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ECOP3617: Work and Labour
2025 unit information
This unit examines the changing character and organisation of work. You will explore how the global economic dynamics of production, trade, and finance, the regulation of migration, automation and robotics, and evolving digital platforms of work and its organisation, shape the everyday experience of work and everyone's wellbeing. You will investigate the relationships between the formal and informal sectors of contemporary capitalist economies, and waged and non-waged labour, as well as the ways in which key institutions - including the state, capital, unions, and households - shape patterns of work and capital accumulation.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Political Economy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Political Economy |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ECOP2617 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Differentiate concepts of work, labour and employment
- LO2. Articulate and evaluate different theories of work and labour
- LO3. Describe and analyse changes in the organisation of capitalist work over time
- LO4. Apply theories of capitalist work and labour to different contexts
- LO5. Communicate, in both verbal and written form, a persuasive analysis of work and labour dynamics
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