Section Info: ANTHR-216PR-01

Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Precarious Labor'

Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025

Term: Fall Semester 2025

Description: What do scholars and policy makers mean by the term "precarious labor"? How have transformations in global capitalism contributed to the proliferation of poorly paid work conducted in unsafe conditions in the Global North as well as the Global South? How do nation-states' attempts to regulate migration contribute to the maintenance of unfree labor conditions? How has the globalization of precarious labor affected the organization of reproductive and care labor within families and households in different parts of the world? These questions will be examined through interdisciplinary scholarship on labor under neoliberal capitalism in the Global South as well as in the Global North.

Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Nadia Latif		nlatif@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025	Lecture	Monday and Wednesday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
Prereq: ANTHR-105 or SOCI-123.	Take previously	Required

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
NXLAR0001	NXLAR: Nexus in Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights	This course is approved for the Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights Nexus track.
NXDEV0001	NXDEV: Nexus in Development Studies	This course is approved for the Development Studies Nexus track.

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Open	Capacity: 20	Enrollment: 5	Available: 15	Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.