rival Views" is a fascinating look at the origins of moral and political critiques of capitalismThe following excerpt is from a "flavor essay", so to speak, of a forthcoming biography (by...
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reconsidering rothenberg's from market places to a market economy, 20 years...
In this first installment of a series on the transition to capitalism in early America I am going to look back at one of the most influential books on the market revolution, Winifred Rothenberg's From...
View Articlewhere weber and kafka intersect: interesting new research
A (relatively) new article out of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (February 2011) by Douglas Litowitz titled "Max Weber and Franz Kafka: A Shared Vision of Modern Law" studies the impact of Weberian...
View Articlelegal history teaching materials
Someone who commented on my previous post asked for the reading list for the course I'm teaching on law, labor, and capitalism. I linked to it back in January -- you can find the post in which I linked...
View Article39 stripes
A slave code from Alabama (1852) reads:#993. The patrol has power to punish slaves found under the circumstances recited in the preceding section, by stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine. (The "patrol"...
View Articlemaster and servant, NOT principal and agent
The way that labor economists normally think about employment relationships is in terms of "Principal-Agent Models". The term "Principal-Agent" is meant to classify any set of models in which the...
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learn american economic history online this summer
This summer, learn why they are the backbone of American prosperity.For regular readers of the blog, you might be interested to know that I am teaching an online course this summer through the UMass...
View Articlefun legal quote of the day: sailors be damned!
Justice Waite rules in Matthews v. Terry, 10 Conn. 455 (1835):There is no doubt but that, for just cause, a parent may reasonably correct his child, a master his apprentice, and a schoolmaster his...
View Articleschumpeter on the transition to capitalism
He wisely states in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy:Economically all this [i.e. the transition] meant for the bourgeoisie the breaking of so many fetters and the removal of so many barriers....
View Articlemaking path dependence history
Words to think about:But there is another reason why the historians of the past should be taken seriously. A good knowledge of historiography—and the same could probably be said of the history of...
View Articletsk, tsk, alex tabarrok... tsk, tsk
In his laughable response to Crooked Timber bloggers' central claim that libertarians don't care an ounce for workplace democracy, Tabarrok makes the following comment:If you think that the freedom to...
View Articlefurther thoughts on workplace democracy: importance of law
While it has been immensely fruitful to have scholars from political science, economics, and philosophy contribute to the debate on workplace democracy, one field has been surprisingly absent from that...
View Articlegender roles and labor: path dependence
Alberto Alesina, Paolo Giulliano, and Nathan Nunn have a recent paper on the origins of gender roles.They test the hypothesis that the cross-country variation in the cultural presence of gender norms...
View Articlegender roles: other explanations?
In the previous post, I mentioned recent research highlighting how economic historians think about gender roles and labor. Regardless of any problems that may exist with their econometric technique,...
View Articlecolumbus day
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange boat. When Columbus and his sailors came...
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