J. Pablo Silva  
Fall Semester 2005
History 327. Labor in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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Syllabus

Week 2: September 5
Week 3: September 12
Week 4: September 19
Week 5: September 26
Week 6: October 3
Week 7: October 10
Week 8: October 24
Week 9: October 31
Week 10: November 7
Week 11: November 14
Week 12: November 21
Week 13: November 28
Week 14: December 5

Required Texts

Assignments

Research Paper

Grading

 

 

Section 1. Common Readings (weeks 1-7)
Thursday, 25 August
Why look at labor?
  The Sweat of Their Brow, pp. 3-36.
   
Tuesday, 30 August
Does the Colonial History of Work Matter?
  The Sweat of Their Brow, pp. 37-105.
   
Thursday, 1 September
Is Latin America Different?
  The Sweat of Their Brow, pp. 106-186.

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Tuesday, 6 September
Why do workers radicalize?
  Weavers, pp. 3-104.
   
Thursday, 8 September
Why do workers radicalize?
  Weavers, pp. 105-155.

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Week 3
Tuesday, 13 September
Why do workers radicalize?
  Weavers, pp. 159-256.
   
Thursday, 15 September
What role do labor organizations play?
  Resistance, pp. 1-40 .
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Week 4  
Tuesday, 20 September
What role do labor organizations play?
  Resistance, pp. 43-157.
   
Thursday, 22 September
What is the role of ideology?
 

Joel Wolfe, "Anarchist Ideology."
John French, "Practice and Ideology."

Wolfe, "Response."

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Week 5  
Tuesday, 27 September
Does Class Matter?
  The Idea, pp. 1-95.
   
Thursday, 29 September
How does class matter?
 

The Idea, pp. 96-151.

   
Friday, 30 September
Paper Topics are Due.

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Week 6  
Tuesday, 4 October
How does class matter?
  The Idea, pp. 152-242.
   
Thursday, 6 October
Does gender matter?
  Dulcinea, pp. xi-35.
   

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Week 7  
Tuesday, 11 October
How does gender matter?
 
Dulcinea, pp. 39-147.
   
Thursday, 13 October
Why does gender matter?
  Dulcinea, pp. 148-237.

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Section 2. Research Projects (weeks 8-14)
Week 8  
Tuesday, 25 October
No Class Discussion this Week.
 

We will meet Tuesday to assign presentation dates. Otherwise, work on your Primary Source Analysis.

   
Friday, 27 October

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Spring Break, 13 March to 28 March
Week 9  
Tuesday, 1 November
  Four of you will present.
   
Thursday, 3 November
  The other four will present.

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Week 10  
Tuesday, 8 November
  Two of you.
Thursday, 10 November
  Three of you.

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Week 11  
Tuesday, 15 November
  The last three.
   
Thursday, 17 November
  Four of you.

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Week 12  
Tuesday, 22 November
  Four of you.
Thursday, 24 November
 

Thanksgiving. NO CLASS.

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Week 13  
Tuesday, 29 November
Draft Review
  Two of you. Before drafting your paper read pp. 185-221, 263-282 of The Craft of Research.
   
Thursday, 1 December
Draft Review
  Two more. Before drafting your paper read pp. 185-221, 263-282 of The Craft of Research.

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Week 14  
Tuesday, 6 December
Draft Review
  Another two . Before drafting your paper read pp. 185-221, 263-282 of The Craft of Research.
   
Thursday, 8 December
Draft Review
  The last two. Before drafting your paper read pp. 185-221, 263-282 of The Craft of Research.
Monday, 12 Dember
Final Draft Due Date

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