Empire State College offers an opportunity to work towards a degree through studies that focuses on work, workers and the “working-class presence”- social, cultural, and institutional in an historical and a contemporary context.

Labor studies is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the working-class presence and its forms that draws upon both the social sciences and the humanities.

ABOUT LABOR STUDIES
Labor studies students are largely union members, staff, or officers, as well as human resource professionals, managers, and those with an interest in labor/management relations in both the public and the private sectors. The emerging sub-field of “working-class studies” has also drawn increasing numbers of students interested in the working-class experience, broadly defined, and in the popular arts.

Degrees
Students can pursue degrees in five areas: labor studies; cultural studies; social theory, social structure and social change; historical studies; and interdisciplinary studies.

• Associate in Arts
• Associate in Science
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Professional Studies
• Master of Arts
• A certificate program in labor studies is also available