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SoSe 21: On the Weapon of Organization: Readings on Workers' Organization and Social Movements

Daniel Gutierrez

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What are workers? What is their power? How do they organize? Why is working class organization and political potency so difficult? Using contemporary graduate student struggles in the United States, this course seeks to clarify some of the foundational problems that face working class power and strategy in the current conjuncture. Using the University of California as a case study, students will become familiarized with structural transformations in American political economy over the process of neoliberalization, placing special attention on racialized and gendered dynamics. Students will theorize workers through their relation to power, within and beyond the wage relation, taking careful note of the ways difference cuts through the class. Students will examine a specific organizational process within the broader anti-austerity social movement that followed the financial crisis of 2008 in order to get a grasp on the problems that defined this process and the contingent ways actors attempted to overcome these. Drawing on diverse traditions and literatures, students will at the course’s end be capable of better evaluating social movements, as well as conceptualizing and addressing the problems that workers organization entails. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 10:00 - 12:00 14 Termine

Di, 13.04.2021 10:00 - 12:00

Dozenten:
Daniel Gutierrez