Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America

Michael Zakim offers a paper entitled “Paperwork,” a social and cultural exploration of antebellum clerkship and the relationship of that species of “nonproductive labor” to the emergence of modern American capitalism. His paper can be found here.
About our speaker:

Michael Zakim is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic (2003); and editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012).