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Labor and the U.S. Economy
Course #: LABOR 450
Description:
This course places contemporary problems of labor - union decline, wage stagnation, rising inequality, rising insecurity - in the context of the history of U.S. capitalism. Major topics include income and wealth distribution, workplace power relations, labor radicalism, unemployment, race and gender discrimination, household labor, the welfare state, migration, and globalization. No prior study of economics is assumed.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite: Completed 1 First Year Seminar or Completed 30 credit hours or permission of instructor