LAW674

May satisfy Writing Requirement.

In this course, students will discuss, learn about, and critique workplace surrounding care, with a particular focus on paid and unpaid caregivers and other domestic laborers. The course considers the law's consequences in the workplace and in the home related to gender, sexism, race, racism, class, classism, disability, sexuality, ableism, and other identities and social constructions. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to collectively workshop paper ideas on Canvas and in class. The course draws on interdisciplinary sources, including case and statutory law, legal scholarship literature, historical materials, and social science research and data. Topics in the course include care work, family caregiver discrimination, slavery, domestic workers, au pairs, the racialized outsourcing of care, anti-essentialism, intersectionality, racism, racial segregation, and the devaluation of care work, among other topics.