Max Fraser
My interests in American history are concerned largely with issues of labor, class, and political economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, I studied the history of the American labor movement, with a particular focus on the relationship between the labor movement and the state and the changing nature of working class politics during the postwar period. As a PhD student, I want to work on the intersection between labor history and the study of political economy, to examine how 19th and 20th century capitalism has determined the evolving contours of class and power in the social and political life of the country. Before attending Yale, I spent four years as a journalist, working for The Nation magazine and writing about labor and the economy.
