ILRLR 3035

ILRLR 3035

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Undergraduate seminar whose topic changes depending on semester and instructor.

When Offered Fall or spring.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Rhetoric of Labor

  • 14610 ILRLR 3035   LEC 001

  • This course investigates several different modes of rhetorical criticism for speech acts dealing with labor movements throughout history. The course moves from the early rhetoric of the Boston coopers and shoemakers form guilds through the formation of modern labor unions and the rhetorical responses to these movements from various stakeholders to present day speech acts involving current issues involving labor. Students learn the historical context of the speech acts surrounding significant labor events and how to apply rhetorical analysis tools to them.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6080

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Seminar on Precarious Workers

  • 16576 ILRLR 3035   LEC 002

  • For the last two decades the U.S. economy has experienced a dramatic growth in precarious employment, including low wage jobs and contingent (or episodic) employment.  Examples of precarious employment include the work of day laborers, domestic workers, guest workers and low-wage immigrant workers.  Long-term and structural changes in the economy and society have driven this trend. Such changes have included the shift from a manufacturing based- to a service based-economy, implementation of labor-saving business strategies and technologies, the reduction of unionization rates and globalization-triggered immigration.  The growth of precarious employment raises broad reaching research and policy questions about the future of work globally.  This course will address these questions as well as proposed solutions.  Along with studying scholarship on these issues, students will engage in semester-long research projects related to precarious workers in conjunction with the Worker Institute at Cornell.