R Batzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Batzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Batzell |
| SIGNATURE | BATZELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2292-2060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Infanticide, Infant Mortality, and the Racialized Construction of Fordist Motherhood
This article traces how growing concerns with infant mortality shaped the interpretation and policing of infanticide in turn-of-the-century Chicago. At the heart of the article are 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from the Cook County Coroner between 1872 and 1911. We analyze two major shifts in the inquest language: the rise of increasingly professionalized medical language and changes in the inquest language of “neglect.” In the 187…
Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis
This article uses an unprecedentedly extensive data set of 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from Cook County to measure the incidence of infanticide. We contextualize this data with quantitative evidence on abandonment in Chicago, newspaper coverage, and judicial cases. We argue that over the long run, a changing occupational structure, with wage‐earning women leaving domestic service and entering clerical work, was crucial in decreas…
Uniting Academic Workers
On Friday December 9, 2016, Columbia teaching and research assistants elected the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW) Local 2110 as their union with 1602 yes and 623 no votes. On December 22, a preliminary count for the Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW was not conclusive, with 314 challenge ballots exceeding the margin between 1,272 yes and 1,456 no votes. Both elections were possible because the National Labor Relations…
Introduction
This article introduces the present Special Theme on the global reception and appropriation of E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963). It aims to interrogate Thompson’s legacy and potential vitality at a moment of renewed social and intellectual upheavals. It emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary and global reflection on Thompson’s work and impact for understanding how class, nation, and “the people” as subjects of …
Free Labour, Capitalism and the Anti-Slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s
Journal Article Free Labour, Capitalism and the Anti-Slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s Get access Rudi Batzell Rudi Batzell Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 225, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 143–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu030 Published: 18 September 2014
Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis
This article uses an unprecedentedly extensive data set of 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from Cook County to measure the incidence of infanticide. We contextualize this data with quantitative evidence on abandonment in Chicago, newspaper coverage, and judicial cases. We argue that over the long run, a changing occupational structure, with wage‐earning women leaving domestic service and entering clerical work, was crucial in decreas…
Free Labour, Capitalism and the Anti-Slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s
Journal Article Free Labour, Capitalism and the Anti-Slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s Get access Rudi Batzell Rudi Batzell Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 225, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 143–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu030 Published: 18 September 2014
Introduction
This article introduces the present Special Theme on the global reception and appropriation of E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963). It aims to interrogate Thompson’s legacy and potential vitality at a moment of renewed social and intellectual upheavals. It emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary and global reflection on Thompson’s work and impact for understanding how class, nation, and “the people” as subjects of …
Uniting Academic Workers
On Friday December 9, 2016, Columbia teaching and research assistants elected the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW) Local 2110 as their union with 1602 yes and 623 no votes. On December 22, a preliminary count for the Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW was not conclusive, with 314 challenge ballots exceeding the margin between 1,272 yes and 1,456 no votes. Both elections were possible because the National Labor Relations…
Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis
This article uses an unprecedentedly extensive data set of 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from Cook County to measure the incidence of infanticide. We contextualize this data with quantitative evidence on abandonment in Chicago, newspaper coverage, and judicial cases. We argue that over the long run, a changing occupational structure, with wage‐earning women leaving domestic service and entering clerical work, was crucial in decreas…
Infanticide, Infant Mortality, and the Racialized Construction of Fordist Motherhood
This article traces how growing concerns with infant mortality shaped the interpretation and policing of infanticide in turn-of-the-century Chicago. At the heart of the article are 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from the Cook County Coroner between 1872 and 1911. We analyze two major shifts in the inquest language: the rise of increasingly professionalized medical language and changes in the inquest language of “neglect.” In the 187…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Law (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)