Introduction to Labor Studies

Service Learning

Syllabus and updates

Please note: Dates on the syllabus on the website are correct. If you have any questions about due dates, refer to the syllabus on the website.

Books, readings, and films will be on reserve at the Undergraduate Library.

Thursday, 2/19: Discussion of impact on labor outside US—both on militancy and on regulative institutions

CLASS SESSIONS

2/19: Impact on labor outside US—both on militancy and on regulative institutions

2/24 & 26: Impact on US workers and some of their responses

3/3: Consumer campaigns, fair labor

3/5: Caitlin Morris from NIKE

3/10: Viewing of parts of "Outsourced" and discussion with director

3/12: What is the future of the labor movement?

SYLLABUS

Discussion board site: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/mlevi/4411/

FINAL PAPER: The paper is due by 4:30 pm on Thursday, March 19, in Gowen 101. Please put my name AND the name of the TA on the paper. The office closes at 4:30. Papers turned in after that time will be considered late.

Required readings and films

Levi, Organizing Power

Levi and Linton, Fair Trade

Frank, Consumer-Worker Alliances

Locke et al, Beyond Corporate Codes

Voss and Sherman

Rebuilding the House of Labor

Union Democracy Reexamined

Is Wal-Mart Good for America? (film)

MIDTERM

Midterm

Political Science/History/Sociology 249/266, Winter 2009
Introduction to Labor Studies

Instructor: Professor Margaret Levi
Email: mlevi@u.washington.edu

Office: Gowen 147
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 and by appointment
Telephone: 543-7947

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