Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions, 1870-1929 (Manuscript Complete).
Making Modern Inequality: Class, Patriarchy, and Racial Empire in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1930 (Manuscript to be delivered 2023).
State Capitalism: How Big Government Defines the Modern Economy (Manuscript to be delivered 2025).
Book Projects
Articles
Rudi Batzell, “Free Labour, Capitalism, and the Anti-slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s” Past & Present vol. 255. (November, 2014): 143-186.
Rudi Batzell, “The Labor of Social Reproduction: Household Work and Gendered Power in the History of Capitalism, 1870-1930” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15(2016): 310-330.
Rudi Batzell and Lindsey Dayton, “United Academic Workers: Graduate Workers Organize with the United Auto Workers” International Labor and Working-Class History 91 (Spring 2017): 164-173.
Rudi Batzell and Sarah Coffman, “Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis: Gender, Reproduction, and Capitalism in Chicago, 1870-1911” Gender & History 32:2 (October, 2020): 581-601.
Book Chapters, Reviews, and Introductions
Book Chapter
Karen Barkey and Rudi Batzell, “Critical Social Structures of the Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburgs” in Empires in Contention: Sociology, History, and Cultural Differences, eds. P. F. Bang and C. A. Bayly (London: MacMillan, 2011): 227-262.
Special Issue Introductions
Rudi Batzell with Sven Beckert, Andrew Gordon, and Gabriel Winant, “Introduction: The Global E. P. Thompson” International Review of Social History 61:1 (April, 2016): 1-9.
'' '' “E. P. Thompson, Politics, and History: Writing Social History Fifty Years after The Making of the English Working Class” Journal of Social History 48:4 (Summer 2015):753-758.
Reviews
Rudi Batzell, “Guns Made the State, and the State Made Guns” Public Books review of Priya Satia, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (March 6, 2019): https://www.publicbooks.org/guns-made-the-state-and-the-state-made-guns/
Review of Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States by Andrew Kolin” The Journal of Economic History 78(4) (December, 2018): 1259-1261.
Rudi Batzell, “Race, Gender and the State: Changing Social and Business Networks of Financial Elites in the Progressive Era” [review of Susi J. Pak, Gentlemen Bankers (Harvard, 2013)] The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14:1 (January, 2015): 113-115.
Digital Projects
“Power, Distinction, Display: Excavating Elites” Lake Forest College Digital Chicago Grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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