Fall 2 2025/26 Daily Schedule

Week/DayTopicTextsAssignments due
Week 1 / Jan. 8Austerity, wealth inequality and labor -Teen Vogue, “What is a Union?” (in class)
-Jacobin, “NYC Nurses vs Austerity” (in class)
-“Union” (film) (in class)		-Personal response assignment (completed in class)
-Reading Notes practice (completed in class)
Week 2 / Jan. 15Race, class, gender and the history of the labor movement-Kim Kelly, Fight Like Hell, chapters 1-2
-“Union” (film) (continued in class)		-Reading Notes (due before class)
-Case Study #1 (completed during class)
Week 3 / Jan. 22Platform capitalism and organizing in the gig economy-Callum Cant, Riding for Deliveroo, ch. 1, 5 and 6
-Ayoung Kim exhibit at MOMA PS1 (in class)

*Class Field Trip to MOMA PS1: 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101 		-Reading Notes (due before class)
-Ayoung Kim exhibit experience/reflection paper (completed during class)
Week 4 / Jan 29Transnational migration, U.S. immigration policy and labor organizing-Hammer and Hope, Interview with Alfredo Juarez Zeferino
-Kelly, Fight Like Hell, chapter 6		-Reading Notes (due before class)
-Timeline Assignment (due at the end of class)
Week 5 / Feb 5Race, working class solidarity and social justice unionism-Hammer and Hope, “No Money, No Milk”
– The Nation, “The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way for LA’s Teacher Strike.” 
-”The Killing Floor” (film), directed by Bill Duke (in class)		-Reading Notes (due before class)
-Case Study #2 (due at the end of class)

*By 2/12: Identify a person to have your labor organizing conversation with
Week 6 / Feb 19The future of labor organizing / course wrap-up-Jacobin, “The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power.”
-”When We Fight” (film), directed by Yael Bridge and Yoni Golijov (in class)		-Reading Notes (due before class)

*By 2/24: Turn in Labor Organizing Conversation Reflection Paper 
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