Guide to Labor Studies app for iPhone and iPad

This application introduces students to the interdisciplinary and advocacy approach to Labor Studies with a particular emphasis on the employment relationship.

Exploring labor’s role in society, the lectures look at how unions have changed the lives of working people and contributed to better social policies as well as highlight the relationship of our work lives to our non-work lives. The 30 lectures are written from the worker’s point of view and the social justice perspective.

Corresponding to each lecture is a multiple-choice test designed to test the student’s knowledge of each lecture’s material. Guide to Labor Studies can be used as a stand-alone guide or an accompaniment for any instructor teaching courses on labor, society, class, or the employment relationship.

This application was created by Marquita Walker, using the Study by App web development platform.

Marquita is currently an Assistant Professor in the Labor Studies Department, School of Social Work, at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Marquita teaches online courses in Labor and Society, Unions and Collective Bargaining, Leadership and Representation, Globalization and Labor, and Ethical Dilemmas in the Workplace; and she also develops online training modules in soft skills for worker training programs.

Marquitas research agenda includes writing for publication about workers and their education and the assessment of students learning outcomes.

Prior to coming to IUPUI in August, 2008, Marquita taught in the Labor Education Programs at the University of MO, Columbia and the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.