Description: Seminar, one hour. Examination of labor organizing efforts through lens of American baseball. Throughout evolution of professional baseball, players have organized for various workplace rights including fair wages, civil rights, and addressing legal challenges thereafter. Focus on athletes' experiences, history of organizing efforts within the sport, and strategic steps organizers took to establish baseball as one of the most robustly unionized sports today. Key topics include baseball's role in middle-class culture, media consolidation, monopolization of Major League Baseball, the sweatshop system, and the intersectionality observed in the integration of female and Black athletes. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Matthew Royer, with Caroline E. Luce as faculty mentor.

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