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ILRLR 1100
Introduction to U.S. Labor History

Introductory survey covering the major changes in the nature of work, the workforce, and the institutions involved in industrial relations from the late 19th century to the present. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14030 ILRLR 1100   LEC 001

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    • TR Ives Hall 217

    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

  • 14176 ILRLR 1100   DIS 211

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    • F Ives Hall 215

    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

  • 14177 ILRLR 1100   DIS 212

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    • F Ives Hall 215

    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

  • 14178 ILRLR 1100   DIS 213

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    • F Ives Hall 215

    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14031 ILRLR 1100   LEC 002

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  • 14179 ILRLR 1100   DIS 221

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  • 14180 ILRLR 1100   DIS 222

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  • 14181 ILRLR 1100   DIS 223

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ILRLR 1845
American Capitalism

This course studies the history of American capitalism. It helps you to answer these questions: What is capitalism? Is the U.S. more capitalist than other countries? How has capitalism shaped the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1540, HIST 1540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16764 ILRLR 1845   LEC 001

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  • Please contact Judy (jly5) in history if you are interested in this class.

  • 16767 ILRLR 1845   DIS 201

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  • 16768 ILRLR 1845   DIS 202

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  • 16769 ILRLR 1845   DIS 203

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  • 16770 ILRLR 1845   DIS 204

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  • 16771 ILRLR 1845   DIS 205

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  • 16772 ILRLR 1845   DIS 206

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  • 16773 ILRLR 1845   DIS 207

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  • 16774 ILRLR 1845   DIS 208

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  • 16775 ILRLR 1845   DIS 209

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  • 18239 ILRLR 1845   DIS 210

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  • 18240 ILRLR 1845   DIS 211

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ILRLR 2010
Labor and Employment Law

Survey and analysis of the law governing labor relations and employee rights in the workplace. Half of the course examines the legal framework in which collective bargaining takes place, including union ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14032 ILRLR 2010   LEC 001

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  • Enrollment restricted to ILR Sophomores during the pre-enrollment period.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14033 ILRLR 2010   LEC 002

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14268 ILRLR 2010   LEC 003

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  • Enrollment restricted to ILR Sophomores during the pre-enrollment period.

ILRLR 2050
Labor Relations

Comprehensive introduction to industrial and labor relations and collective bargaining in the United States; the negotiation, scope, and day-to-day administration of contracts; the major substantive issues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14034 ILRLR 2050   LEC 001

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ILRLR 2060
Writing Seminar in Law

Topics change depending on semester and instructor. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Law and Society

  • 17238 ILRLR 2060   SEM 101

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  • This course examines the experiences of workers attempting to navigate the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy. We begin by reviewing the conditions of post-industrial labor in an era of declining unionization and weak federal and state protections. Next we review theories of legal consciousness and legal mobilization, which help explain the conditions under which low-wage workers learn about their rights and come forward to demand justice. We walk through claimsmaking in an array of federal and state administrative bureaucracies, including wage and hour, health and safety, and discrimination. We also look at how the immigration enforcement regime intersects with the tenets of at-will employment to grant employers wide latitude in retaliating against undocumented workers and stifling attempts at legal mobilization. We next assess how these formal protections are filtered through various institutional gatekeepers (including legal advocates and medical experts) and how organizational compliance structures (such as human resources and mediation programs) have limited workers’ ability to make claims on their rights. We consider how intersecting bases of inequality (such as gender, race, and national origin) are processed by administrative bureaucracies, and how lay versus legal conceptions of workplace justice often diverge. We end by considering the fallout of workplace abuse on individuals and their families.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Disability and Ethics

  • 14170 ILRLR 2060   SEM 102

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  • This sophomore writing seminar considers questions of ethics and justice in thinking through contemporary issues in law and everyday practice concerning people with disabilities and the disability experience, including discrimination in the workplace, education, and public sphere. Beginning with an interrogation of the relationship between the law and ethics, we will then explore the history of disability policy and law, and in doing so, closely examine the implications of a number of Supreme Court decisions. We will conclude by evaluating global perspectives on the contemporary state as well as future of disability rights, particularly as they intersect with bioethical debates. As a writing-intensive seminar, this course will allow for the development of critical thought and reasoning in both oral and written communication. Fulfills the ILR Advanced Writing Requirement. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores or others with permission who have not satisfied their ILR Advanced Writing Requirement.

ILRLR 2070
Writing Seminar in History

Topics change depending on semester and instructor. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Work and Nature in American History

  • 17240 ILRLR 2070   SEM 101

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  • Human labor has the capacity to drastically alter nature in all its various forms. Labor's power in this regard is perhaps best demonstrated in the process of human induced climate change. Nature, however, was never a neutral foundation on which the systems and structures of American capitalism were built. Nature reacts to labor and forces it to change. An important part of American history is the story of the changing ways that workers probed nature to find out how value could be squeezed from it and how nature reacted to this exploitation. The readings and discussions in this class will focus on how people and systems have attempted to make nature valuable and the obstacles they encountered in the process. We will begin this class by reading several works of theory that can be used as a lens through which to read the rest of the semester's material. The course will then move slowly through the history of work and nature in America from the pre-Columbian time to the present. Throughout this course, students will be expected to think critically and creatively about the meaning of work and nature in an historical context.

ILRLR 3035
Special Topics in Labor Relations

Undergraduate seminar whose topic changes depending on semester and instructor. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 6080

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Organizing & the Next City: Land, Labor Capital

  • 14211 ILRLR 3035   LEC 001

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    • M Ives Hall 108
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Bartley, A

  • This course will exam a range of social science data applications in non-academic settings in the social sector. We will engage a range of perspectives, including: • Labor unions (union campaign strategy) • Policy think tanks (policy advocacy) • Social service organizations (grant funding) • Government sector (policy analysis and accountability) • Social movement organizations (strategic narrative framing) • Legal advocacy (impact litigation and cause lawyering) among others. We will consider the ways in which traditional academic research methods translate into these needs, and how they fundamentally differ. We will draw on the experiences of practitioners in these fields and students will be expected to carry out a pilot project accordingly.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ILRLR 6080

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: The Gig Economy and the 21st Century

  • 18584 ILRLR 3035   LEC 002

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    • M Ives Hall 108
    • Mar 11 - May 7, 2019

    • Pearce, M

  • The Gig Economy and the 21st Century: Labor Rights for the Changing U.S. Workforce (and how the “Empire strikes back”) How should the National Labor Relations Act, an 84-year-old statute, be applied to the 21st century workforce? Former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Mark Gaston Pearce, will explore this question in this course, which will examine key cases and challenges faced by the Obama era NLRB. Under Chairman Pearce’s leadership, the NLRB issued many decisions expanding labor rights to fit the realities of the modern day workforce in cases involving joint employer status, independent contractors, the contingent workforce, immigrant workers, university faculty, grad students and student athletes. The course will explore these issues, as well as the reemergence of protected concerted activity in this era of technological advancement, electronic communication and social media. The course will also examine the “Trump effect” on the Obama era NLRB decisions.

ILRLR 3040
Special Topics in Labor History

Undergraduate seminar whose topic changes depending on semester and instructor. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: The Changing Community-Labor Connection

  • 17259 ILRLR 3040   LEC 001

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  • Recent community-labor collaborations to create new forms of collective representation have received considerable attention – and rightly so, since they have succeeded in reforming neoliberal modes of governing labor markets and workplaces. This course contextualizes these bottom-up innovations, by surveying the historical development of the intersection between community organizing and labor organizing. To understand the changing nature of the community-labor connection, we will examine successive case studies – from New England’s mill towns to Seattle’s ‘Fight for Fifteen’. We will use these cases not just to clarify the range of factors shaping the community-labor relationship across varying locales, but also to identify historical patterns in the resources that organizers drew upon and the constraints they faced in building solidarity within communities and among workers. Ultimately, our survey will highlight the recurrence of the community-labor connection throughout U.S. labor history, and the connection’s vital role in successive movements to democratize U.S. political economy.

ILRLR 3045
Special Topics in Labor Law

Undergraduate seminar whose topic changes depending on semester and instructor. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 6080

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Thwarting the Dream of Brown v. Board of Ed

  • 14413 ILRLR 3045   LEC 001

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    • TR Ives Hall 112
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Adler, L

  • While the Brown decision seemed to end de jure segregation in America, a series of court cases and continuing housing, lending and other nationwide policies interfered with our Nation’s ability to end de facto segregation. This course will critically examine US and state Supreme Court decisions and civil rights commentary to try and understand what happened after the historic 1954 Brown decision in order to understand why many observers believe we are still more than less a segregated society.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 6045

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Why is there Such Turblence in Pub Sector Empl Law

  • 14394 ILRLR 3045   LEC 002

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    • TR Ives Hall 112
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Adler, L

  • This new course will document how political forces expressed mostly as court decisions have re-shaped the unionized public sector workplace in the last decade. Attacks on teacher seniority, challenges to the viability of decent wages for our health care workers, and manifold restrictions on the financial well-being of all public sector unions comprise this set of strategies. We will use high level state and federal court decisions, public policy papers, and a varied set of guests to explain this phenomena and ask, What will happen now?

ILRLR 3055
Rhetoric of the Labor Movement

This course equips students to use different modes of rhetorical analysis to examine historical and contemporary artifacts in critical ways.  Grading is based on class participation, tests and a final ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 14246 ILRLR 3055   LEC 001

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ILRLR 3071
Governing Economic Development: The U.S. Experience

Surveys the history of U.S. Economic development from the perspective of the governance structures created to organize and control economic activity, emphasizing the changing regulatory roles of public ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17261 ILRLR 3071   LEC 001

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ILRLR 3300
Argumentation and Debate

Students learn the principles of argumentation and debate. Topics emphasize Internet database research, synthesis of collected data, policy analysis of evidentiary quality, refutation of counter claims, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 14185 ILRLR 3300   LEC 001

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  • 14187 ILRLR 3300   DIS 201

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  • 14188 ILRLR 3300   DIS 202

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  • 14189 ILRLR 3300   DIS 203

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  • 14190 ILRLR 3300   DIS 204

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  • 14191 ILRLR 3300   DIS 205

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  • 14192 ILRLR 3300   DIS 206

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  • 14193 ILRLR 3300   DIS 207

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  • 14194 ILRLR 3300   DIS 208

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  • 14195 ILRLR 3300   DIS 209

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  • 14196 ILRLR 3300   DIS 210

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ILRLR 3830
Workers' Rights as Human Rights

This course, a distance learning endeavor with the International Labor Organization in Geneva, examines U.S. domestic labor law and policy using internationally accepted human rights principles as standards ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17262 ILRLR 3830   LEC 001

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ILRLR 3870
The History of Consumption: From Wedgwood to Wal-Mart

Whether buying at a general store, shopping at a department store, or loitering at a mall, consumption has always formed an important part of the American experience. More than just commodities bought ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3870, HIST 3870

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18045 ILRLR 3870   LEC 001

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ILRLR 3880
Unfree Labor: Servants, Slaves, and Wives

Examines various forms of unfree labor, mostly in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) era in the United States. Will look at the situation of indentured servants and apprentices, African slaves, and wives of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14248 ILRLR 3880   LEC 001

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ILRLR 4023
Disability and Employment Policy

Provides an overview of a range of public policies regarding the employment of people with disabilities. Students are introduced to the historical development of disability public policy and to contemporary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First. 

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14406 ILRLR 4023   LEC 001

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    • W Ives Hall 105
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Golden, T

ILRLR 4027
Campus Mediation Practicum

This course is offered to students interested in acquiring the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to mediate interpersonal disputes. In the first segment of the course, students will be introduced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6027, LAW 6027

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14249 ILRLR 4027   LEC 001

    • MW Ives Hall 111

    • Nobles, K

      Scanza, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ILRLR 4029
Campus Mediation Practicum II: Advanced Issues in Restorative Justice

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 6029

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18463 ILRLR 4029   SEM 101

    • W Ives Hall 107
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Scanza, R

  • This course is offered to students interested in furthering their knowledge of the principles and practices of restorative justice. Students will also acquire the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to mediate complex campus disputes. The course considers the needs and roles of key stakeholders (victims, offenders, communities, justice systems) and explores in depth the principles and values of restorative justice. It also identifies challenges to restorative justice - the dangers, the pitfalls – as well as possible strategies to help prevent restorative justice from failing to live up to its promise. Much of the course is organized around the issue of harm and crime within our legal system. However, students will also be exposed to restorative justice in multiple contexts, including issues in higher education.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

ILRLR 4033
Disability Law

This course reviews United States law as it relates to people with disabilities.  The self-advocacy and empowerment movement in America contributes substantially to the broad and significant development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14118 ILRLR 4033   LEC 001

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ILRLR 4035
Intersectionality in Disability Studies

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality has become increasingly key to not only understand the complexity of social identity and lived experience, but to combat discrimination and oppression. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4035

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14632 ILRLR 4035   LEC 001

    • W Ives Hall 103

    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ILRLR 4075
Values, Rights, and Justice at Work

Examination of the often hidden values and assumptions that underlie the contemporary U.S. systems of employment law, work and business, and industrial relations. Classroom discussions and student research ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6070

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17287 ILRLR 4075   LEC 001

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ILRLR 4533
The Lower East Side: Jews and the Immigrant City

American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18292 ILRLR 4533   SEM 101

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ILRLR 4823
Advanced Issues in Mediation

This course is offered to students interested in acquiring thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of mediation as well as the techniques employed by effective mediators. In the first segment of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6023, LAW 6080

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14254 ILRLR 4823   LEC 001

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ILRLR 4842
Fighting Discrimination in the Workplace: Employment Discrimination and the Law

This course explores the role of law in prohibiting employment discrimination based on characteristics that include race, sex, gender, national origin, religion, age, and disability. This study will analyze ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 6840

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17302 ILRLR 4842   LEC 001

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ILRLR 4845
Labor, Race, and Gender

The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4845, FGSS 6845, ILRLR 6845

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17308 ILRLR 4845   LEC 001

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  • The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly Black women and recent immigrants from Latin America. Yet, with the exception of just a handful of unions, the labor movement still has been slow to build on this support and enthusiasm. This course will focus on the challenges and possibilities created by the changing demographics of race and gender in the contemporary labor movement. Through a combination of readings, small group discussions, guest speakers, and library and on line research, short essays and one longer research paper; the course will examine these issues from an historical, demographic, labor relations, and sociological perspective.

ILRLR 4880
American Ideals

The intellectual origins of the American constitution. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14217 ILRLR 4880   LEC 001

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ILRLR 5010
Labor and Employment Law

Survey and analysis of the law governing labor relations and employee rights in the workplace. The first half of the course is devoted to labor law and labor-management relations. It examines the legal ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14036 ILRLR 5010   LEC 001

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ILRLR 5040
The U.S. Industrial Relations System

The course introduces students to basic industrial relations concepts and provides an overview of industrial relations in the United States, but in a comparative context. Our analysis of comparative industrial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18496 ILRLR 5040   LEC 001

  • Taught in NYC. Enrollment limited to students enrolled in the MPS ILR NYC Program.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

ILRLR 6019
Dispute Resolution Practicum

This course has the purpose of linking classroom discussion and analysis of arbitration,  and related dispute resolution techniques with opportunities for students to participate and observe arbitration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6019

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 14037 ILRLR 6019   LEC 001

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ILRLR 6020
The Practice of Labor Arbitration

This course is designed to be an advanced seminar for graduate and undergraduate students who have a serious interest in the practice and profession of labor arbitration. Classroom discussions, group exercise ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second. 

  • 1 Credit GradeNoAud

  • 14599 ILRLR 6020   LEC 001

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    • MTWSu Ives Hall 111
    • Mar 17 - Mar 20, 2019

    • Katz, H

      Scheinman, M

ILRLR 6023
Advanced Issues in Mediation

This course is offered to students interested in acquiring thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of mediation as well as the techniques employed by effective mediators. In the first segment of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4823, LAW 6080

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 14160 ILRLR 6023   SEM 101

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ILRLR 6027
Campus Mediation Practicum

This course is offered to students interested in acquiring the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to mediate interpersonal disputes. In the first segment of the course, students will be introduced ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4027, LAW 6027

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14250 ILRLR 6027   LEC 001

    • MW Ives Hall 111

    • Nobles, K

      Scanza, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ILRLR 6029
Campus Mediation Practicum II: Advanced Issues in Restorative Justice

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 4029

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18464 ILRLR 6029   SEM 101

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    • W Ives Hall 107
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Scanza, R

ILRLR 6045
Special Topics in Labor Law

Graduate seminar whose topic changes depending on semester and instructor. view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 3045

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Why is there Such Turblence in Pub Sector Empl Law

  • 14502 ILRLR 6045   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Ives Hall 112
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Adler, L

  • This new course will document how political forces expressed mostly as court decisions have re-shaped the unionized public sector workplace in the last decade. Attacks on teacher seniority, challenges to the viability of decent wages for our health care workers, and manifold restrictions on the financial well-being of all public sector unions comprise this set of strategies. We will use high level state and federal court decisions, public policy papers, and a varied set of guests to explain this phenomena and ask, What will happen now?

ILRLR 6070
Values, Rights, and Justice at Work

Examination of the often hidden values and assumptions that underlie the contemporary U.S. systems of employment law, work and business, and industrial relations. Classroom discussions and student research ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4075

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17288 ILRLR 6070   LEC 001

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ILRLR 6080
Special Topics in Labor Relations

Topics change depending on semester and instructor. view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 3045

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Thwarting the Dream of Brown v. Board of Ed

  • 14401 ILRLR 6080   LEC 002

  •  
    • TR Ives Hall 112
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Adler, L

  • While the Brown decision seemed to end de jure segregation in America, a series of court cases and continuing housing, lending and other nationwide policies interfered with our Nation’s ability to end de facto segregation. This course will critically examine US and state Supreme Court decisions and civil rights commentary to try and understand what happened after the historic 1954 Brown decision in order to understand why many observers believe we are still more than less a segregated society.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 3035

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Organizing & the Next City: Land, Labor Capital

  • 14212 ILRLR 6080   LEC 003

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    • M Ives Hall 108
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019

    • Bartley, A

  • For the last two decades the U.S. economy has experienced a dramatic growth in precarious employment, including low wage jobs and contingent (or episodic) employment. Examples of precarious employment include the work of day laborers, domestic workers, guest workers and low-wage immigrant workers. Long-term and structural changes in the economy and society have driven this trend. Such changes have included the shift from a manufacturing based- to a service based-economy, implementation of labor-saving business strategies and technologies, the reduction of unionization rates and globalization-triggered immigration. The growth of precarious employment raises broad reaching research and policy questions about the future of work globally. This course will address these questions as well as proposed solutions. Along with studying scholarship on these issues, students will engage in semester-long research projects related to precarious workers in conjunction with the Worker Institute at Cornell.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ILRLR 3035

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: The Gig Economy and the 21st C

  • 18585 ILRLR 6080   LEC 004

  •  
    • M Ives Hall 108
    • Mar 11 - May 7, 2019

    • Pearce, M

  • The Gig Economy and the 21st Century: Labor Rights for the Changing U.S. Workforce (and how the “Empire strikes back”) How should the National Labor Relations Act, an 84-year-old statute, be applied to the 21st century workforce? Former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Mark Gaston Pearce, will explore this question in this course, which will examine key cases and challenges faced by the Obama era NLRB. Under Chairman Pearce’s leadership, the NLRB issued many decisions expanding labor rights to fit the realities of the modern day workforce in cases involving joint employer status, independent contractors, the contingent workforce, immigrant workers, university faculty, grad students and student athletes. The course will explore these issues, as well as the reemergence of protected concerted activity in this era of technological advancement, electronic communication and social media. The course will also examine the “Trump effect” on the Obama era NLRB decisions.

ILRLR 6840
Fighting Discrimination in the Workplace: Employment Discrimination and the Law

This course explores the role of law in prohibiting employment discrimination based on characteristics that include race, sex, gender, national origin, religion, age, and disability. This study will analyze ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4842

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17303 ILRLR 6840   LEC 001

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ILRLR 6845
Labor, Race, and Gender

The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4845, FGSS 6845, ILRLR 4845

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17309 ILRLR 6845   LEC 001

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  • The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly Black women and recent immigrants from Latin America. Yet, with the exception of just a handful of unions, the labor movement still has been slow to build on this support and enthusiasm. This course will focus on the challenges and possibilities created by the changing demographics of race and gender in the contemporary labor movement. Through a combination of readings, small group discussions, guest speakers, and library and on line research, short essays and one longer research paper; the course will examine these issues from an historical, demographic, labor relations, and sociological perspective.

ILRLR 7085
Graduate Writing Seminar

The purpose of this course is to provide students with space to prepare an academic article of publishable or fundable quality. Each student will work on a project related to her/his research, and you ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17333 ILRLR 7085   SEM 101

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  • The purpose of this course is to provide students with space to prepare an academic article of publishable or fundable quality. Each student will work on a project related to her/his research, and you must begin the semester with an outline or draft of a qualifying paper, dissertation chapter, manuscript or funding proposal that you want to develop. Each week will discuss a group of readings focused on the craft of social science writing and go over assigned writing exercises. Key issues we will discuss include: refining research questions, constructing relevant literature reviews, how to leverage empirical evidence to advance your argument effectively, journal selection, responding to reviewers concerns, seeking external funding, and practical tips for writing productivity. You will also be responsible for doing a close reading of a peer’s draft, and facilitating a workshop discussion. Everyone will get a chance to put their writing under the microscope at least once. While the course is geared towards PhD students engaged in academic research and publication, Masters-levels students are also invited to join.

ILRLR 7533
The Lower East Side: Jews and the Immigrant City

American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details

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  • 18293 ILRLR 7533   SEM 101

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ILRLR 9800
Workshop in Labor Relations, Law and History

Provides a forum for the presentation of current research being undertaken by faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Labor Relations, History, and Law, and by invited guests. All M.S. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRIC 9800

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  • 14105 ILRLR 9800   SEM 101

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