Winter/Spring 2006 / Institute for Labor Studies (UMKC) / ECON 495B/590A (UMKC) -- ECON 3900 (UMSL) – 3 Units

Labor, Power, and Policy in the Global Political Economy

Instructors: Charles Reitz, PhD, Stephen Spartan, Ph.D

Special guests: Morteza Ardebili, Ph.D, and Judy Ancel, Director, Institute of Labor Studies

Course Description:

A global corporatization of the economy has created intensifying inequalities world-wide and much uncertainty about the future of workers and unions in terms of employment and earnings within and between nations. The current restructuring of a globalized capitalism also poses important strategic questions for a fragmented and largely unorganized labor force. Traditional economic explanations have generated such internal inconsistencies that they may be said to no longer apply. This course, unlike most economics courses, links economic and political theory in the analysis of the impact of U.S.-led corporate globalization on workers, their jobs and their unions around the world.

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