Spring 2017 - LBST 311 D100
Labour and the Environment (3)
Class Number: 1007
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Thu, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
John-Henry Harter
1 778 782-6878
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Prerequisites:
Strongly recommended: LBST 101 and 30 credit hours.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
The changing relationships between unions and environmental groups; how work in various industries contribute to climate change; and how climate-change policies affect workers in different ways. The consequences of climate policies for different categories of workers, identified by economic sector, geographic location, gender, ethnicity, and Aboriginal status.
COURSE DETAILS:
In this course, we will examine the nature of work and the environmetn in North America with a focus on Canada. In particular, we will examine how the issue of climate change has significant impacts on teh nature of work and working peopel. we will start by examining the historic elationship between labour and the environment and move on to an examination of how workers and the issue of class has been both included and excluded in the mainstream enviornmental discourse. This course will also examine how discussions around climate change often exclude workers. we eill think critically aboutthe intersection of labour and the environment and how this informs responses to a warming world.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
The course will draw on students' experiences and research, adn we will develop research, writing and presentations skills through the class assignments. In addition, lectures, tutorial discussions, films, and guest speakers will provide the tools we need to understand the increasingly complex world of work and the environment with a focus on climate change.
Upon successfully completing this courses, students will:
-Gain an understanding of the major components of the relationship between work and climate;
-Understand the ways humans are influencing the climate;
-Develop an understanding for the complex interactions between workers, the environment, and the geopolitical impolications of climate change in particular for Canada.
-Be familiar with solutions put forward by te labour movement and the environmental movement and to be able to cricially assess tese different perspectives on climate change.
-Engage in critical discussions on a number of important and controversial topics related to labour, the environment, and climate change.
Grading
- Seminiar Participation (weekly participation and attendance) 15%
- Short Assignments (in class and short assignments) 20%
- Research Outline (outline for research paper) 5%
- Presentations (presentations on research topic) 20%
- Essay (research paper) 40%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Washington DC: Island Press, 2005).
Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000) 3rd edition.
Carla Lipsig-Mumme and Stephen McBride eds. Work in a Warming World (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press; Kingston: School of Policy studies, Queens University, 2015).
Registrar Notes:
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