UCOR-1100 : The Value of Work

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  1. Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability
  2. Sustainability in Academics
  3. Sustainability Courses
  4. Sustainability Course Repository
  5. Courses
  • LSAP Goal 2 Response to the Cry of the Poor
  • LSAP Goal 3 Ecological Economics
  • LSAP Goal 4 Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles
  • LSAP Goal 7 Community Resilience and Empowerment
  • 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

About this Course

Our topic is work, with reflection, analysis and research on these questions:  What meanings do we attach to different kinds of work?  How does work affect identity?  How does work shape the worker and the larger society?  What is the context of the minimum-wage debate in Seattle?  What are the conditions of work where the things we 'consume' are made, and how do those conditions affect us as consumers?