GRMT164 PO - Changing Worlds of Work

When Offered: Last offered Spring 2023
Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher
Credit: 1

Work is changing! Everybody talks about it! Based on a blend of texts from history, the social sciences, literature, and the arts, this cultural-studies course offers a survey of how humans have depicted, thought of, and written about work. Why do we work? How do we work? Where and when do we work? Who works? And who has leisure? The course privileges somewhat European and German ideas (Marx, Weber, socialist, class, and gender concepts of work) but includes broad comparative and global contributions. It privileges the psychological, emotional, individual dimension of works as experience, identity, self-worth, and one’s social standing over labor, the large-scale social and economic organization of work for an industry or a nation.