AMST 356 - American Working Class

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

A lecture-discussion course which surveys the experience of American wage-earners, with emphasis on their efforts to control their own lives in and out of the workplace. The course will pay particular attention to racial, religious, gender, and skill divisions in the working class and efforts to overcome those divisions by unions, political parties, commercial mass culture, and other means. Roughly equal time will be given to the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of workers' experience. Readings will include works of fiction and autobiography along with many primary documents. There is no prerequisite, but students will benefit from having taken History 202-01 prior to enrolling in History 356-01. This is one of the core courses for the Studies in Progressive American Social Movements minor. 1.00 units, Lecture

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0.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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