proposed
Instructors & Readings (by page numbers)
Labor History sessions
UAW region 1-C credit program, semester #1, cohort #2
Fall Semester, 2002, Lansing, MI
1. Sept. 12; Hoffman: Registration/intros and
Revitte: "Overview of US & MI labor history and field"--FCtoKzoo video,
overheads & handouts, & in-class Working Det, 2-16 & Hard Work, 1-33
2. Sept. 19; Revitte: "Labor's early years to WWI 's Impact on LIR, Unions & Labor Politics"
-- Inheritance video excerpts and student assigned readings =
Hard Work, 41-56, 66-76, 105-25; and Labor's Heritage, pp. 24-35
3. Sept. 26; Hoffman: "The 1920s & the Growth of the Auto Industry & Unions"
-- readings = Working Det, 18-50 and handouts
4. Oct. 3; Hoffman: "The Depression and the Rise of the UAW, CIO & Sit-downs"
-- readings = Working Det, 52-90 and handouts
5. Oct. 10; Beck: "The Wagner Act: A New Labor Law and Industrial Relations"
-- readings = Labor Law, 11-25 & 75-95 and handouts
6. Oct. 17; Hoffman: "The New UAW and CIO Experience Growing Pains"
-- readings = Working Det, 91-110 & Hard Work, 130-47 & handouts
7. Oct. 24; Revitte: "World War II Changes Work, LIR, Unions & Labor Politics"
Inheritance and Rosie the Riveter video excerpts -- assigned readings =
Working Det, 112-36; Hard Work, 151-67 & Labor Heritage, 36-49
8. Oct. 31; Revitte: "Vietnam War and More Changes in LIR, Unions & Labor Politics"
Inheritance, HHH &/or APRI video excerpts -- assigned readings =
-- Labor Heritage, 51-65 and Hard Work, 201-31 and handouts
9. Nov. 7; Beck: "Post-WW II Strikes, Red Scares and LMRA & LMRDA Impacts"
-- readings = Working Det, 137-143 & 148-54 and
Labor Law, 25- 46 and handouts
10. Nov 14; Fine: "Labor Reaches Out to Blacks and Women Workers"
-- readings = Working Det, 143-47 and 156-78 and handouts
11. Nov 21; Hoffman: "Labor Confronts Technology & Organizes Public Workers"
-- readings = Working Det, 180-208; Hard Work, 179-98; and handouts
12. Nov. 28; Thanksgiving Break
13. Dec. 5; Beck: "Labor Confronts a Hostile Economy, Law and Employers"
-- readings = Working Det, 210-41; & Labor Law,1-10, 47-73 & 97-101
14. Dec. 12 Final Exam
NOTE from JR: (I can help finish this up but I don't know how Beck & Hoffman want to actually divide up the non-JR sessions or if either wants listed any videos or who covers what Working Detroit and Labor Law pages, which can be done differently, or as I've suggested… so I can finish this up for students, per request, after hearing decision(s))
Texts:
Melvin Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press
(2000) $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-252-06868-8).
Steve Babson, Working Detroit, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press (originally NY: Adama 1984)
(2002 ?) $ ??.?? paper (ISBN 0-8143-1819-3).
"US Labor in Times of War," Labor's Heritage, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter/Spring 2002),
$5.95 paper (ISSN 1041-5904).
Richard Block, et al., Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice, Kalamazoo, MI:
W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Relations (1996), $ ??.?? paper (ISBN 0-88099-163-1).
jrevitte---8/6/02