Jeffrey M. Haydu, Professor & Vice Chair

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 2011/12:


Fall 2011

SOCI 196A - Honors Seminar

SOCG 252- Research Practicum

Winter 2012
SOCI 106 - Comparative and Historical Methods

SOCI 196B - Honors Seminar

Selected Publications:

*"Casing Political Consumerism," with David Kadanoff. Mobilization, vol.

15, no. 2 (2010), 159-177.

*"Reversals of Fortune: Path Dependency, Problem Solving, and Temporal Cases." Theory and Society, vol. 39 (2010), 25-48.

*"A Tale of Two Bourgeoisies: Race, Class, and Citizenship in San Francisco and Cincinnati, 1870-1911." Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 17 (2005), 35-68

*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)

* 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.