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.