Extra seats in 2nd 8 weeks Labor Studies courses

The following are web-based courses offered through ONCOURSE:

LSTU-L 100 Survey of Unions and Collective Bargaining 3 cr. Class Number 13209 meets October 21 – December 13. This course includes coverage of historical development, labor law basics, and contemporary issues. It also discusses a survey of labor unions in the United States; focusing on their organization and their representational, economic, and political activities.

L104-Introduction to the Study of Labor History  3 cr. Class Number  9485 meets October 21 – December 13. This course serves as an orientation for the study of labor history.  It explores both critical and historical methodologies based on primary and secondary sources, biases, and interpretations.  Discussions focus on selective questions and events.  

LSTU-L 110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor & Society  3 cr. Class Numbers 9486 and 12136 meet October 21 - December 13.  This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary and advocacy approach of labor studies.  Exploring labor’s role in society, the class will look at how unions have changed the lives of working people and contributed to better social policies.  Discussions will highlight the relationship of our work lives to our non-work lives and will look at U.S. labor relations in a comparative framework. 

LSTU-L 205 Contemporary Labor Problems  3 cr. Class Number 7351 meets October 21 – December 13. This course examines some of the major problems confronting society, workers, and the labor movement.  Topics may include automation, unemployment, international trade, environmental problems, minority and women’s rights, community relations, and changing government policies.

Labor History - 2nd 8 weeks 1 cr. course

Strikes

Oct 16-Nov 13

 

Tuesdays, 5:45-8:35 pm, in Woodburn Hall 009

 

This course looks at a few revolts of ordinary American working people, including the 1886 nationwide strike wave, the 1912 “Bread and Roses” strike, and the “sit-down” strikes of the 1930s. We will examine these events in historical context, analyze how they have been remembered through poetry and song, and connect their meaning to more current events such as the Occupy movement.

 

Instructor: Cynthia Yaudes, American Studies, IUB

 

Labor Studies Department, LSTU-L 290/L390 Strikes,

Class Numbers 33248/33247, 1 cr.

Openings in 2nd 8 weeks Labor Studies Classes

On campus 1 credit hour class:

 

LSTU-L 290/L390 Strikes, Class Numbers 33248/33247, 1 cr. Class meets Tuesday, 5:45-8:35 pm, WH009, Oct 16-Nov 13. Instructor: Cynthia Yaudes, American Studies, IUB.

 

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The following are web-based courses offered through ONCOURSE:

 

LSTU-L 100 Introduction to Unions and Collective Bargaining, 3 cr.  Class Numbers 32265, 32266, 32267 and 32268 will meet October 16 – December 14.   Class numbers 32269 and 32270 will meet October 29 – December 14.   

 

LSTU-L 104 Introduction to Labor History, 3 cr.  Class Number 23979 will meet October 16 – December 14.  Class numbers 23980 and 25134 will meet October 29 – December 14.  

 

LSTU-L 110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor & Society  3cr.  Class Numbers 22645 and 22646 will meet October 16 – December 14.   Class numbers 25137 and 28887 will meet October 29 - December 14. 

 

LSTU-L 205 Contemporary Labor Problems  3 cr.  Class Numbers 22723 and 22724 will meet October 16 – December 14.  Class number 23851 will meet October 29 – December 14. 

 

LSTU-L 290 Family Medical Leave Act  1 cr.  Class Number 24494 will meet October 3 – November 7. 

 

LSTU-L 390 Staffing as a Safety Issue  3 cr.  Class Number 23981 will meet October 16 – December 14. 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT LABOR STUDIES, 855-9084 OR STOP BY EIGENMANN 1029; E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

 

Sarah Bailey (office mgr): 812-855-9084    schilder@indiana.edu

Prof. Lynn Duggan:         812-855-1560    lduggan@indiana.edu

Prof. Joseph Varga:        812-855-9085    jjvarga@indiana.edu

 

Online Labor Studies Courses that start Aug. 27

Are you looking to add another course for the fall semester? Labor Studies courses are taught online and they start today! Remember they will count as outside hours.

L100 Survey of Unions and Collective Bargaining (#32264)
This course includes coverage of historical development, labor law basics, and contemporary issues.  It also discusses a survey of labor unions in the United States; focusing on their organization and their representational, economic, and political activities.

 

L290 Topics in Labor Studies: Labor, Film, and Other Media (#33076)
This course examines how labor is portrayed through the lens of films, television, and other media outlets. Some of the areas discussed include the concept of class and images of workers on television, culture, the working class and Hollywood in the 1930s, Hollywood in the 1950s and 60s and U.S. labor history, labor, community and filmmakers, blacklisting, and political consciousness and community formation.

 

L390 Topics in Labor Studies: The Industrial Workers of the World (#34037)
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) represented an alternative to the conservative and legalistic tradition in US trade unions. Organized in 1905, it spearheaded labor organization among workers left out of the craft-unionist American Federation of Labor. This course is an upper-level seminar which will examine the history of the IWW as a facet of labor history and the history of radical social movements in the United States.

 

L390 Bringing Human Rights Home to Indiana (#21368)
This course engages all participants to gain a working knowledge and basic understanding of the meaning of human rights and human rights movement(s) in Indiana. We shall examine historic human rights movements in the United States; specific human rights documents that are pertinent to working-class life in our region; and we shall begin to consider the difference human rights can make in our various workplaces and communities within our region.

 

L490 Class and Power in Politics (#27076)

This course will explore the political limits placed on working class power in the United States over time and its effect on workers and their organizations. An essential part of the course will focus on the different ways in which power and class intersect in the American political structure, where socioeconomic limits are transformed into political constraints. Using the American political structure as the back drop students will examine basic concepts of power and how concepts of power translate into practical political boundaries that must be overcome if labor is to grow and expand its influence in the American political process.

 

For more information please contact Sarah Bailey schilder@indiana.edu, tel. 855-9084.

 

Looking for a 1-credit spring class?

LSTU-L 290 Work, Labor and Ecology:  Issues and Prospects (1 cr.), class number 32722  

This course examines western concepts of work and the natural environment, including the origins of the work ethic and the “commodification” of labor and nature, beginning with an overview of their capitalist era beginnings.  These concepts will be explored in a modern context of ecological and labor tensions resulting from globalization, using examples of blue green alliances particularly with regard to climate change.  Chris Doran received his PhD in Political Science from Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia. 

This class will meet on Tuesdays, Jan 31, Feb 7, 14, 21 & 28, 5:45-8:25pm, Ballantine Hall 138.

LSTU-L 390 Trafficking Labor Across Borders, (1 cr.), class number 32724

The main focus of the course will be modern slavery and its many faces: trafficking, the US Mexican border and the “smuggling” of agriculture laborers, forced domestic laborers, forced prostitution, as well as sweat shops in the United States. The students will also analyze why a high propensity of modern slavery in US cities positively correlates with large immigrant populations. And, in the process they will learn the ways in which increased public awareness and an introduction of new economic and social policies may combat the exploitation of international and domestic labor.  Stepanka Korytova, PhD., International Studies Program. 

This class will meet in BH005, 5:45-8:25 pm on Mondays, March 26, April 2, 9, 16 and 23.   

For more information, please contact Sarah Bailey, schilder@indiana.edu, (812) 855-9084.

Labor Studies Brown Bag Series

Labor Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series, Fall 2011:

Professor Alex Lichtenstein

History Department, Indiana University Bloomington

Labor in South Africa:  Apartheid and After

What role did the labor movement in South Africa play in ending apartheid? How have workers fared in the new South Africa under an ANC-led government? Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History, will address these questions from a historical perspective.

When:  Tuesday, Nov. 1, 12:00 - 1:15 pm

Where:  IMU – Walnut Room, 900 E. Seventh Street, Bloomington, IN

Please bring your lunch or a snack and join us for a lively discussion. 

For more information, or if you need an “A” parking pass, please call 812-855-9084.  The Labor Studies Program website is: http://labor.iu.edu.

Co-sponsored by History Department and African Studies Program.

8 Week Courses in Labor Studies

Please note that Labor Studies courses are not within the College of Arts & Sciences.

1 credit hour classes:

LSTU-L 290 Working Class Hollywood:  Labor Issues in Popular American Films, Class Number 4262, 1 cr. Class meets Thursday, 5:45-9:15 pm, BH330, Nov 3-Dec 8. Instructor: Cynthia Yaudes, American Studies, IUB.

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The following are web-based courses offered through ONCOURSE:

LSTU-L 100 Introduction to Unions and Collective Bargaining, 3 cr.  Class Numbers 7981, 7982, 10258, 10259 and 8278 will meet October 24 – December 16.   Class numbers 8375 and 8377 will meet October 31 – December 16.   Instructors: Joseph Varga, Charles Davis, C. J. Hawking, and Shariq Siddiqui.

LSTU-L 104 Introduction to Labor History, 3 cr.  Class Number 9660 will meet October 24 – December 13.  Class numbers 11059 and 11783 will meet October 31 – December 16.   Instructors: Paul Mishler and Darren Cushman-Wood.

LSTU-L 110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor & Society  3cr.  Class Number 7810 will meet October 24 – December 16.   Class numbers 8359, 8360 and 11062 will meet October 31 - December 16.  Instructors: Gerrie Casey, Catherine Mulder and Robert Saute, .

LSTU-L 205 Contemporary Labor Problems  3 cr.  Class Number 9524 will meet October 24 – December 16.  Class number 8323 will meet October 31 – December 16.  Instructor: Beverly Takahashi.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT LABOR STUDIES, 855-9082 OR STOP BY POPLARS 633; E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

 

Sarah Bailey (office mgr): 812-855-9084    schilder@indiana.edu

Prof. Lynn Duggan:         812-855-1560    lduggan@indiana.edu

Prof. Joseph Varga:        812-855-9085    jjvarga@indiana.edu

Labor Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series