HISTORY 2104 - The Way We Work

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

American Studies This labor history course covers the colonial era through the present. Unlike many such courses, it does not focus on the struggle between workers and employers for reduced hours, better working conditions, enhanced benefits, and the right to organize; nor is it concerned with the emergence of worker cultures in their varying forms. Although these topics are touched upon, the primary focus is to construct a narrative of the experience of work and how that has changed over time within the American context. For each time period surveyed-preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial-the course examines what Americans have understood work to mean, and how that meaning in turn influenced the experience of work itself. Specific topics include the relationships between work and leisure, individual gain and community good, survival and comfort, private goals and public imperatives, male and female roles, "minorities" and mainstreampopulations, and income and personal satisfaction.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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