actual notes ed baptist

Who was max weber

HE argued that Calvinist Protestantism was the reason for capitalism.

Must: HOLY WORK AS A PATH TO SALVATION led to industrial labor

Fernand Braudel

Capitalism is a latecomer, and markets weren’t reallya thing till the 1800s, even though some people acted as capitalists previoiusly.

Pomeranz

he has the “ghost acres” argument, which describes Europe industrialized first because of land they took from other continents and slavery, not cultural superiority.

Nicholas Biddle

Ran the 2nd Bank of US, andrew jackson hated him. Biddel called in loans and caused the Panic of 1837, which split democrat and whig economic opinion

Richard White

Documented the corruption of the Transcontinental Railroad, bribery, stock manipulation, government subsidies.

A. Philip Randolph

Head of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened FDR with a march on washington in 1941, which led to him issue Executive order 8802.

William Lloyd Garrison

Published ‘The Liberator’, the leading abolitionist newspaper, biggest antislavery voice of pre civil war. With 1836 Boston Abolition Riot, and Commonwealth v Aves

Tom Watson

After Populists lost, he became fascist and racist and antisemitic, he helped develop the lynching environment.

Separate Spheres Ideology

Men and women separate spheres ideology, man is strong, woman is beautiful.

Producerism

producers should get the fruits of all labor

The Mudsill Theory

The belief that a society's social order must have a lower class to serve the upper class, justifying exploitation as necessary for economic progress.

Moral Economy

the subsistence culture of New England, small farms, patriarchial households, equity > acculumuation. A world where people prioritized modest comfort and community stability over profit maximization.

Stockholder Democracy

Americans participate in capitalism gains, because half of US households own stock. (now critiqued because ownership is not evenly distributed)

homestead strike

1892 - carnegie steel

federal government & pinkerton army stepped in and ended it

Pullman Strike

1894 - a nationwide railroad strike that severely disrupted rail traffic in the United States, initiated by workers at the Pullman Company protesting wage cuts and high rents in company-owned housing.

Eugene Debs involved

federal government stepped in and ended it

Haymarket Riot

1885 - in haypmarket square chicago throwing bombs at police

Great Strike 1877

Railroad strike led to Knights of Labor

Occupy Wall Street

2011 protest about wealth inequlaity, we are the 99%

Wagner Act

guaranteed private sector workers the right to unionize and collectively bargain, and created the National Labor Relations Board to enforce it. It was the legal foundation of the postwar labor movement

Without this, the Treaty of Detroit doesnt happen

Morrill Act

1862 - federal land grants to states to fund public universities

Rostow Stages of Growth

traditional society, preconditions for take off(infrastructure and investment), take-off(industrilaization), drive to maturity(diversifying), age pf high mass consumption