On Monday 17 February 2025 Joel Suarez (Harvard University) will be the sixth speaker for our 2024-2025 Seminar Series on Modern North American History, organized in cooperation with the Sciences Po Center for History (CHSP) in Paris.
Lecture title: Informalizing US Immigration History: De-agrarianization, Deindustrialization, and the Global Labor History of the Volcker Shock
Lecturer: Joel Suarez
Date: Monday 17 February 2025 from 17:00 to 18:30 CET
Location: Online
Please register here before Friday 14 February.
Joel Suarez is a historian of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century United States with interests in labor history, political economy, and the social history of ideas. He is currently completing his first book titled The Labor of Liberty: Work and the Problem of Freedom in American History. His writing can be found in scholarly and popular publications including Critical Historical Studies, New Labor Forum, Dissent, Jacobin, and n+1.
This seminar recasts the history of late twentieth century US immigration history by integrating it to the global history of informalization. Many US histories of post-1965 immigration are often framed narrowly through the lens of national partisan politics, legal history, public policy history, or histories of racial formation and resistance. This seminar, by contrast, focuses on the global economic, intellectual, and social history of the production of surplus populations in the late twentieth century. It does this by historicizing international debt crises, de-agrarianization, and de-industrialization, thus retelling the story of undocumented labor in the US in the three distinctive in registers of political economy, conceptual history, and the social history of ideas.
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