POL 6050 Labor Markets and Welfare State

This course examines the role of national and state policies in regulating labor conditions, in creating and defending workplace rights for the employed, and in providing and managing subsistence rights and job training for the unemployed. It also examines the roles of non-governmental actors who influence government policy, such as economic theorists, employers, business and professional organizations, and associations of self-employed workers. The ways in which labor markets constitute systems of labor disciplines as well as systems for the racial, ethnic and gendered allocation of differential opportunities for economic well-being are explored, as is the historical relationship between social welfare and labor markets.
Credits: 3.0