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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Aug 07, 2026
 
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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HIST 1656 - AMERICAN WORKERS 20TH CENTURY


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the experiences of American workers during the second Industrial Revolution of the early Twentieth Century, the emergence of a government-sponsored national system of labor relations in the 1930s and 1940s, the structural changes in the economy and labor force since 1950, and the subsequent breakdown of the new deal formula for class relations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Urban Studies


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