Proposals for Action on Workplace Inequality
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Final Paper- Proposals for Action on Workplace Inequality
For your final paper, you will read proposals from the readings in Week Six and review the rest of the readings from the course to evaluate what public policy actions might help address the forms of inequality in the workplace that we have discussed throughout the course.
Your paper should be three to four pages (900-1200 words) with endnotes citing to the readings supporting points you make, including page numbers. Use the APA style guide for citing sources within your paper. See
http://libguides.lehman.edu/c.php?g=579429&p=3999110
In your paper you should address the following points:
Based on the readings, what do you think are the most important sources of inequality in the workplace?
What policies might be both practical and effective in addressing those sources of inequality?
Will the policies you propose increase fairness within the workplace between workers of different races, genders, ages and other characteristics or will they also decrease overall inequality between the wealthy and workers as a whole? What do you think are the major obstacles and challenges in implementing the policies you support?
Please start with a compelling opening paragraph laying our the key points your essay will address, then follow with arguments and evidence that support the main themes you lay out in that opening paragraph.
Week Six - Readings on Proposals for Change
This week we will read a number of essays making concrete proposals to address the inequality in the workplace that we have studied throughout the course.
Kim Voss and Rick Fantasia describe proposals for strengthening labor unions and their effectiveness in addressing challenges to inequality in the workplace in “Practices and Possibilities of a Social Movement Unionism,” which is part of their book Hard Work: Remaking the Labor Movement on pp. 120-159.
Michael Omi and Howard Winant lay out the challenges of broadly addressing the challenges of racial inequality in their work. See pp. 242-251 in their section Trajectories of Racial Politics
Alyssa DavisandElise Gould lay out an agenda for Closing the pay gap and beyond for gender inequality in the workplace in an Economic Policy Institute report.
On globalization, Eric Loomis lays out A Left Vision for Trade in Dissent Magazine.
In looking at big data and inequality, Newman lays out arguments for supporting collective action in the workplace as a strategy on pp. 21-34 of UnMarginalizing
Workers: How Big Data Drives Lower Wages and How Reframing Labor Law Can Restore
Information Equality in the Workplace
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