assignment

  1. What is your opinion of unions?
  2. What is your parents or a family member position of unions?
  3. What position does most companies take on unions? How to they argue for or against them?
  4. How do unions shape labor conditions? Also, why do you think union membership in the U.S. is so low?

Readings:

  • Bowe, John. 2008. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. New York, NY: Random House. Chapter Two: Tulsa
  • Yates, Michael. 2009. Why Unions Matter. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press. Pp. 31-67 (online)