Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

ICS-0256

Organization's ID:

SSC200

Organization:

Penn Foster College

Location:

Classroom-based

Length:

1 year, 52 weeks

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Social Science

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide an introduction to the labor movement if the United States allowing them to reflect on the workings, history and challenges of organized labor activities specific to the U.S. workforce.

Learning Outcomes:

Identify and explain the main characteristics of the post-World-War II economic order
Explain the major factors that guided our economic system into an era of hyper-competitiveness and deregulation, and discuss the effects of this trend on work and the worker
Identify and explain the ways in which the labor law reflected the values of free market principles and private property rights, and discuss the effects of those trends on work and workers
Explain the ways in which the values of free market and employer property rights have affected workers' rights and working conditions and shaped managerial practices
Discus the ways in which these altered managerial practices have affected workers' rights and working conditions
Discuss and explain the ways in which the original intent of the Wagner Act was adulterated in favor of conservative resistance backed by corporate interests
Identify and explain the forms of discrimination and abuse experienced in the workplace

General Topics:

Post-World War economic order characteristics of the labor market, how hyper-competitiveness and deregulation affected the labor market, original and unattended intent of the Wagner Act, the role of managerial practices and the affect these have on the labor market, and discrimination in the U.S. labor market

Instruction & Assessment