Globalization and the Labor Movement

Peter Evans

Please note that the time for today's event has been changed to 3:00 PM (instead of 4:00 PM).

Friday, May 10, 3:00 PM

Room 9206-07
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th. st.

Peter Evans teaches in the Sociology Department at Berkeley. His current research assesses the diverse strategies being explored by the labor movements of the United States, Europe and the global South with the goal of jointly increasing the bargaining power of labor movements in the face of global neo-liberalism. This research flows from a more general interest in the effects of globalization on ordinary citizens and their responses, as exemplified by a paper written for UNCTAD called "Economic Governance Institutions in a Global Political Economy: Implications for Developing Countries" and an article, "Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization" [Contemporary Sociology 29(1):230-241]. His earlier research focused on the role of the state in industrial development. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) reflects that interest. He has also worked on urban environmental issues, as in his recent edited volume, Livable Cities: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (University of California Press, 2002).

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