Labor

Research interests: Industrial revolutions; commodity chains; labor relations; transfer of value; and cyclical shifts from a global economic and labor history perspective. 

Cyrus Veeser is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. His research interests include modernization in colonies and LDCs, 1870-1930; U.S. business and economic history, 1870-1945; Caribbean and Latin American history, 1870-1945; and forced...

Shubhankita Ojha is WIGH fellow at Harvard University (2016-18) and a 2016-2017 Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University. She has received her PhD from Department of History, University of Delhi in 2016. Her research interests include...

Research Interests: 19th-century U.S. history, colonialism, global labor history, Pacific history

Professor Beckert's research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. His...