Henry Snow

Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Biography
Henry Snow is a social and political historian of labor. Their work examines the relationship between labor as a material process, a social experience, and a political battleground. Currently they are working on two books. Enemies of Order: Labor and Power at the Atlantic Dockside, with the University of Georgia Press, connects revolution, mechanization, and abolition through the collective action of port laborers across the British Atlantic. They are also writing, with Verso Books, an intellectual and political history of labor discipline titled Control Science: From Bentham to Bezos. It argues that economic thought has co-developed with labor discipline practices from the 17th-century to the present. Henry has contributed to Jacobin magazine, Platypus, the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) blog, and also writes a newsletter, Another Way, on Buttondown.
Publications

Enemies of Order: Labor and Power at the Atlantic Dockside (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming)

Control Science: From Bentham to Bezos (Verso Books, forthcoming May 2026)

 

Image of Professor Henry Snow, a young white man with brown hair, glasses, and a mustache and goatee.
Contact Information
Phone(860) 486-3565
(860) 486-3722
Office LocationWood Hall Rm 207
CampusCampus: Storrs
Office HoursFall 2025: by appointment
CoursesHistory of the Ocean; Science, Technology, and Society; History of the Atlantic World; Shadow Economies; Sea Power; Defeating the Boss: Labor and Radicalism, 1600-Present