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PSC 408E

Labor, Economy, and Protest

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeB
Standard

Overview

Description

Popular revolt and protest is often driven by, or justified through, economic frustration. This course looks at economic-based protest movements from the right (anti-tax in California, anti-PT in Brazil ) the left (workers’ rights, anti-Apartheid) and those that transcend normal dichotomies (Brexit, Mouvement des gilets jaunes, Arab Uprisings). We will explore how conventional economic actors (such as business and labor) react to and change through these new movements.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Junior or Senior standing.
ENG 102CH 201CH 202CH 203CH 212PSC 211
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

ENG 102; CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 203 or CH 212; PSC 211; Junior or Senior standing.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Core

CO11

Restrictions

Junior or Senior standing.

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • define the main theories used by political scientists to explain protest.
  • classify different protest movements by their ideology, attitude, and goals.
  • demonstrate in exams and essays a mastery of these theories and an understanding of how they change.
  • critically reflect on student, labor, and economic protests in global contexts, across multiple countries.
  • examine how labor and business react to different forms of pressure.
  • explain how economic protest movements differ from other types of protest and predict how social partners might react to new movements in different global contexts.