HIST 8 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE U.S., 1877 TO THE PRESENT

3 Units 3 hours lecture
Transfers: CSU, UC
Surveys the American social and economic experience from Reconstruction to the present. Featured topics include the emergence of big business; labor and unionization; focus shifts from agriculture to manufacturing to services; government’s role in regulating industry and taming business cycles; immigration and internal migrations; urbanization; gender roles and family structure; technological change; living conditions; the distribution of wealth; African American legal rights and economic realities; effects on Native Americans of U.S. expansion and federal oversight; economic globalization; overseas military actions, and new challenges to security and liberty.
Repeatability NR