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Carl Caldwell
Instructor listed on Rice's public Course Schedule.
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3.3
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Courses
2
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Courses taught
HIST 373
19th C Soc/Political Thought
Social and political thinkers of the 19th century confronted revolutionary change in both politics and society: the demand for democracy as well as the challenges associated with industrial capitalism. Course combines lectures with discussion of original sources, including Smith, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Wollstonecraft, and Weber.
HIST 531
Labor And Capital
This course examines the historical relationship between labor and capital. Topics may include: who labors, what counts as labor, the automation of labor, the relationship between labor and economic systems, pre-industrial labor, industrialization, consumerism, the concept of productivity, race, gender, class, and ableism. The course will also explore the ways laborers make citizenship claims, the local and international dimensions of labor activism, the ways states frame laborers as symbols of patriotism or the antithesis of state development, and the ways the state seeks to manipulate laborers into productive units of society.