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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.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS SOC Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: SOC151
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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