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Book Reviews

Each student will be assigned a book and will be responsible for writing a book review and for leading the class discussion. The primary task of a good book review is to describe the book's objectives, content, and approach, and to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. The book report will likely be about four pages in length.

Here are some sample book reviews:

  • Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Evolution of Work
  • Just Work
  • The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace

     

    Student Book Review Schedule

    1.September 29
    October 4
    The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First
    Jeffrey Pfeffer, 1998
    Austin

    2.October 4
    October 6
    Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry
    Guillermo J. Grenier, 1988
     

    3.October 11 We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction
    Susan Eisenberg, 1999
    Lisa

    4.October 13 The Second Shift
    Arlie Russell Hochschild, 2003
    Brittany

    5.October 13 Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution
    Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley, 2002
    Christian

    6.October 18 Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
    Larry Tye, 2004
    Katrina

    7.October 20 The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
    Timothy J. Minchin, 2001
    Leah

    8.October 27 Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown
    Robert Bruno, 1999
    Heidi

    9.November 3 High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
    Carla Freeman, 2000
     

    10.November 8 Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
    Jane L. Collins, 2003
    Brenda

    11.November 10 The Job Training Charade
    Gordon Lafer, 2002
    Reid

    12.November 10 Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace
    Jackie Krasas Rogers, 2000
    Jenna

    13.November 15 Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America
    Jonathan D. Rosenblum, 1998
    Tim

    14.November 29 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
    Angela

    15.December 1 Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor
    Andrew Ross, 2004
    Dave

    16.December 1 Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
    Kevin Bales, 2000
    Adam

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