Sep 03 2008

patrickhcc

Reading for Fall 2008

Posted at 7:39 pm under US Business and Labor History




This semester, I’ll be reading the following:

From Marx, Capital Vol 1

6.  “The Sale & Purchase of Labor Power”

7.  “The Labor Process and the Valorization Process”

10. “The Working Day”

14. “The Division of Labour and Manufacture”

15. “Machinery and Large Scale Industry”

28. “Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated…”

33. “The Modern Theory of Colonization”

Chandler. Strategy and Structure

And more toward the music and entertainment industry in the United States:

Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Braverman, Henry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974/1998.

Gomery, Douglas. The Hollywood Studio System: A History. London: BFI Publishing, 2005.

Hilmes, Michele, ed. NBC: America’s Network. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.

Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.

Knight, Arthur. The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Movies. New York: MacMillan, 1957.

Millard, Andre. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Smith, Jeff. The Sounds of Commerce. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002.

Kahn, Ashley. The House That Trane Built:  The Story of Impulse Records

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