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The field of Labor Studies encompasses scholarship and teaching across a wide array of academic disciplines about work, workers, and worker organizations. Topics covered include unions and collective bargaining, immigrant workers, the impact of globalization on worker well being, worker rights in comparative and historical perspective, and unpaid caring and domestic labor. The Labor Studies minor brings together a variety of courses on labor and social justice. It provides students an interdisciplinary program of study focusing on the importance of labor to the economic, social, political, legal, and cultural development of modern societies.