Talk: Boundaries of the Firm, State, and Nation: The Problem of Public Utility in the American Century

James T. Sparrow, History, University of Chicago.

Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in US History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: The American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War.

This event is a part of Molding Development in the Democratic State, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program.

Pre-circulated papers available at www.history.ucsb.edu/labor