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SOC 565

Seminar in Work

3 units

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Introductions
  • Perspectives on work, work of the past
  • Perspectives on futures, work of the future
  • Technological Change
  • Climate Change
  • Demographic Change
  • Building a better future?

Readings

  • Cynthia J. Cranford. 2020. Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances. ILR Press
    unspecified
  • Natasha Iskander. 2021. Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond. Princeton University Press
    unspecified
  • Alexandrea Ravenelle. 2019. Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy. University of California Press
    unspecified
Winter 2023

Topics

  • Introductions
  • Perspectives on work, work of the past
  • Perspectives on futures, work of the future
  • Technological Change
  • Climate Change + Proposal Due
  • Climate Change
  • Demographic Change
  • Building a better future?

Readings

  • Natasha Iskander. 2021. Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond. Princeton University Press
    unspecified
  • Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. 2015. Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford University Press
    unspecified
  • Alexandrea Ravenelle. 2019. Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy. University of California Press
    unspecified
Sources