Strike!

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

At a time of rising economic inequality and growing labor precarity, workers around the world are again uniting and demanding justice. In this course, we will embark on a cross-cultural exploration of labor and examine how workers in different social settings have imagined, struggled for, and at times achieved workplace justice. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic and anthropological studies, popular media, and accounts from labor activists around the world, this course will illustrate labor’s relationship to law, political-economy, moral economy, and culture. The strike will serve as a central course theme and guiding analytic for this journey.