LSTU-L 390 Labor and Globalization  Class Number 26734; 3 cr.
Globalization is the driving force in the world economy, but it is
also provoking tremendous resistance.  In November 1999 50,000
demonstrators protested the World Trade Organization meeting in
Seattle and engaged in mass non-violent civil disobedience to shut
down the WTO conference.  At every subsequent meeting of the WTO,
the World Bank, or the International Monetary Fund, opponents across
the globe have protested in large numbers. On over 200 U.S. college
campuses students are mobilizing against sweatshops.  The U.S. labor
movement is mobilizing against an expansion of the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to all of Latin America with the Bush
Administration’s proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.  The
course will analyze and debate the many aspects of globalization,
through the prism of workers and unions. Course topics include:
NAFTA; the World Bank; the IMF; structural adjustment programs;
export processing zones; sweatshops; exporting white collar jobs;
Mexico and China; plant closings; protectionism; and the movement
strategy and alternative program of the U.S. labor movement and the
global justice movement  Instructor:  TBA.