Semester: Spring
Offered: 2025
Class, one of the most basic analytical concepts in sociology, structures our social world in fundamental ways. Nevertheless, the extent to which social class is salient to people, and the specific content of class-based...
How can we best conceptualize working-class mobilization in the post-Fordist regime of flexible accumulation? With the increasing precariousness of employment, how do workers press their demands? While the emphasis thus far has been on the melding of...
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2024
This course looks at work and culture from both the bottom-up and the top-down. What does work mean from the perspective of workers versus employers—and when do these perspectives align or diverge? Under what circumstances are...
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2022
This course explores the experience of work in the contemporary political economy with an eye toward both its liberating and oppressive potential. How do different forms of work affect our life circumstances, personalities...
