The syllabus for the 1996 course may be viewed here.
We began with a list of topics that included:
- Relationships between work & family
- Alienation in the workplace
- Worker alienation & job autonomy
- International outsourcing in the athletic shoe industry
- Childcare for working parents
- Race Issues in the workplace
- Representations of work on prime-time T.V.
- Labor unions
- Costco & mass consumption
- The food industry
- Immigration and population impacts on Job markets
- Management styles
- Telecommuting
- Technology and work
- Work cultures and communities
- The Work Ethic
When we first tried to map out these concerns they looked like this. The challenge in studying these interrelationships has been to keep focused on the cross-cutting connections and linkages between these categories. We have begun the task of assembling a site devoted to this task. As a first effort, we recognize that this first version is flawed and that this page will be in a state of continuous construction and reconstruction for some time. So we encourage you social science web wanderer's to DROP US A LINE and offer constructive criticism, insights, or suggestions to help improve this page.