Course Details
Country:
Thailand
Institution:
Mahidol University International College
Course Title:
Transnational Movements and Migration
Course Number:
ICIR 303
Course Description:
This course traces the development of organized labour following the Industrial Revolution and the social changes induced by industrialism. Emphasis will be on the problems of capitalism. There is discussion of factory conditions and reform throughout the early labour movement. The social consequences of rapid urbanization and their impact on workers will be examined. Treatment of immigrants and migrant workers both in the early and present industrial societies is of capital importance in this examination. Included in the discussion of migrants will be the legal policies and social treatment of ethnic and racial minorities and of women. Western labor movements and organizations and their consolidation of trade unionism in Britain, labour and union movements in Continental Europe and labour movements in the USA and the British Dominions up to World War I and II are the focus of the first part of the course...
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 299
Attachment Files:
ICIR_303.pdf
