Course Requirements
I expect that:
o You will come to class each day on time, having done the reading assignments and prepared to participate by asking and answering questions and by expressing your opinions.
o You will ask questions about anything you don't understand.
o You will turn in the written assignments on time and that they will reflect the best work you can do.
o You will contact me if you are having any problems in the course or if you are having personal problems which may affect your performance in the course.
o You will work hard at getting the most out of this course that you possibly can.

Grades
1. One-quarter of your grade will be based on your attendance and participation in class. Your class participation is important, especially in a class like this where we will be discussing difficult questions with no easy answers.
2. One-quarter of your grade will be based on writing assignments. There will be between three and five writing assignments.  Some will be individual assignments. Others will be group assignments for which each member of the group will receive the same grade. I encourage all students to take advantage of the Center for Academic Excellence to get help with your writing. Everyone can improve their writing.  It helps to do an outline, then a draft, and show it to the CAE and/or to me before submitting your final version to me.  I do not accept late papers except in cases of extreme family or medical emergencies.
3.  One-quarter of your grade will be based on your journals, which will primarily be your reactions to the films.  You should briefly summarize each film, then write down your reactions to it.  You should use the concepts and themes we discuss in class, but also include any other ideas you think are relevant.
4.  One-quarter of your  grade will be based on a take-home final exam. This will be an essay-style exam. It will cover the entire course.

Web Readings
Many of the readings for this source will be found on the website for Politics 260, which is found on the Library’s website.. The course  readings to be found on the website are marked with an asterisk (*). It is each student’s responsibility to get these readings from the website. Please download them so you can mark them up as well as bring them to class. There are articles from magazines, newspapers, journals and other sources. 

Required Books
These books are all available at the Occidental bookstore:
1. Barbara Ehrenreich,  Nickel and Dimed. 2001.
2. Joanne Ciulla, The Working Life. 2000.
3. Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais, Labor’s Untold Story. 1955
4. Michael Zweig, Working Class Majority. 2000.
5. Andrew Stern, A Country That Works. 2006.

Recommended Books
1. Harley Jebens, 100 Jobs in Social Change, New York: MacMillan, 1996
2. Melissa Everett, Making A Living While Making a Difference: The Expanded Guide to Creating         Careers with a Conscience, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1999.
3. Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Work and Labor Through Film
Each Tuesday we will see a film (and some weeks two short films) in class. In addition, one of your assignments will be to pick another labor film from the list below, view it on your own time, and write a paper about it. In addition to watching the film, you should read at least one substantial account of the event or the era or the figure portrayed in the film. You should NOT use Wikipedia as your source. Each of these are dramas, not documentaries, with professional actors.
I will ask you to tell me which film you’ve selected before the spring break. Please talk to me about your selection so I can help you identify background reading about the film. Before selecting a film, look it up on the web to learn about when it was made, who made it, what it is about, and any controversies or issues surrounding the film. Find out if it is available in the Oxy library, in local video/DVD stores, or through inter-library loan.
 In your paper, answer the following questions: Why did you choose this film? What message(s) or images concerning labor in the past are communicated in the film? How accurate or inaccurate are these messages or images of labor in your opinion? How does this film confirm, contest or extend course themes?

“The Garment Jungle” (1957) (directed by Vincent Sherman, with Lee J. Cobb, Robert Loggia)
“Grapes of Wrath” (1940) (directed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda, John Carradine)
“Salt of the Earth” (1953) (new DVD version released in 2004)
“Man in the Grey-Flannel Suit” (1956) (with Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones)
“The Molly Maguires” (1970) (with Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar)
“Sacco and Vanzetti” (1971) (with Milo O’Shea)
“Joe Hill” (1971) (with Thommy Berggren)
“Blue Collar” (1978) (with Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel)
“9to5” (1980) (with Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lilly Tomlin)
“Silkwood” (1983) (with Kurt Russell, Cher, Meryl Streep)
“Keeping On” (1983) (with Danny Glover, Carol Kane, James Broderick)
“El Norte” (1984) (with Ernesto Cruz, Zaida Gutierrez);
“The Killing Floor,” (1985) (with Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard)
“Rising Son” (1990) (with Brian Dennehy, Matt Damon, Ving Rhames, Piper Laurie)
“Hoffa” (1992) (with Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito)
“Newsies,” (1992) (a musical with Robert Duvall, Christian Bale, Luke Edwards, Ann-Margret)
“Mother Trucker” (1996) (with Barbara Williams, Blair Slater)
“Cradle Will Rock” (1999) (with Hank Azaria, Susan Sarandon)
“Office Space” (1999) (with Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston)

“Harlan County War” (2000) (with Holly Hunter)
“10,000 Men Named George” (2002) (with Andre Braugher, Charles Dutton)
Campus Speakers
During the semester, a number of speakers will be coming to campus to discuss issues of work, careers, jobs for social justice, and other topics. I will let you know about these and encourage you to attend.

Websites on Work and Labor

AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org (major labor union federation)
Change to Win: http://www.changetowin.org (a new coalition of large unions that broke off from
the AFL-CIO in 2005)
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor: http://www.launionaflcio.org (umbrella group for LA
area labor unions)
Organizing Institute: http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/oi (training program for prospective union
organizers)
Union Summer: http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/unionsummer (paid internship program through which college students spend a summer working on a union organizing campaign.
Union Jobs Clearinghouse: http://www.unionjobs.com/ (website with lists of job openings with unions around the country)
No-Sweat Apparel: http://nosweatapparel.com (how/where to purchase union-made clothing)
Union Label: http://www.unionlabel.org (how/where to purchase union-made products)
Boycott List: http://www.unionlabel.org/boycott_list.jsp (AFL-CIO list of companies targeted
for boycotts by unions for unfair labor practices)
International Labor Rights Fund: http://www.laborrights.org (human and labor rights group)
Employment Policies Institute: http://www.epionline.org (business-backed policy think tank)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: http://www.uschamber.com (major business lobby group)
Business Rountable: http://www.businessroundtable.org (lobby group for the largest US companies)
National Right-to-Work Committee: http://www.nrtwc.org (business-backed advocacy group
committed to opposing unions)
Labor Relations Institute: http://lrionline.com (business-oriented group dedicated to helping
companies be “union free”)
Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epinet.org (labor-backed policy think tank)
Inequality.Org: http://www.inequality.org (research and publications on wealth and income inequality)
United for a Fair Economy: http://www.faireconomy.org (think tank and advocacy group about
economic inequality)
Center for Economic and Policy Research: http://www.cepr.net (liberal think tank about economic issues)
Interfaith Worker Justice: http://www.iwj.org (links faith-based groups with labor groups to
promote worker rights)

Jobs with Justice: http://www.jwj.org (links community groups and unions to promote economic and worker justice)
American Labor Studies Center: http://www.labor‑studies.org (labor history and studies)
9-to-5:  http://www.9to5.org  (national association of working women)
Association for Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.com (promotes internal
democracy within unions)
UC Berkeley Labor Center: http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu (research on California labor issues)
UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education: http://www.labor.ucla.edu (research on California labor issues)
Labor Notes: http://labornotes.org (research and advocacy in favor of unions)
Labor News: http://www.labornews.org (facts about unions and labor laws)
United Students Against Sweatshops website: http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org (links student groups with labor unions to promote worker rights)
Workers Rights Consortium: http://workersrights.org (monitors factory conditions around the
world)
Sweatshop Watch website: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org (watchdog group on sweatshops)
Human Rights Right: http://www.hrw.org (watchdog/advocacy group on international human
and labor rights)
National Labor Committee: http://www.nlcnet.org  (watchdog group on international human rights and labor rights)
Working Life: http://workinglife.org (blog and website around worker rights, unions, and politics)
Why Work: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery: http://www.whywork.org (a forum
critical of the “work ethic”)\
U.S. Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov (federal agency responsible for addressing concerns of workers)
Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov (federal agency responsible for collecting data on
wages, hours, employment and other economic conditions)
U.S. Occupational Health & Safety Administration: http://www.osha.gov (federal agency responsible for workplace safety)
National Labor Relations Board: http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb (federal agency responsible for enforcing U.S. labor-management laws - including union representation elections –  under National Labor Relations Act)
Cornell Law School: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Collective_bargaining (overview of labor laws and collective bargaining)
Bread and Roses Cultural Project: http://www.bread‑and‑roses.com (provides  art, music, theater and other cultural resources on behalf of unions and workers)

TOPICS, READINGS, AND FILMS

Week One:  Introduction

Tuesday, January 22
Film:  “Norma Rae”
*Bertolt Brecht, “Questions From a Worker Who Reads” (Poem, 1935)

Thursday, January 24
Ciulla, The Working Life (Introduction and Chapters 1-4)
*Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness” (Harpers Magazine, 1932)
*Witt, "We Rarely See Those Who Labor" (Baltimore Sun, Aug 22, 1999)
*Schlosser, “Penny Foolish: Why Does Burger King Insist on Shortchanging Tomato Pickers?”
(NYTimes, Nov 29, 2007)
*Weiner, “Low-Wage Costa Ricans Make Baseballs for Millionaires” (NYT, Jan. 25, 2004)
*Conlin, “Youth Quake” (Business Week. January 21, 2007)
*”Hints for Watching Films About Work”

Week Two: The Meaning of Work: What Is a Good Job?

Tuesday, January 29
Film: “A Civil Action”
*Freeman and Rogers, “Ask the People Who Live There” (from What Workers Want, Cornell University Press, updated edition, 2006, pages 29-42)
*Dzeudet Hadziosmanovic, “Software Engineer” (in John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter, editors, Gig, 2000,  pages 17-20)
*Sandra White, “Workfare Street Cleaner” (in Gig, pages 24-26)
*Denise Barber,” “Steelworker” (in Gig. pages 31-36)
*Sandy Wilkens, ”Slaughterhouse Human Resources Director” (in Gig, pages 40-45)
*Robert Devlin, “Chief Executive Officer” (in Gig, pages 45-48)
*Natasha Werther, “Kinko’s Co-Worker” (in Gig, pages 60-65)
*John Dove, "Automobile Parts Specialist" (in Gig, pages 66-70)
*Josh Williams, “Advertising Executive” (in Gig, pages 123-126)
*Katy Bracken, “Second Grade Teacher” (in Gig, pages 391-394)
*John Hart, “Corporate Securities Lawyer,” (in Gig, pages 412-415)
*Deborah Rouse, “City Planner” (in Gig, pages 482-487)
*David Newcomb, “Pharmaceutical Company Sales Representative” (in Gig, pages 518-523)
*Garson, “Lordstown” (in All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work,
1975)
*Richtel, “Young Doctors and Wish Lists: No Weekend Calls, No Beepers” (NYT, Jan. 7, 2004)
*Schwartz, “Always on the Job, Employees Pay with Health” (NYT, September 5, 2004)
*Wells, “Advice For the Soon-to-Be or Newly Graduated Student on Choosing a Career with a Conscience” (Waging Peace, February 2002)
*”Rock the Boat - Careers in Social Justice: Parts I and II” (UC-Berkeley Career Center, Nov. 2002)

Thursday, January 31
Ciulla, The Working Life (Chapters 5-9)

Week Three: The Class System

Tuesday, February 5
Film: “Wall Street”
Zweig, Working Class Majority (Introduction and Chapter 1)
*Tilly and Tilly, “Worlds of Work” (Work Under Capitalism, Westview Press, 1998, pages 21-35)
*Mohan, "Though Far from Poor, A Family Struggles Daily," LA Times, May 18, 2004
*”Inequality in America: The Rich, The Poor, and the Growing Gap Between Them” (The Economist, June 17, 2006)
*Johnston, “Report Says the Rich are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster” (NYT, Dec. 15, 2007)
*Anderson, et al., Executive Excess 2007 (United for a Fair Economy, August 2007) – skim
*Hartmann, “Needed: Workplace Democracy” (TomPaine.Com, September 19, 2006)
*Paycheck Paralysis: Jobs and Incomes in Today’s Labor Market (Demos, Winter 2007)
Handouts: tables on what people earn in different jobs, on wealth and income inequality,
and other topics

Thursday, February 7
Zweig, Working Class Majority (Chapters 2 and 3)

Week Four: The Working Poor in a Society of Abundance

Tuesday, February 12
Films: “Waging a Living” and +”Made in LA”
Zweig, The Working Class Majority (Chapter 4)
*Conlin and Bernstein, “Working and Poor” (Business Week, May 31, 2004)
*Gertner, “What Is a Living Wage?” (NYT, January 15, 2006)
*Making Ends Meet: How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Family in California? (California Budget Project, October 2007)
*Greenhouse, “Among Janitors, Labor Violations Go With the Job” (NYT, July 13, 2005)
*Appelbaum, "The Los Angeles Garment Industry" (from Between a Rock and a Hard Place)
*Su, "El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops" (from Ross, ed., No Sweat)
*Appelbaum and Dreier, “The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement” (American Prospect, October  1999)
United Students Against Sweatshops website: http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
LA Garment Workers Center website: http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
Sweatshop Watch website: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org
National Labor Committee website: http://www.nlcnet.org
UNITE HERE website: http://www.unitehere.org

Thursday, February 14
Ehrenreich, Nickle and Dimed
 
 
Week Five: The Labor Wars and the Rise of Big Business

Tuesday, February 19
Films: “Clockwork” (25 min)  and excerpt from “Modern Times” with Charlie Chaplin

*Warner and Low, "The Shoe Industry in Yankee City" (from The Social System of a Modern Factory, 1947)
*Jacoby, “The Way it Was: Factory Labor Before 1915" (from Employing Bureaucracy: Managers,
Unions, and the Transformation of work in American Industry, 1900-1945, 1985)
*Andrew Carnegie, “An Employer’s View of the Labor Question,” in The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays, 1886).
*Taylor, “Fundamentals of Scientific Management” (1911)
*Braverman, “The Division of Labor” (from Labor and Monopoly Capital, 1974)
*”Preamble, Industrial Workers of the World” (1903)

Thursday, February 21
Film: “Debs and the American Movement” (44 minutes)
Morais and Boyer, Labor’s Untold Story (Chapters 3-6)

Week Six: Immigration, Race, Sweatshops, and the Early Labor Movement

Tuesday, February 26
Film: “Matewan”
Morais and Boyer, Labor’s Untold Story (Chapters 7-8)
*Tuttle, "Labor Conflict and Racial Violence: The Black Worker in Chicago, 1894-1919" (Labor    History, 1969)

Thursday, February 28
Films: “The Triangle Fire”
Triangle Fire website: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire (peruse for 30 minutes)
*Liebhold and Rubenstein, "History of Sweatshops" (from Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A  History             of American Sweatshops
*"History of Sweatshops in Photographs" (from Between a Rock and a Hard Place)
*"History of Sweatshops through Graphics" (from Between a Rock and a Hard Place)
*Rose Cohen, "My First Job" (1918) (from Stein, ed., Out of the Sweatshop)
*Florence Kelly, "In Chicago's Sweatshops" (1899) (from Stein, ed. Out of the Sweatshop)
*Schneiderman, "A Cap Maker's Story' (1905) (from McClymer, The Triangle Strike and Fire)
*Mailly, "The Largest Strike of Women" (1910) (from Stein, ed., Out of the Sweatshop)
*Kerr, "The New York Factory Investigating Commission and the Minimum Wage Movement"     (Labor History, 1971)

Week Seven: The Depression, New Deal and Unionism

Tuesday, March 4
Film: “The Devil and Miss Jones”
*Frank, “Girls Occupy Chain Store, Win Big: The Detroit Woolworth’s Strike of 1937" (in Zinn, Frank and Kelley, Three Strikes)
*Laslett, “Gender, Class or Ethno-cultural Struggle: The Problematic Relationship Between Rose Pesotta and the LA ILGWU” (California History, Spring 1993)
*Walsh, “The Films We Never Saw: American Movies View Organized Labor, 1934-54" (Labor   History, 27 (4), 1986)

Thursday, March 6 

Film: “Sit Down and Fight” (58 min) or “You May Call Her Madame Secretary” (57 min)
Morais and Boyer, Labor’s Untold Story (Chapters 8-10)

Week Eight: Labor, the Cold War, Race, and Civil Rights

Tuesday, March 18
Film: “On the Waterfront”
Morais and Boyer, Labor’s Untold Story (Chapters 11-12)
*Schrecker, “Labor Encounters the Anticommunist Crusade” (New Labor Forum, Spring/Summer 1999)
*Sayre, "Assaulting Hollywood" (World Policy Journal, Winter 1995/1996)

Thursday, March 20                                                              
Film: “At the River I Stand”
*Korstad and Lichtenstein, “How Organized Black Workers Brought Civil Rights to the South” (Journal of American History, December 1988)
*Honey, “Martin Luther King and the Memphis Sanitation Strike” (from Robert Zieger, ed., Southern Labor in Transition, 1997)
*Dreier, “Lynching Lessons” (CommonDreams, June 17, 2005)
*Chavez, “Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers Union” (from Ruiz and Korrol, eds., Latina Legacies, 2005)

Week Nine: Women and Work

Tuesday, March 25
Film: “North Country” (Background information about the film:
http://www.sexualharassmentsupport.org/JensonVsEvelethMines.html
*Cobble, “When Feminism Had Class” (in Zweig, ed, What’s Class Got to do With It?, 2004)
*MacLean, “The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women's Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class,” Feminist Studies, Spring 1999
*Hoerr, “Solidaritas at Harvard” (American Prospect, Summer 1993)
*Sapiro, ”Sexual Harrassment” (from Sapiro, Women in American Society, 1999)

Thursday, March 27
Film: “The Life & Times of Rosie the Riveter”
*Cotter, Hermsen and Vanneman, “Gender Inequality at Work” (from Gender and Work, 2004)
*Tannen, "Marked: Women in the Workplace" (from Talking 9 to 5, William Morrow & Co, 1994)
*Williams, "Designing Mom-Size Jobs" (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 17, 2000)
*Crittenden, “How Mothers’ Work Was `Disappeared’: The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife” (from The Price of Motherhood, 2001)
*Hondagneu-Sotelo, “Maid in LA” (from Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the         Shadows of Affluence, 2001)
*England and Folbre, “Capitalism and the Erosion of Care” (from Madrick, Unconventional Wisdom, 2000)

Week Ten: Work, Leisure and Security

Tuesday, April 1

Film: “John Q”
Ciulla, The Working Life (Chapters 10-12 and Epilogue)
Zweig, The Working Class Majority (Chapter 5)
*Hoerr, “System Crash” (American Prospect, December 1994)
*Gosselin, “How Bedrock Promises of Security Have Fractured Across America” (LAT, Dec. 30, 2005)
*Leland, “When  Health Insurance is Not a Safeguard” (NYT, Oct. 23,  2005)
*Ehrenreich and Draut, “Downsized But Not Out” (Nation, November 6, 2006)
*Hacker, “The New Economic Insecurity – And What Can Be Done About It” (Harvard Law &             Policy   Review, 2007) – just skim this article

Thursday, April 3
Film: “The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need”
*Schor, “The (Even More) Overworked American” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)
*Gordon and Early, “What Ever Happened to the 8 Hour Day?” (Nation, October 23, 2007)
*Mandel, “The Real Reasons You’re Working So Hard...And What You Can Do About It,” (Business Week, October 3, 2005)
*Jacobs and Gerson with Gornick, “The Time Divide: American Workers in Cross-national Perspective” (from The Time Divide, 2004)    
*Brandt, “An Issue for Everybody” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)
*Robinson, “The Incredible Shrinking Vacation” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)
*Golden, “Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)
*Korten, “What’s An Economy For?” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)
*Hayden, “Europe’s Work-Time Alternatives” (de Graff, Take Back Your Time)

Week Eleven: White Collar Work: Management and Professional Jobs

Tuesday, April 8
Film: “The Insider”  
*Rosenblatt, “How Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves” (NYT Magazine, March 20, 1994)
*Schiltz, “On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and
Unethical Profession” (Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 52, 1999)
*Dowie, “Pinto Madness” (Mother Jones, September/October 1977)
*Dao, “Mine Safety Official Critical of Policies Faces Firing” (NYT, November 9, 2003)
*Fraser, “The Best of All Possible Worlds of Work?” (from White Collar Sweatshop, 2001)
*Kirschenman and Neckerman, “‘We’d Love to Hire Them, But...’: The Meaning of Race for
Employers” (in Jencks and Peterson, The Urban Underclass, 1991)
*Grossman, "Race in the Workplace" (HR Magazine, March 2000)

Thursday, April 10
*Danaher and Mark, “White Collar Anger” (from Alternet, Dec. 18, 2003)
*Mahler, “Commute to Nowhere” (NYT Magazine, April 13, 2003)
*Gordon, “Nurse, Interrupted” (American Prospect, February 2000)
*Girion, “Unionized Nurses Flex Their Muscle” (LAT, Sept. 11, 2007)
*Budrys, “To Unionize or Not...Why Do Doctors Join Unions?” (Association of Neurological                    Surgeons Bulletin, Winter 1999)
*Imberman, "Why Engineers Strike -- The Boeing Story" (Business Horizons, Nov/Dec 2001)

*Solman and Friedman, “The Anti-Business Business” (in Life and Death on the Corporate                       Battlefield, 1992)
*Zwerdling, “Workplace Democracy: Introduction” (from Workplace Democracy, 1980)

Week Twelve: Work, Health, Safety, and the Environment

Tuesday, April 15
Film: “Sicko”
*Pear, “GOP Leaders Fight Expansion of Children’s Health Insurance” (NYT, July 25, 2007)
*Toner, “2008 Candidates Vow to Overhaul US Health Care” (NYT, July 6, 2007)
*Mintz, ”Single-Payer: Good for Business” (Nation, November 15, 2004
*Reid, “The European Social Model” (in The United States of Europe, 2004)
*Capell, “The French Lesson in Health Care” (Business Week, July 9, 2007)
*Kuttner, “Canadian Drugs Aren’t the Cure” (Boston Globe, Aug. 18, 2004)
*Lindorff, “GM’s Health Care Double  Standard” (In These Times, April 27, 2005)
*Hayes, “Michael Moore’s Sicko,” (Nation, July 16/23, 2007)
*Gratzer, “Unhealthy Policies” (Weekly Standard, June 18, 2007)

Thursday, April 17
Film: “The Blue and Green Alliance” (8 minutes)
*Schoch, “Labor Lends Its Clout to Port Pollution Battle” (LA Times, January 28, 2006)
*Brecher, Costello and Smith, “Global Warming is a Labor Issue” (New Labor Forum, Fall 2007)
*Moberg, “Brothers and Sisters – Greens and Labor: It’s a Coalition that Gives Corporate Polluters Fits” (Sierra Club Magazine, January/February 1999
*Belli, “Welcome to Green-Collar America” (E Magazine, November/December 2007)
*Schlosser, “The Most Dangerous Job” (from Fast Food Nation, 2001)
*Dreier,, “Mine Deaths Follow Weak Regulations” (National  Catholic Reporter, Feb. 16, 2007)
*Carroll, “Bush Threatens to Veto House Mine-Safety Bill” (Louisville Courier-Journal, January 16, 2008)
*Pear, “Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation” (NYT, January 30, 2007)
*Labaton, “OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry” (NYT, April 25, 2007)
*Barstow, “U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace” (NYT, December 22, 2003)
*Barstow and Bergman, “At a Texas Foundry, an Indifference to Life” (NYT, January 8, 2003)
*Barstow and Bergman, “Family’s Profits, Wrung From Blood and Sweat” (NYT, January 9, 2003)
*Barstow and Bergman, “Deaths of the Job, Slaps on the Wrist” (NYT, January 10, 2003)
*DePalma, “Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani’s Legacy” (NYT, May 14, 2007)
*Reich, "Bridgestone Tire Controversy" (from Locked in the Cabinet, 1997)
*Greenhouse,  “Battle Lines Drawn Over Ergonomic Rules” (NYT,   Nov. 18, 2000)
*Greenhouse, “Bush Plan to Avert Work Injuries Seeks Voluntary Steps By Industry”  (NYT, April 6, 2002)
U.S. Congress,  Workforce Protections Subcommittee Hearing: "Have OSHA Standards Kept up with Workplace Hazards?" April 24, 2007 (Watch the hearings here:             http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/wp042407.shtml
Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect (AFL-CIO, April 2007) (just skim this report)
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/safety/memorial/upload/doj_2007.pdf

Week Thirteen: Workers and Unions in a Global Economy

Tuesday, April 15
Film: “The Corporation”
Zweig, The Working Class Majority (Chapters 6 and 7)
*Firebaugh, “The New Geography of Global Income Inequality” (from The New Geography of     Global   Income, 2003)
*Lowenstein, “What Is She Really Doing to American Jobs and Wages?” (NYT Magazine, July 9, 2006)
*Echaveste, "Worked Over: How Bush's Immigration Proposal would Turn Workers Into Quasi-Indentured Servants" (American Prospect, Jan. 8, 2004)
*Hamilton, “Workers of the World Unite” (Mother Jones (October 25, 2007)  *Barboza, “Reform Stalls in Chinese Factories” (NYT, Jan. 6, 2008)
*Sowell, “Wal-Mart Growth is An Example of Free-Market Economics” (Pasadena Star-News,    Dec. 15, 2003)
*Fishman, “The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know” (Fast Company, December 2003)
*Olsson, "Up Against Wal-Mart" (Mother Jones, March/April 2003)
*Lichtenstein, “Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century Capitalism?” (New Labor Forum, Spring   2005)
*Goldman and Cleeland, “An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World” (LAT, Nov. 23, 2003)
*Cleeland, Iritani, & Marshall, “Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt” (LAT, Nov. 24, 2003)
*Iritani, “Unions Go Abroad in Fight With Wal-Mart” (LA Times, Aug. 24, 2005)
*Greenhouse, “How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart” (NYT, July 15, 2005)
Wal-Mart Watch website: http://www.walmartwatch.com
Wake-Up Wal-Mart website: http://wakeupwalmart.com
Wal-Mart website: http://www.walmartfacts.com

Thursday, April 17
*DeMassa, “Unionizing LA Guards Isn’t Easy” (LA Times, Sept 17, 2005)
*Greenhouse, "Labor and Clergy Reunite to Help Society's Underdogs" (NYT, August 18, 1996)
*Bernstein, “Can This Man Save Labor?” (Business Week, Sept. 13, 2004)
*Greenhouse, “A Union With Clout Boldly Stakes its Claim on Politics”  (NYT, Oct. 30, 2007)
*Phillips-Fein, "A More Perfect Union-Buster" (Mother Jones, September/October 1998)
*Benz, “Sisyphus and the State” (Dissent, Fall 2004)
*Cornfield, Shifts  in Public Approval of Labor Unions in the U.S., 1936-1999 (Gallup Organization,   September 1999)
*Peterson, “A Lazy Man’s Labor Policy” (Dollars&Sense, Sept/October 2007)

Week Fourteen: The Future of Work and Unions

Tuesday, April 29
Film: “Bread and Roses”
*Greenhouse, “Among Janitors, Labor Violations Go With the Job” (NYT, July 13, 2005) - re-read
*Greenhouse, “Union Claims Texas Victory With Janitors” (NYT, Nov. 28, 2005)
*Meyerson, “A Clean Sweep” (American Prospect June 19, 2000)
Stern, A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track (Chapters 1-7)

Thursday, May 1 (May Day - look it up)
Stern, A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track (Chapters 8-9 and Conclusion)