Sociologist Dan Clawson to Lecture on Inequality
Worcester, MA - Dan Clawson, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will present a lecture entitled, “Inequality: Where We’ve Been – and Might Go,” on Tuesday, February 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise auditorium.
Clawson has written extensively on inequality in society, including analysis of families and work, the labor movement, and trends in higher education. His most recent book is The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. He is also the co-author of two books, Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence and Dollars and Votes: How Corporate Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy, which discuss how corporations dominate campaign finance, elections, and the shaping of public policy. He also co-edited a volume entitled Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on Clawson's latest book, please visit http://www.labornotes.org/bookshelf/nu.shtml.
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