Spring 2025 - LBST 203 D100
Work and Health (3)
Class Number: 2619
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Thu, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Amy Krauss
akrauss@sfu.ca
Office Hours: in person, or zoom (in both cases, by appointment only)
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Prerequisites:
LBST 101 or LBST 100, or permission of the instructor.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Income distribution and conditions of employment are a primary factory in social determinants of health. Even when jobs are available, deteriorating working conditions, wages and benefits, and increasing employment insecurity threaten health for many. Explores work and health in Canada in relation to income, gender, race, migration, and technological change and the legal and policy protections for health and safety in the workplace. Students with credit for LBST 230 under the title "Work and Health" may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
Conditions of employment are a primary factory in social determinants of health. Even when jobs are available, deteriorating working conditions, wages and benefits, and increasing employment insecurity threaten health for many. Explores work and health in relation to income, gender, race, migration, and technological change. Prerequisite: LBST 101 or LBST 100. Students with credit for LBST 230 under the title "Work and Health" may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Students will learn through ethnographic and historical examples how global health inequalities are intertwined with struggles for labor justice. By the end of the course they should gain an understanding not only of how income distribution and unemployment affect health, but more broadly how racial capitalist forms of work exhaust bodies differentially.
Grading
- Attendance and participation 20%
- Film response 20%
- Midterm exam 20%
- Historical research summary 20%
- Ethnographic essay about labor practices and health 20%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
All course materials will be available online through canvas or shared in class.
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.