MidCourse FeedBack

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Mid-Course Feed-Back

• What you like and dont like about
• Lecture
• Your tutorial
• The course as a whole
• Changes youd like to see made to improve the
  course
• Readings, materials, activities youd like to
  see more of
• Things youd like to see less of

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Written Assignments

• Ideal Job
• Due 10 February 2006
• 10 of final grade
• will require library and other research
• Analysis of Future Employment
• Due 17 March 2006
• 10 of final grade

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Quizzes

• Just Two Left!!
• 1. 20 January 2006
• --Pearson, Ehrenreich, Glasbeek, Brennan,
  Krahn Lowe 5, Rinehart 5
• 2. 3 March 2005
• --film
• Best 3 out of 5 quiz marks count!!

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Last Term -- Review

• -- the rise of work in capitalist societies
• -- changes in the world of work in the half
  century since World War II
• --tension between the promise of work in the new
  economy and the actual reality

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This Term

• -- a deeper look into work and life in the new
  (global) economy
• -- has globalization spread or limited the
  promise of richer, more fulfilling work?
• -- Has Taylorism been superceded, or simply
  modified and refined?

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This Term

• Areas of Interest
• Ø   The Healthy Workplace?
•   Ø   The Changing Role of Governments
• Ø   Monitoring Work technologies,
  surveillance and control
• Ø   Workers and Unions
• Ø   Unsustainable Lives the work-life
  balance, consumption, leisure
• Ø The Workplace how democratic? What
  alternatives? Future of work?

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The Healthy Workplace

• This Week
•  Video A Dangerous Business
• Next Week
• Lecture The Healthy Workplace?
• Video Death on The Job