This is a summary of the readings and plans for each class. The readings can be found in your course textbooks, or via links on this site. For more details, read the full syllabus. For an overview, see the Course Map.
Required Books
Jacqueline Goodman, Global Perspectives on Gender & Work. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. Available in the bookstore – also available online as a Kindle book (you can read it in the Kindle app, don’t need a Kindle). There are 2 copies on Reserve in Clapp Library.
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, & Grace Chang (Editors). Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age. University of Illinois Press, 2013. Available as an e-book through Wellesley College library. Log in to MyWellesley. Then search catalog or use this link.
9/6 Overview of Course
Read: Introduction to Part III: Gender, wages, and inequality, in Global Perspectives