Description:

Got a job? Need a job? Don?t want a job? What does it mean to be a worker? Understand the complexities of workers, poverty, and social reform. See yourself as a worker, and understand what that may mean. Topics may include Unions, the class system in America, and the idea of a "good job."

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Explain how work experiences vary across racial, gender, and class lines;
• Critically assess the impact work has had on families;
• Discuss the social and political power of business owners, managers, and workers;
• Describe who workers are in dominant U.S. popular culture;
• Examine the ways in which dominant representations of workers are culturally subverted and contrasted; and
• Analyze the struggles of immigrant workers in what is now seen as the global village of multinational organizations.