From Sweatshops to Sex Trafficking: Labor in Global Perspective

3 units

This course examines contemporary employment practices and how they extend across national borders. We will study multinational firms, global assembly lines, migration, and outsourcing. Topics include sweatshops, sex trafficking, low wages, and suicide. Transnational labor is also illicit, like the lucrative market in sex trafficking from Russia, Eastern Europe, and North Africa to the wealthier countries in the west and north. We will discuss how these kinds of cross-border practices are regulated through local, national, and international bodies.