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Dan Clawson teaches sociology at UMass. He has served as president of the faculty union and the Massachusetts Society of Professors (affiliated with the National Education Association), and as editor of the journal Contemporary Sociology and co-editor of the Rose Series in Sociology. He is a former national chair of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ), which worked to connect intellectuals and the labor movement, and was chair of the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association. His sole, co-authored or edited books include The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements, Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy, Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence, Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books, Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: The Transformation of U.S. Industry 1860-1920 and Work and Families: Expanding the Bounds. His articles have appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, New Labor Forum, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Contexts, New Labor Forum, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and numerous other journals. His current project, with Naomi Gerstel, examines job hours and schedules in four health care occupations (physicians, nurses, nursing assistants and EMTs), and the ways workers do or do not contest those hours. He, along with Gerstel, has been selected to be a resident fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation for their project "Inequality in Work Hours and Schedules" during 2011-12.

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Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Labor Movements, Work Hours and Schedules, Corporatization of the University, Health Care, Social Movements

Current Grants

2011-12. Russell Sage Foundation. Visiting Scholar.

2010-11. NSF. Contesting Time: Negotiations about Work Hours, by Gender and Class. Co-PI: Naomi Gerstel

Recent Grants:

2009.  Sloan Foundation. Unofficial Flexibility: An Analysis of Actual Day-to-Day Schedules.  Co-PI: Naomi Gerstel

2006-08. NSF. Job Hours and Schedules: Explaining the Social Processes in Four Health Care Occupations.  Co-PI: Naomi Gerstel

Selected Publications:

The Future of Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 2011. With Max Page.

"Tenure and the Future of the University." Science 324:1147-48, 2009.

Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. With Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas Anderton and Michael Burawoy (co-editors).

"Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for a Workers Rights Movement." Working USA: Journal of Labor and Society 8:685-706, 2005.

 

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