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A Special Summer School Session For Undergraduate and Graduate Students Interested in Working in the Labor Movement Co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO. This course will be designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the nature and structure of corporate ownership, finance, and power in todays economy. Through lectures, readings, case studies, and research training and exercises the class will provide students with the tools to pose and answer basic questions on the operations, structure, and industrial relations strategies of corporate America. In particular this course will focus on how these company characteristics, structures, and practices impact on the firms labor relations policies and strategies and how unions can best respond to and capitalize on these characteristics in union strategic organizing and bargaining campaigns.