| Week 1 |
W 9/9 |
Teresa Meade and
Eshragh Motahar (History and
Economics, Union) |
Introduction |
Johnston pp. ix-xvii;
pdf1;
PowerPoint;
recommended
pdf2 |
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M 9/14 |
Steve Sargent (History, Union) |
Inequality in Feudal and Early Capitalist Economies,
1000-1600 |
pdf1
pdf2
PowerPoint |
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Week 2 |
W 9/16 |
Kara Doyle (English, Union) |
Sense and Sensibility:
Patriarchy and Primogeniture |
Link
PowerPoint |
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M 9/21 |
Mary O'Keeffe
(Economics, Union) |
Schenectady as Inequality Action Laboratory? |
pdf1
pdf2
pdf3
pdf4
PowerPoint1
PowerPoint2 |
| Week 3 |
W 9/23 |
Kenneth Aslakson (History, Union) |
"By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the
right to the soil": Slavery and Inequality in American History |
Link PowerPoint
pdf |
| M 9/28 |
Greg Grandin (History, NYU) |
Raphael Painted, Luther Preached, and Milton Sung:
Chattel Slavery and the Making of the Modern World |
pdf1
pdf2
pdf3
Link |
| Week 4 |
W 9/30 |
Dave Cotter (Sociology, Union) |
The Gender Revolution:
Stopped, Stalled or in Reverse? |
pdf1
pdf2
PowerPoint |
| M 10/5 |
Stephanie Coontz (History, Evergreen
College) |
For Better AND Worse: Gender,
Class, and the Transformation of Marriage |
Link1
Link2
Link3 |
| Week 5 |
W 10/7 |
Midterm |
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| M 10/12 |
Steve Fraser
(Writer/Editor, NYC) |
When Class Warfare was in Vogue: Labor and its Allies in the
Struggle for Equality and Democracy |
pdf |
| Week 6 |
W 10/14 |
Melinda Lawson
(History, Union) |
Youth and the Civil Rights Movement |
pdf2
pdf1
PowerPoint |
| M 10/19 |
Brian Jones (Teacher/Activist, NYC) |
Public Education Today, Still
Separate and Still Unequal |
Johnston pp. 44-49 and 120-158 |
| Week 7 |
W 10/21 |
Jeffrey Corbin (Biology, Union) |
Environmental
Threats, Unequally Borne - from Climate Change to Toxics Pollution |
pdf
PowerPoint |
| M 10/26 |
Erin Delman (PhD
Candidate, UC
Irvine) |
The inequality of climate
change: A vulnerability-benefit analysis of fossil fuel CO2
emissions |
Johnston pp. 264-272 |
| Week 8 |
W 10/28 |
Mark
Dallas (Political Science, Union) |
Fragmentation and Hierarchy in
Global Production: Locating China in the New International Division
of Labor |
pdf PowerPoint |
| M 11/2 |
Michael Klare
(Peace & World Security Studies, Amherst) |
Climate Change, Inequality, and
Conflict |
pdf (full ISP report
available
here) |
| Week 9 |
W 11/4 |
Christopher Chabris (Psychology,
Union) |
The Psychology of Inequality: How do
People Think About Inequality? How Should People Think About
Inequality? |
pdf1
pdf2
PowerPoint |
| M 11/9 |
Kristian
Braekkan (Economics & Management, Gustavus Aldophus) |
What’s Happening in Europe?
Crisis, Inequality and Structural Constraints from Greece to
Norway...and Places In Between |
pdf
PowerPoint |
| Week 10 |
W 11/11 |
Bhaskar Sunkara (editor Jacobin,
NYC) |
Bringing Radicalism into Mainstream |
Link
Link |
| M 11/16 |
Teresa Meade & Eshragh Motahar |
Summary and Conclusions |
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