Work and unemployment
Topics
Transformation of the workplace. Power in the work-place. Automation of the professional classes.
Unemployment as a social problem. How to prepare oneself for the workplace. The role of governments in education.
The transformation of work during the Industrial Revolution.
Why do people work so much? Alternatives to work.
Read
Frayne, David. “Towards a Post-Work Society"
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Frayne-2016-Towards-a-Post-Work-Society
Tokumitsu, “In the name of love,” 2014
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Tokumitsu-2014-In-the-Name-of-Love
Watch
Mona Mourshed, Solving global youth unemployment
Aaron Bastani, "Fully automated luxury Communism"
Listen
Activities
POLS 531, Intro and setup
Markets and human needs
Stone Age economics
The state and the economy
Financial institutions
The state and market failure
Economic growth
Mid-term exam
Bayram
Poverty and inequality
Work and unemployment
Consumer society
Surveillance capitalism
Final exam