US WorkingClassHist Since 1945

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will examine the history of workers in the U.S. from 1945 to the 2020s, looking closely at changing labor relations and labor markets, the rise of women's wage-earning, civil rights, immigration, law and government policy, public sector employment, the impact of technology and the reorganization of work, union decline and efforts at revival, and debates over the "future of work."