Weight: 25% of your final grade Length: 1500 words Due: Upon completion of Unit 1 Instructions This assignment lays the analytical groundwork for the rest of the course. Reviewing Unit 1 of the Study

Weight: 25% of your final grade

Length: 1500 words

Due: Upon completion of Unit 1

Instructions

This assignment lays the analytical groundwork for the rest of the course. Reviewing Unit 1 of the Study Guide, you should write an essay dealing with the following questions:

• What comes to your mind when you hear the term global labour history?
• What, according to the Study Guide, is global labour history?
• What can the concept “divisions of labour” contribute to understand global labour history?
• Which types of “control” over labour exist? Which role do they play in sustaining labour processes?
• Why might workers be discontent with their living and working conditions?
• What is meant by the terms “structural power” and “associational power”?