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2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HON 2510 - The Ethnography of Work

Credit Hours 3
Cross Listed: N/A
Dual Listed: N/A
Prerequisite: N/A
Corequisite: N/A
Pre/Corequisite N/A
Description: This course explores the history, contemporary meanings and transformations of work and employment through an interdisciplinary social science lens.  Relying on ethnographic accounts of work, students will examine working conditions and jobs in the United Stated and beyond, with a critical focus on how globalization shapes labor markets. Major course themes include cultural meanings of work, theories of work and employment and how social attributes like race, class and gender shape our experience of work and opportunity.  Comprehension of current trends, pathways to employment and the organization of work empowers students to better navigate jobs markets and the role of work in their own lives.