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 | 23 |
| Available | 6 |
| 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 explored 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. This course centered struggles for union recognition at pivotal moments of economic transformation, such as the Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Movement, post-1965 immigration period, and the Great Recession. The course also highlighted 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 read historical and ethnographic studies of household and service workers, wrote short critical essays and developed research projects based upon collections located in the Sophia Smith Women's History Collection at Smith College. |