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BLS 345; Fall 2001

Global Labor Markets

Class Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays

11-1:05 PM

Reading and Assignment Schedule

Electronic Reserves are found at http://eres.bothell.washington.edu/courseindex.asp

Week One

  INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION  
  Oct 2 The Game Plan  
  Oct 4

Burtless, Introduction pp. 1-12;

TEXT
  Gordon and Turner, "Going Global" pp. 3-25 TEXT
Week Two   FOUNDATIONS OF NEO-LIBERALISM  
 

Oct 9

Burtless, Chs 2& 3; pp. 13-58 Text
  Oct 11 Burtless, Chs 4&5; pp. 59-110 Text
Week Three   PROBLEMS IN SOVEREIGNTY AND DEMOCRACY  
  Oct 16 "Nader and Wallach, "gatt, Nafta, and the Subversion ofthe Democratic process" Reserve
  Kim Moody, Corporatism, Neo-liberalism, Free-Trade and the State, pp. 117-140 Reserve
  Burtless, Ch. 6 110-126 TEXT
 

Problem Set 1; Tutorial; Answer Set 1

WEB
  Oct 18 Dani Rodrik, "Tensions betwee Trade and Domestic Social Arrangements" Reserve
    Gordon and Turner, "European Integration and Europeanization of Labor," pp. 120-142 TEXT
    Thompson, "Chasing Mexico's Dreams Into Squalor," NYT Feb 11, 2001 RESERVE
Week Four   CORPORATE AND LABOR POSITIONS  
  Oct 23 Overview from Lean Work edited by Babson, pp. 41-78 RESERVE
  Oct 25 Gordon and Turner, Chs. 3& 10, pp. 44-59; 202-22 TEXT
Week Five   INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND HUMAN RIGHTS  
  Oct 30 Leiutenant Governor's Forum TACOMA
   

Due: Problem Set #2; Tutorial; Big Mac ArticleAnswer Set #2;

WEB
Nov 1 Leary, "The Paradox of Workers' RIghts and Human RIghts." RESERVE
  Bales, "The New Slavery" pp. 1-33 TEXT
Week Six   FORCED LABOR  
  Nov 6 Bales, pp. 34-79 TEXT
   

First Quiz; STUDY GUIDE FOR QUIZ

Review Session: 11/6/01 at 10:30 in UW1 Room 391

 
  Nov 8 Bales, pp. 121-194 TEXT
Week Seven   GLOBAL WORKING CONDITIONS  
  Nov 13 Chan and Senser, "Sweatshop Socialism," Foreign Affairs, Mar/April 1997 RESERVE
  "Two Cheers for Sweatshops," Sunday NYT,2000 RESERVE
  Nov 15 Gordon and Turner, pp. 60-78; 179-201 TEXT
Week Eight   HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR Tutorial  
  Nov 20 Burtless Ch. 7, pp. 127-150 TEXT
  Culpepper, "The Future of the High Wage Equilibrium in Germany," Oxford Review, Spr 1999 Reserve
  PROBLEM SET # 3; Tutorial; Answer Set WEB
  Nov 22 Thanksgiving Holiday--Eat Well!  
Week Nine   IMMIGRATION POLICY  
  Nov 27 Jacobsen, Part 1: Chs. 3-5, pp. 48-106 TEXT
  Nov 29 Jacobsen, Part III: Chs. 10-11 pp. 217- 250 TEXT
  Problem Set # 4 WEB
Week Ten   GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP  
  Dec 4 Forum on Sweatshops  
  Gordon and Turner; Ch. 12 pp. 238-255 TEXT
  Dec 6 Jacobsen, Part IV Chs. 14-15, pp. 285-333 TEXT
Week Eleven   THE END IS NEAR  
  Dec 11 Jacobsen: Part V, CHs. 16, 17, 19 p. 341-387; 402-428: Study Guide; Final Quiz TEXT

 

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 Last Updated:

10/29/01

Contact the instructor at: jacoby@u.washington.edu