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SOC 292
Labor Movements and Labor Markets
SOC 292 SP
| Section | Class Size | *Available | Times | POI | Prereq |
|---|
| 1 | 25 | 4 | Times: M...... 7:00PM-10:00PM; | No | Yes |
*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for
the Blue Add phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous
phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration.
(Last Updated on Tue Aug 10 05:00:21 EDT 1999
)
How do labor movements furnish workers with leverage and
power? Why do trade unions and professional associations
limit the supply of people selling labor on the labor
market? What is the relation between the education system
and the labor market? How is racial and gender
discrimination related to labor movement struggles? What is
the labor market strategy of the contemporary AFL-CIO? This
course will consider movements against child labor,
retirement movements, job-creation campaigns,
anti-immigration restrictions, battles for welfare, shorter
workweek movements, etc., all through the lens of labor
market strategies for labor movement power. Rather than
presume that the labor market is a natural economic
phenomenon, the central task of the course is to understand
the various ways in which the labor market is constructed,
deconstructed, and reconstructed through social movements,
social norms, and social struggle.
MAJOR READINGS
Lourdes Beneria & Catherine Stimpson,
WOMEN, HOUSEHOLDS AND THE ECONOMY
Robin Kelley, RACE REBELS: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE BLACK
WORKING CLASS
Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James, THE POWER OF WOMEN AND
THE SUBVERSION OF THE COMMUNITY
Michael Frisch & Daniel Walkowitz, WORKING-CLASS AMERICA:
ESSAYS ON LABOR, COMMUNITY, AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
Robert Jackson, THE FORMATION OF CRAFT LABOR MARKETS
Seymour Martin Lipset, UNIONS IN TRANSITION: ENTERING THE
SECOND CENTURY
Kim Moody, AN INJURY TO ALL: THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN
UNIONISM
David Roediger, THE WAGES OF WHITENESS: RACE AND THE MAKING
OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS
Anthony Lane, SOLIDARITY OR SURVIVAL: AMERICAN LABOR AND
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS, 1830-1924
Articles in Scholarly Journals.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Reading journal, in-class
deliberative presentations, three take-home essays (8-10
pages each) or a major research paper (25-30 pages).
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE:
Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC
Prerequisites:
SOC 151
- Section 01
- Cutler, J
- Times: M...... 7:00PM-10:00PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 2, So: 3, Fr: 0
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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