Dan Clawson
(Ph.D. SUNY-Stony Brook 1978) Labor Movements, Work Hours and Schedules, Corporatization of the University, Health Care, Social Movements.
Sociology
W36C Machmer Hall
(413) 545-5974
clawson@sadri.umass.edu

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 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 Public Sociology, 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 Science, 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.

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Current 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.

Recent Grants:
2005-06.  Labor Center.  The Future of Work in Massachusetts.  With Naomi Gerstel.

2000-06. American Sociological Association. Editorship of the Rose Series in Sociology (with Robert Zussman, Naomi Gerstel, Joya Misra, Douglas Anderton, and Randall Stokes, eds.).

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

Recent Publications:
"Tenure and the Future of the University." Science 324(5931): 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(December): 685-706, 2005.

The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. With Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman (co-editors).

"Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States." Contexts 1(4): 28-35, 2002. With Naomi Gerstel.