Human Rights and the Meaning of Work
This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Master of Liberal Arts curriculum.
This interdisciplinary course explores work -- free and unfree -- and the experience of working people from the vantage point of human rights. With an eye to current debates about equity, the course examines public policy, history, mass culture, and law. It will focus on workplaces ranging from cotton fields to auto plants to Amazon warehouses, on landmark legal cases, and authors ranging from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Key topics include industrialization and de-industrialization, globalization, slavery and emancipation, corporate capitalism, workplace democracy, gender difference, undocumented labor, the role of government and labor unions.
- Fulfills the Elective - Ethics and Leadership requirement
- This course is a part of the Ethics and Leadership concentration