International & Comparative Labor (ILRIC)Industrial and Labor Relations

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ILRIC 2350
Work, Labor, and Capital in the Global Economy

Provides an introduction to how globalization is changing the nature of work, labor, and capital. It examines both contemporary and historical debates about globalization, but also covers a number ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 13882 ILRIC 2350   LEC 001

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    • MW Ives Hall 115

    • Batt, R

      Boyer, G

      Gleeson, S

      Kuruvilla, S

ILRIC 2370
Employee Involvement and Workplace Democracy in the Global Economy

This course provides an introduction to the challenges and benefits of employee involvement in decision-making at work.  We will compare and contrast different models, including worker-owned cooperatives, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14143 ILRIC 2370   SEM 101

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  • Fulfills the ILR Advanced Writing Requirement. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores or others with permission who have not satisfied their ILR Advanced Writing Requirement.

ILRIC 4330
Politics of the Global North

From a perspective based on comparative political economy, this course examines pressing contemporary issues such as the politics of growing inequality.  We consider conflicts around markets, democracy, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3303

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16585 ILRIC 4330   LEC 001

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ILRIC 4340
Special Topics in International and Comparative Labor

Devoted to new topics in the field. The specific content and emphasis vary depending upon the interests of the faculty member teaching the course. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Mfg Utopias/Dystopias: Ethnographiesof FactoryWlds

  • 16584 ILRIC 4340   LEC 002

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  • This course challenges students to find shadows of Fordist assembly lines in unexpected places. Using anthropological concepts such as gender, class, labor, consumption, and kinship, we will analyze how organizations of Fordist assembly lines have historically shaped dynamics of power and social inequality across societies in various parts of the world. Examples include industrial pig farms across the U.S., living room factories in Taiwan, danwei work units characteristic of Maoist China, Joseph Stalin’s project of building a “country of steel” in the former Soviet Union, and experiments in fully-automated “smart” factories across Asia, Europe, North America today.

ILRIC 4372
Workers in the City: A Global Perspective

There is now widespread recognition that the world's megacities have become increasingly economically, politically, and culturally powerful in recent decades. People are flocking to cities, and work itself ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRIC 6372

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16603 ILRIC 4372   LEC 001

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ILRIC 5300
Human Resources and Outsourcing in the Networked Firm

This course examines outsourcing decisions from a human resources perspective, and the human resource implications of managing workers in increasingly networked organizations. Outsourcing, offshoring, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14148 ILRIC 5300   LEC 001

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ILRIC 6311
Advanced Research in Migration Studies

Students will participate in a winter session practicum, and in this follow-up course will have the opportunity to work closely with faculty on turning their fieldwork results into professional policy ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 6110

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14922 ILRIC 6311   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: This course is only open to students who have already taken the introductory research methods course LSP/ILRIC 4312/6312 in the Fall 2017.

ILRIC 6330
Comparative Political Economy and Global Debates

From a perspective rooted in comparative political economy, this graduate seminar examines the politics of economic inequality in the United States and Europe.  The emphasis is contemporary: growing inequality, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6303

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16589 ILRIC 6330   LEC 001

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ILRIC 6372
Workers in the City: A Global Perspective

There is now widespread recognition that the world's megacities have become increasingly economically, politically, and culturally powerful in recent decades. People are flocking to cities, and work itself ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRIC 4372

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16605 ILRIC 6372   LEC 001

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ILRIC 7370
Political Economy of Solidarity

Traditional forms of working-class or cross-class solidarity have been declining across the Global North. This class aimed at graduate students examines the critical and institutional social science literature ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16602 ILRIC 7370   LEC 001

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    • W Ives Hall 381

    • Doellgast, V

      Greer, I

ILRIC 9800
Workshop in International and Comparative Labor

Provides a forum for the presentation of current research being undertaken by faculty members and graduate students in the Department of International and Comparative Labor, and by invited guests. All ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 9800

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  • 14211 ILRIC 9800   SEM 101

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