GOVT 4012

Labor, Class and Race in American Politics

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course examines working class politics in the United States, as it has developed historically and as it exists today, including the ideas and institutions of industrial democracy, the participatory and civic influence of union, contemporary alt-labor politics, and more. Integrated throughout the course is an attention to the complex and contradictory history of racial politics inside and outside the labor movement and broader working class, as well as gendered constructions of 'labor' in cultural forms and legal and workplace institutions. The course material is rooted in the discipline of political science, but draws extensively on history and law as well.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: senior and junior Government majors.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (SBA-AS, SSC-AS)
Course Subfield (AM)
Satisfies Requirement This class satisfies the government senior seminar requirement.

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