Distinguished Sociologist Frances Fox Piven to Speak on the Decline of the U.S. Labor Movement and its Potential for Resurgence
Posted November 5, 2009
“Can the decline of labor in the United States be reversed?”
This is the question that renowned social scientist Frances Fox Piven will address in a lecture at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Dalton 300.
“Many commentators rightly bemoan the impact of neoliberalism and globalization on American workers,” Piven notes. “However, I will argue that these very developments also generate new strategic opportunities for the revival of the labor movement as a political and economic force.”
Piven holds the post of Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a past president of the American Sociological Association. Her scholarship and activism have centered on social movements, electoral politics, and welfare policy. Her lecture at bryn Mawr is sponsored by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund, the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, the Program in Growth and Structure of Cities, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and the Haverford College Departments of Political Science and Sociology.
