1-Year Master of Science in Labor Studies

The UMass Amherst accelerated master’s degree in labor studies provides the tools that activists need—hands-on skills in organizing, strategic corporate research, and bargaining — as well as the theory and analytical frameworks necessary to think critically about issues facing working people and their movements today. Our curriculum provides an important grounding in economic, political, and legal thinking as we interrogate issues around race, immigration, gender, and the working class in a global economy. Students complete the program with only one year of full-time residency and a final semester of off-campus writing.