Schedule
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Monday, August 30 First day of class.
WORK & PRECARITY Wednesday, September 1 Standing, Guy. 2014. "The Precariat." Contexts 13(4): 10-12. Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2020. "The Hustle Economy". Dissent 67(4): 19-25.
Monday, September 6 Labor Day: class canceled.
Wednesday, September 8 "Decline in Immigration Threatens Growth of Regions on the Rise," New York Times, August 10, 2011. Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chaps. 1, 3. Carré, Françoise and Chris Tilly. 2017. "Comparing Retail Jobs in the United States and Europe." Pp. 111-156 in Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
THEORIZING THE NEW ECONOMY Monday, September 13 Bell, Daniel. 1999. Pp. ix-xx, xxxii-li, lxi-lxix, 112-119, 123-142, 212-262, 374-378 in The Coming of Post-Industrial-Society, Special Anniversary Ed. New York: Basic Books.
Wednesday, September 15 Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 2. Jessop, Bob. 2006. "Post Fordism." In Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, edited by Bryan S. Turner. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. "California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices,"New York Times, September 6, 2021.
Monday, September 20 First take-home exam due. Discussion: Will robots take our jobs?
THE SILICON VALLEY PARADIGM Wednesday, September 22 Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 1-6.
Monday, September 27 Nevarez, Leonard. 2003. "Centers of the New Industrial Space." Chap. 2 in New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy. New York: Routledge. Zukin, Sharon. 2020. "Accelerators, Startups, and the Circulation of Capital." Chap. 4 in The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy. New York: Oxford University Press. Bannerjee, Pallavi and Lina Rincón. 2019. "Trouble in Tech Paradise." Contexts 18(2): 24-29.
POLARIZING LABOR Wednesday, September 29 MacGillis, Fulfillment, Introduction and chap. 1. Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 4.
Monday, October 4 "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace," New York Times, August 15, 2015. MacGillis, Fulfillment, chaps. 2-7.
Wednesday, October 6 MacGillis, Fulfillment, chaps. 8-9.
WHAT (AND WHERE) IS A GOOD JOB? Monday, October 11 Second take-home exam due. Discussion: what does a good job look like after the pandemic? "Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got 'Greedy,'" New York Times, April 26, 2019. Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 6.
Wednesday, October 13 Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 7-8. Paul Krugman, "The Gentrification of Blue America," New York Times, August 27, 2021. "Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters," New York Times, July 26, 2021. "Will Remote Workers Get Left Behind in the Hybrid Office?" New York Times, August 5, 2021.
SPRING BREAK: October 18-22
Monday, October 25 Woldoff & Litchfield, Digital Nomads: Introduction, chaps. 1-2, pp. 79-92, chaps. 4-5. "Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back," New York Times, July 15, 2021. "Co-Working Spaces Are Back. And There Are Many, Many Options," New York Times, July 15, 2021.
Wednesday, October 27 Interview assignment due. Anne Helen Peterson, “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation,” Buzzfeed, January 5, 2019. Anne Helen Peterson, “This Pandemic is Not Your Vacation,” Buzzfeed, March 31, 2020.
PLATFORM CAPITALISM Monday, November 1 Chase, Robin. 2015. Chaps. 1-5 in Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs.
Wednesday, November 3 Gawer, Annabelle and Nick Srnicek. 2021. Chaps. 1-3 in Online Platforms: Economic and Societal Effects. Brussels: European Parliament. "How Big Tech Won the Pandemic," New York Times, April 30, 2021.
THE ATTENTION ECONOMY Monday, November 8 "What the 'Creator Economy' Promises—and What It Actually Does," New Yorker, July 17, 2021. Ritzer, George. 2019. “Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the ‘New’ Prosumer. Pp. 75-93 in The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, edited by Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press. Duffy, Brooke Erin, Annika Pinch, Shruti Sannon and Megan Sawey. 2021. “The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media.” Social Media + Society April-June: 1-12. DOI: 10.1177/20563051211021368.
Wednesday, November 10 In-class work on team presentation.
Monday, November 15 Give team presentations in class.
Wednesday, November 17 Read other teams' essays. Student rankings of team presentations due.
Monday, November 22 Individual briefs on team presentations due.
Wednesday, November 24
THANKSGIVING: Thursday, November 25
CHALLENGING THE NEW ECONOMY Monday, November 29 Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2020. "Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 6(4): 441-449.
Wednesday, December 1 Mould, Against Creativity: Introduction, chaps. 1-4.
Monday, December 6
Wednesday, December 8 Last day of class.
Sunday, December 12 (last day of study period) Third take-home exam due. |