Work and the Global Economy

Overview

The Work and the Global Economy specialization offers an understanding of social processes embedded in production, consumption, and distribution of goods, services, and economic rewards. Faculty in the area study social relations and behavior in workplaces and markets, their relationship to inequality across class, gender, race/ethnicity and space, and the interplay between these processes and the broader global economic, political, and cultural context.

Graduate Courses

• Work and Industry (SOC 752): examines the historical evolution of worker control techniques, their influence on individuals’ psychological well-being, and the nature and impact of worker resistance. Special emphasis is placed on class, gender, race and global disparities.
• Economic Sociology (SOC 754): explores how economic actors, institutions, and processes are embedded in social networks and operate in distinct global, historical, and cultural contexts. The class focuses on how this embeddedness ultimately structures power and inequality in markets.
• Global Institutions and Markets (SOC 755): examines the dynamics of the global production processes, focusing in particular how they shape and are shaped by globalization, neoliberalism, and other important aspects of their organizational, political, cultural, and natural environments. 

Faculty