Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1
2
10
11
August 24
September 3
3
4
5
10
10
12
September 15
September 25
October 5
Closes
Topic
September 2
Workers and Unions
September 14
U.S. Labor and Working Class History
September 7 is the Labor Day holiday
September 24
Workers Issues
October 4
Race and Gender in the Workplace
October 16
Analyzing a Labor Conflict: A.E. Staley
In addition to the texts, there are web-based articles, electronic reserve reading, and web-based videos
located in the Compass Reading and Videos folders in each segment.
ASSIGNMENTS
There are 375 possible points in this course. Four exams are worth 100 points (25 points each),
the Class Process Test is worth 5 points, the Family History paper is worth 15 points, the Final
Exam is worth 80 points, and participation in the 10 Discussion Forums is worth 150 points (15
points per forum).
Segment Assignment
All
1
1
2
2
3
4
5
5
5
Date Opens
Discussion Forums
Class Process Test
Exam 1
Family History Paper
Exam 2
Practice Test
Exam 3
Extra Credit Paper
Exam 4
Final Exam
A+ 98% 343-350
A
93% 325-342
A- 90% 315-324
Date Closes
B+ 88% 308-314
B 83% 290-307
B- 80% 280-289
C+ 78% 273-279
C 73% 255-272
C- 70% 245-254
Points
150
5
25
15
25
0
25
(15)
25
__80
350
D+ 68% 238-244
D 63% 220-237
D- 60% 210-219
F
000-209
For details on exams, papers, extra credit papers, and forum grading please read the Class
Process file.
SEGMENT 2
U.S. LABOR AND WORKING CLASS HISTORY
Thursday, September 3 to Monday, September 14 (11 days)
September 7 is the Labor Day Holiday
Reading:
Text: Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 in The Unfinished Struggle
Lessons of U.S. Labor History
Solidarity Forever lyrics
Links to numerous U.S. labor history websites
Videos:
Haymarket, 1886 (PBS, 5 minutes)
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911 (2 minutes)
San Francisco General Strike, 1934 (PBS, 3 minutes)
Optional: The 1912 Bread and Roses Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike (6
minutes)
Optional: Flint auto sit-down strikes (excerpt from PBS film Walter Reuther and the
Rise of the United Auto Workers, 15 minutes)
Optional: 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, Republic Steel strike (Illinois Labor History
Society, 10 minutes)
Assignments:
Take Exam 2, covering material in Segment 2, by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 14
The Family History paper is due in Assignments by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 14
Discussion Forums:
2A: Labor Leaders in American History
2B: Lessons of Labor and Working Class History
SEGMENT 3
WORKERS ISSUES
Tuesday, September 15 to Thursday, September 24 (10 days)
Reading:
Text: Preface, Prologue, and Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in Staley
You Have The Right To Remain Silent: Freedom of Speech in the Workplace, chapter 1
in Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace by Lewis
Maltby [Electronic reserve]
AFL-CIO website on workers issues (read the sections under Get Informed)
Building the Middle Class website on retirement, health care, sick leave, family leave,
minimum wage, earned income tax credit, etc.)
The American Middle Class Under Stress, a 2011 New America Foundation report (20
pages of charts and graphs)
Poverty Tour
Working Group on Extreme Inequality website
Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on Lost Decade, September 13, 2011 New York Times
The World's Most Worker-Friendly Countries, in 7 Charts, January 7, 2015 Citylab
Inequality, Unbelievably, Gets Worse, by Steven Rattner (opinion piece with many
charts), November 16, 2014 New York Times
Optional: Text: Chapter 5 in The Unfinished Struggle
4
Video:
Bill Moyers Show: L.A. Labor (PBS, 14 minutes)
Assignments:
Early in the segment take the Practice Test on employment and labor laws. Then return
to the exam, read the correct answers and comments, do the assigned reading, and post to
Forum 3A.
Discussion Forums:
3A: Employment Law and Workers Rights
3B: Contemporary Workers Issues
SEGMENT 4
RACE AND GENDER IN THE WORKPLACE
Friday, September 25 to Sunday, October 4 (10 days)
Reading:
Text: Chapter 11 The African American Workers and pages 286-288 in Staley
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on racial harassment
AFL-CIO website on fighting for civil rights (explore this website)
EEOC on sexual harassment
AFL-CIO website on the fight for working womens rights (explore this website)
The United Electrical workers union on fighting racial harassment on the job
The AFSCME union on fighting sexual harassment on the job
Racial harassment still infecting the workplace, January 13, 2008 MSNBC
One in Four U.S. Women Reports Workplace Harassment, November 16, 2011 ABC
News
It's now much easier to be harassed at work, July 1, 2013 Chicago Tribune
Who still can't sit at America's table, by Prof. Stephanie Coontz, February 11, 2014
CNN
When Living on Tips Means Putting Up With Harassment, October 17, 2014 New York
Times
A Grope and a Shrug: Dov Charney, American Apparel and Sexual Harassment,
opinion piece, June 30, 2014 New York Times
Students File Complaints on Sexual Assaults at Columbia University, April 24, 2014
New York Times
Survivors Share Experiences of Sexual Assault in the Military, March 13, 2013 PBS
report
Videos:
Is Your Daughter Safe at Work? (PBS, 26 minutes); and read some of the
accompanying articles on the website
Shopping While Black (ABC News, 7 minutes); and read the accompanying article
Assignment:
Take Exam 3, covering material in Segments 3 and 4, by 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 4
Discussion Forums:
4A: Race in the Workplace
4B: Gender in the Workplace
SEGMENT 5
ANALYZING A LABOR CONFLICT: A.E. STALEY
Monday, October 5 to Friday, October 16 (12 days)
Reading:
Text: Chapters 4-10 and 12-20 in Staley
More Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions, by Steven Greenhouse, January 22, 2012
New York Times
Videos:
Deadly Corn (25 minutes)
Struggle in the Heartland (25 minutes)
The Gathering Storm (optional, 25 minutes)
Dan Lane at the AFL-CIO Convention (optional, 25 minutes)
Assignments:
The Extra Credit paper on teachers is due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 16
Take Exam 4, covering material in Segment 5, by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 16
The Final Exam, covering all course material, is open from 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 20.
Discussion Forums:
5A: Picket Lines in Strikes and Lock-outs
5B: Lessons of the Staley Labor Conflict