Presentation from the October 2103 Graduate Student Residency by Dr. Jason Russell, Labor and Policy Studies Program SUNY Empire State College - Graduate School

1. Jason Russell, Ph.D.
Labor and Policy Studies Program

2.  You have all made a huge leap intellectually by
becoming graduate students.
 It is now crucial to raise your overall level of
writing ability and critical analysis.
 From now on, you should choose reading
materials that are aligned with what you are
reading in graduate school.

3.  New York Review of Books (www.nybooks.com)
 London Review of Books (www.lrb.co.uk)
 Granta (www.granta.com)
 Lapham’s Quarterly
(www.laphamsquarterly.org)
 The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)
 The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

4.  Labor Studies Journal (ESC Library access)
 Labor History (ESC Library access)
 Business History Review (ESC Library access)
 Work, Employment and Society (ESC Library
access)

5.  The Making of the English Working Class (E.P.
Thompson)
 Work, Culture and Society (Herbert Gutman)
 The Visible Hand (Alfred Chandler)
 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca
Skloot)
 The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddharta
Mukherjee)
 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and
Money (John Maynard Keynes)

6.  The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich von Hayek)
 Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci)
 The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli)
 The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
 Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning
Marable)

7.  Try and read authors who have received good
reviews and/or have won prizes.