SOCL 290 - Sociology of Work and Organizations

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will explore the historical origins of complex organizations, the internal structure and dynamics of organizations, organizations’ interactions with their external environments, and the consequences of particular organizational forms for issues of power and inequality. The course will focus particularly on how changes in organizations, and in the larger political economy, affect the structure and nature of work and the conditions of workers. We will explore how gender, race, and sexuality operate within work organizations. We will also examine how the structure and meaning of work interacts with unpaid and relatively “invisible” work done outside of complex organizations. Not offered on a regular basis.

Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level Sociology course or permission of instructor.