Week 5 Discussion Society

Week 5

Part 1

6. (video, 25 minutes)
7. (text and short videos)

Part 2

1. (text and two 5-minute videos)
2. (video, 3 minutes)
4. (video, 1:30 minutes)

Part 3

6. (video, 3 minutes)
7. (video, 5:20 minutes)
10. (video, 3:40 minutes)

Part 4

Part 5

1. GPCC, chapter two, The laborer in the culture of capitalism (pages 47 to end [from Outsourcing to the end])

Discuss one labor/employment example from the web-linked assignments in terms of the characteristics of the working class.

According to GPCC, describe outsourcing and the labor movement; the creation of free labor; the segmentation of the workforce; control and discipline; and resistance and rebellion. Give an example of each.

Use the above concepts to describe one labor/employment example (from parts one to eight).

Describe The ghost of precarity in employment. Give examples from the web-linked assignments.

What is the “Big feminist policy idea for labor?

250 word minimum; no maximum word count. Display the word count at the end of your post.