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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2026
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HIST 531 001 (CRN: 16172)
LABOR AND CAPITAL
Long Title: LABOR AND CAPITAL
Department: History
Instructor: Caldwell, Carl
Meeting: 1:00PM - 3:30PM T (24-AUG-2026 - 4-DEC-2026)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 4
Enrollment data as of: 26-APR-2026 3:49PM
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
Description: 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.