This assignment consists of two essays. For each essay, develop a 4-page, double spaced essay addressing the rolling prompt. Please use 12-font, 1” margins. Base you essay on course readings. Cite at least three articles or book chapters from the course readings. One book chapter will count as one “article”.
When referencing key ideas or quoting, cite the author, short title, and page number using the end-quotes. A separate bibliography is not needed. Note: Three different citations are required for each essay; thus across both essays, students will use at least six different course readings.
Essay 1:
Discuss the labor conditions impacting Asian American Workers in agriculture, the garment industry, or the Taxi/ Uber/ Lyft industry. Discuss two or three industries. Be sure to explain how shifts in the global political economy and/or how economic restructuring impacted heir work.
Essay 2:
Workers can and have and aspire to challenge the conditions of their labor and radicalized gender work experiences. Discuss two of the three industries — Filipino farm workers, Asian American garment workers, or South Asian (taxi, Uber, Lyft) drivers— to provide specific case examples of campaigning in which workers have challenged inequalities in their work place.
What have they done and what components of their activism illuminate important features of organizing. Be sure to dress alternative visions for creating working conditions and societies based on principles of justice. Also, dress how issues of race, gender, class, and immigration shape their working conditions and their resistance