Course Info: CSI-0228
| Course | CSI-0228 Labor Organizing in Care Econo |
| Long Title | Labor Organizing in the Care Economy: The History and Politics of Care Work |
| Term | 2024F |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 105 on T,TH from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Amy Jordan |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | The content of this course deals with issues of race and power Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time BOOKS: Title:Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement Author:Premilla Nadasen ISBN: Cost:$22 |
| Description | This course will explore the critical, often hidden, struggles
for autonomy and equitable labor practices among household
(domestic) workers, and workers in home health care, hospitals,
day care centers and the broader service economy. Care workers
have developed some of the most creative and transformative labor
organizing strategies of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. This course will center on struggles for union
recognition at pivotal moments of economic transformation such as
the Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Movement, post-1965
immigration, the Great Recession and the Pandemic. The course
will also highlight the efforts of scholars and activists to
develop oral histories of care workers as part of a critical
strategy for including their labors in dominant conceptions of
what constitutes the "working class." Students will read social
history, ethnography, and worker interviews as well as develop
research projects based upon collections located in the Sophia
Smith Archives at Smith College. Keywords:labor history, U.S. history, gender studies, Africana studies, immigration |