The written reviews are due on October 4 th and the class presentations will be scheduled for the classes directly thereafter. Special book assignment available for graduate students As an alternative to the case study assignment, graduate students may choose to study Bruce Western's Between Class and Market and present the book to the class as a group project. This book makes a cross-national comparison of the institutional factors behind union membership. It uses several advanced quantitative methods. The presentation will be on October 2nd.
Literature review assignment for graduate students .
You will choose a narrow topic to research in some depth within the overall domain of the course. After getting my approval of your choice, you should critically review the literature on your topic. It should be about ten pages long. Do not choose an article from a journal read primarily by scholars. The article need not be current, although recent articles are better for this assignment than ones from a different historical period.