Current version - Indiana University South Bend

Labor Studies Program
Riverside Hall 127 // (574) 520-4595 // www.iusb.edu/~sblabor
Associate Professor: Mishler
Lecturer: Sovereign
Faculty Emeritus: Knauss
Counselor-Recorder: S. Klein
General Information
The program in Labor Studies is a unit of the statewide School of Social Work, based at Indiana University—Purdue
University Indianapolis. IU South Bend students majoring in Labor Studies receive their degrees from IU South Bend.
Labor Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores issues of work and the work place, social inequality and class
structure, and the struggles of workers and their organizations. In this context Labor Studies explores the ways racism,
sexism, xenophobia and homophobia impact on working people, their families, and communities. As a field, it was originally
developed to educate union members and leaders, and Labor Studies sees labor organizations, especially trade unions, as
basic organizations for the maintenance and expansion of a democratic society. Labor Studies faculty come from academic
disciplines such as political science, economics, history, legal studies, sociology, and anthropology, and classes in this
program focus on the experience of workers (of all kinds) and their efforts to achieve a greater voice in society.