This course examines employment processes, unemployment in the global economy, and theories of the division of labor beginning with Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. This is followed by an analysis of jobs in the current global economy. First, it examines the processes by which jobs are created and destroyed through investment and various processes such as outsourcing and offshoring. Second, it looks at lean production and evidence-based medicine as forms of rationalization that emerged from scientific management and other processes. Third, it looks at how the Internet and robotics are transforming work.