Final Class

IRL 201

Review – Labor and Politics

• Shift from inactive to active political program

• How COPE supports candidates

• Legal regulation of union political activity

Final Readings

• Kelley – “How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America”

• Moody – “A Certain Kind of Globalization” in Boris and Lichtenstein– Sees the problem as not just the world

becoming more integrated economically but also it becoming more?

– What clashes give rise to the crisis that drives globalization?

Major Themes of the Course– The change from an agricultural to an industrial labor force

and from an agricultural to an industrial society– Race, class, and gender in the work place– The nature of worker protest

• Unorganized Workers• Organized Workers

– The types of workers that organized the early unions– The relationship of the business cycle to union membership– The struggle for a workable labor philosophy and the related

struggle for a workable form of central organization– The evolution of the laws regulating work, workers and the

workplace– The evolution of working conditions and how workers and

employers have attempted to adapt them– The behavior of current American unions

Final Thoughts

• Future of work?

• Future of the work place?

• Future of workers and their organizations?

• What rights will workers have and how will those rights be protected?

Final Exam

• Final Exam, Wednesday, 5/7, 3:00

• When I’ll be in my office – Wednesday morning and before exam

• Structure of final exam

• How to answer the last question

Last Words

• Course Evaluation