ILRLR 3035

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ILRLR 3035
Special Topics in Labor Relations

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

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: Applied Data Uses in the Social Sector

  • 14198 ILRLR 3035   LEC 001

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  • This course will exam a range of social science data applications in non-academic settings in the social sector. We will engage a range of perspectives, including: • Labor unions (union campaign strategy) • Policy think tanks (policy advocacy) • Social service organizations (grant funding) • Government sector (policy analysis and accountability) • Social movement organizations (strategic narrative framing) • Legal advocacy (impact litigation and cause lawyering) among others. We will consider the ways in which traditional academic research methods translate into these needs, and how they fundamentally differ. We will draw on the experiences of practitioners in these fields and students will be expected to carry out a pilot project accordingly.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6080

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Seminar on Precarious Workers

  • 16737 ILRLR 3035   LEC 002

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  • 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.