Women and Unions
FOR ASSIGNMENT 3 2000 word
Write an essay based on the Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal and Silvia Federici’s Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle.
Craft your own line of arguments. The two books should provide you with ideas and facts to first hammer out your arguments, then get them into a consistent order, and finally support them with empirical facts.
Your essay should address these facets of the topic:
relations between paid and unpaid work
social reproduction
challenges that equity-seeking women face in paid work and unions
relations between women and other equity-seeking groups
globalization
FOR ASSIGNMENT 4 1000 words
Prepare a personal reflection about what you have learned and about what could be done with this knowledge to improve the conditions of working women in and through unions, but also beyond the realm of paid work.
