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Assignment:

Before beginning this week's graded component you will need to read both the introduction to our textbook, Craig Heron's The Canadian Labour Movement: a Short History and the reading on landlessness and the origin of class.

Guidelines

• Using Heron's Introduction as a reference, write three paragraphs introducing yourself. Use complete sentences and correct grammar. Be sure you answer the following questions:
• Who are you? What parts of your life are most important to who you are?
• In detail, explain which class you belong to according to Marx, according to Wright, and according to Clement and Myles? Which of these understandings of class makes the most sense to you, and why?
• Describe your experience of work. What was your worst job ever? What made it bad? What about your good jobs? What made them good?
• Heron, in his Introduction, tells the stories of average Canadian workers -- Harry, Rose, Sandy, Henri, Ernie and Wendy. For each of these characters, he describes why the union is important to them. Unions were built to improve conditions for workers. In your own work experience, what is the most important issue for unions to address?
• If you haven't yet held a paid job, tell us (instead of answering the last two questions) what you have heard about unions from media, friends and family (be honest and detailed).
• Respond to one of your peers' posts- try to select someone whose life experience is different from your own.

Tips:

• What is important here is making sure that you have sufficiently related your own story to the work of Heron, Marx, Wright, Clement and Miles. You are free to go over the limit in the case of more involved responses.
• Strive to create organized readable material.
• Be creative and try to make your response as original as possible.
• READ other postings before making your commentary; make reference to other students' postings where you can, and respond to them to show your consideration for their contributions.
• Be sure to provide original content. Student work that repeats something stated in another posting will receive lower grades.
• Be considerate of other student's ideas and be polite.