POLT 315 - Seminar: The Future of Organized Labor

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3 SS, WP

This seminar examines the challenges facing labor movements in advanced capitalist societies today, and the ways in which workers and labor unions are responding to those challenges. The focus will be upon organized labor in the United States and Western Europe. Among the issues explored will be: economic restructuring; globalization; changes in the composition of the working class, including immigration and the feminization of work; the role of the state; and new organizing strategies. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Instructor: C. Howell