Social Thought & Polic. Econ 491H - STPEC Focus Seminar I
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Traci Parker
TH 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
51399
A four credit honors seminar for junior and senior STPEC students who have completed STPEC 391H. Focus seminar topic changes each semester. Fulfills the STPEC Focus Seminar requirement for STPEC students.
Open to Senior and Junior STPEC majors only. STPEC 391H Topic Title- Race at Work: Workers of Color and the American Labor Movement
Course Description: This course explores the relationship between race and labor, reaching from the age of emancipation through the Reagan era. Engaging historical and filmic texts, this course examines various themes in labor history and class formation. Beginning with an interrogation of race in labor history as a field of historical study, this course moves along chronological and thematic axes to investigate changes in wage and labor structure, agricultural and industrial production, domestic work, and service work. It will consider the experiences ? including, but not limited to migration, community building and organizing, labor unions, policy, and leisure ? of African American, Asian, and Mexican Americans, among others. The Civil Rights Movement and the Fair Employment Movement will be critical to this course as they best highlight the strategies and patterns of labor organizations, protests, and negotiation among workers of color since emancipation. This course also will explore affirmative action and the reconsolidation of racial discrimination in the workplace in the late twentieth century.
Course Description: This course explores the relationship between race and labor, reaching from the age of emancipation through the Reagan era. Engaging historical and filmic texts, this course examines various themes in labor history and class formation. Beginning with an interrogation of race in labor history as a field of historical study, this course moves along chronological and thematic axes to investigate changes in wage and labor structure, agricultural and industrial production, domestic work, and service work. It will consider the experiences ? including, but not limited to migration, community building and organizing, labor unions, policy, and leisure ? of African American, Asian, and Mexican Americans, among others. The Civil Rights Movement and the Fair Employment Movement will be critical to this course as they best highlight the strategies and patterns of labor organizations, protests, and negotiation among workers of color since emancipation. This course also will explore affirmative action and the reconsolidation of racial discrimination in the workplace in the late twentieth century.