Mary Furner, History, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1899”

Professor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction, 2010); “Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias’s Work as a Window on U.S. History,” in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture (2011); and “From ‘State Interference’ to the ‘Return of the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New,” in Edward Balleisen & David Moss, eds., Government and Markets (2009).

Her presentation will be followed by a symposium honoring Professor Furner’s contributions to the field.