OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE AND REQUIRED READINGS FROM SPRING 2002

WEEK:

1. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom ch. 1, 2, 10-13
2. Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
3. Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
4. David Gordon, Fat and Mean
or
David Kuttner
The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

Everything for Sale
5. David Gordon, Fat and Mean
or
David Kuttner
The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

Everything for Sale
6. Michael Katz
or
Piven and Cloward
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

Breaking of the American Social Compact
7. Michael Katz
or
Piven and Cloward
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

Breaking of the American Social Compact
8. Fances Piven and Richard Cloward The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences
9.  
or
George Ritzer
American Politics and Everyday Life

The McDonaldization of Society
10. Robert Holsworth and J. Harry Wray
or
George Ritzer
American Politics and Everyday Life

The McDonaldization of Society
11. Jürgen Habermas "Technology and Science as `Ideology,'" in Toward a Rational Society
12. Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer
or
David Schweickart
Economic Democracy: The Challenge of the 80s

Beyond Capitalism
13. Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer
or
David Schweickart
Economic Democracy: The Challenge of the 80s

Beyond Capitalism