Jeffrey M. Haydu, Professor

Ph.D. - UC Berkeley, 1984

Areas of Specialization: social movements; comparative-historical methods; class relations; food

Email Address: jhaydu@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-5310
Office location: 496 Social Science Building

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Jeff Haydu received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He studies U.S. labor, employers, and food-related protest movements in historical and comparative perspective. Jeff is the author of Between Craft and Class (UC Press, 1988), Making American Industry Safe for Democracy (Illinois, 1997), and Citizen Employers (Cornell, 2008). His undergraduate courses include social movements, American society, and the sociology of food.

Classes to be taught in 2009/10:


Fall 2009

SOCI 137- Sociology of Food

SOCG 252- Research Practicum

Winter 2010

SOCI 10 - American Society: Social Sturcture & Culture in the U.S.
SOCA 106 - Comparative and Historical Methods

Selected Publications:

*Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916 (Cornell University Press, 2008) Additional information is available from the publisher.

* "Business Citizenship at Work: Cultural Transposition and Class Formation in Cincinnati, 1870-1910." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 107, no. 6 (2002)

*"Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, c. 1886-1904." In The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production, Rick Baldoz et al., eds. (Temple University Press, 2001)

*Two Logics of Class Formation? Collective Identities Among Proprietary Employers, 1880-1900."Politics & Society, vol. 27, no. 4 (1999)

*"Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century." Social Problems, vol. 46, no. 3 (1999)

*"Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 104, no. 2 (1998)

* Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. Additional information is available from the publisher.

*Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922.