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ROBERT J.S. ROSS

ADDRESS Office Residence

Department of Sociology 31 Flagg Road

Clark University Southborough, MA 01772

Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 481-7739

(508) 793-7376, 7243

Fax (508) 793-8816

rjsross@clarku.edu

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTEREST

Urban and Regional Studies

Political Economy and Public Policy.

Political Sociology

Globalization

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Sociology, University of Chicago, 1975

M.A. Sociology, University of Chicago, 1966

B.A. Political Science, University of Michigan, 1963, with High Honors and High Distinction

Graduate Attendance: University College, London and London School of Economics, 1963-64

AWARDS AND HONORS

Senior Faculty Fellowship, Clark University 2004-2005

Phi Beta Kappa

Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Honorary), 1963-64

Nominated among best teachers 1990-91, Clark University seniors

Hoopes Award, Harvard University 1991 (Honoring excellence in teaching as evidenced by

supervision of an outstanding thesis.)

William I. Cole Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College 1997

Who's Who in the East

Who's Who in Education

Who's Who Among American Teachers

Who's Who in America

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEACHING

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1997 William I. Cole Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College

1994-95 Visiting Professor of Social Studies, Harvard University

(Sabbatical leave from Clark University)

1972 Assistant to Associate (1979) to Professor (1990) of Sociology, Clark University

1989-92 Visiting Professor of Social Studies, Harvard University

1981 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), MIT

1980 Visiting Scholar, DUSP, MIT

1977 Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Work, University of

Michigan

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Sociology

Urban Sociology (Cities and Suburbs)

Comparative Urbanization (Cities in Global

Perspective)

Political Sociology

Topics in Sociological Theory

(Class, Bureaucracy, and Power; Alienation

vs. Estrangement; Political Economy.)

Social Movements

Social Policy

Political Economy and Development

(Seminar in Global Capitalism)

Classical Theory

Class, Status and Power

Fashion and Foul Play

No Sweat!

RESEARCH GRANTS

2001-2002 Center for Labor Education and Research $10,000

Travel Grant from Ford Foundation (Beijing) $2500

2000 Clark European Center in Luxembourg (CECIL) for conference planning

1997-98 Clark Faculty Development Fund, for travel to collections and interviews.

1996 Azadoutian Foundation: Sweatshop Research. $10,000

1995 Clark Faculty Development Fund: Sweatshop Research on Nexis Data Service.

1994 John O'Connor. Economic Development and Environmental Policy. ($1500)

1990-91 Clark Faculty Development Fund, Pilot Project on the Restructuring of the

Massachusetts Economy and the Politics of Massachusetts Business Associations.

($1500)

1978-83 Co-founder and Senior Associate, Regional Development Unit, Center for

Technology, Environment and Development, Clark University. Performed

contract for European Economic Community, British Steel Corporation and the

Derwentside District Council of County Durham, U.K., on branch plants of New

England electronics firms. ($25,000)

Co-organizer and Conference Chair, Luxembourg Conference on Capital and

Labor Restructuring, Walferdange, Luxembourg, June 15-28, 1980. Papers

published as Restructuring Regions in Advanced Capitalism, ed. Phil O'Keefe,

Croom Helm, London, 1984. ($8,000)

1969-72 Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Work

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included Principal Investigator, Study of Advocate City Planners (NIMH,

$60,000).

ADMINISTRATION

2000- Director, International Studies Stream

1993-99 Chair, Department of Sociology, Clark University

1988-89, 89-90 Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, Clark University

1985-86,'87 Acting Co-Chair, Department of Sociology, Clark University

1980-81 Chair

1975-78 Chair

1985-86 Policy Coordinator, Issues Director, D'Amico for Lieutenant Governor

1983-86 Coordinator, The D'Amico Forum, a public policy seminar series for staff,

associates, and constituents of State Senator Gerard D'Amico

1968-69 Executive Director, New University Conference

PUBLIC POLICY

2013- Advisory Committee, Jewish Labor Committee

2012- Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium; Board of Directors. Vice-President

(2013- )

2007- Advisor to Sweat Free Communities; Member

2005- Member Advisory Committee to the Worker Rights Consortium,

Washington, DC

2005- Advisory Committee to SACOM [Students Against Corporate

Misbehavior], Hong Kong, SAR

2004-2006 Member Advisory Committee, China Labor Watch

1997-2004 Technical Consultant, Massachusetts Interfaith Committee on Worker

Justice, Task Force on Sweatshops

1992 Policy Director, D'Amico for Congress

1990-91 Research consultant on comparative health care costs, results and

financing mechanisms for Strategic Health Systems, Newton, MA

1988-90 Policy Consultant, Economic Development and Industrial Commission,

Boston: Plant Closing and Industrial Policy

1988 Consultant, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare, Health Systems

Management: Policy Analysis, editing of Five-Year Planning Policy

Memoranda on Medicaid costs

1986 Policy Director, D'Amico for Lieutenant Governor

1983-86 Staff Policy Analyst to Massachusetts Senator Gerard D'Amico

1983 Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs Task Force on

Dislocated Workers, Job Training Partnership Act

1980 Coalition to Save Jobs

PUBLISHED BOOKS, PAPERS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS

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BOOKS

Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan, with Kent Trachte, SUNY Press, 1990.

Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops. 2004, University of Michigan

Press. [Named A Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2004, by the

Industrial Relations section of the Princeton University Library. ]

REFEREED ARTICLES

2013 “Bread and Roses: Women Workers and the Struggle for Dignity and Respect”. Working

USA. 16 (March). Pp.59-68.

2012 “United Students Against Sweatshops” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Globalization, edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog935

“Clean Clothes Campaign”. Ibid. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog073

“Worker Rights Consortium” Ibid. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog818

2011 “The Rag Trade as the Canary in the Coalmine: The Global Sweatshop 1980-2010” New

Labor Forum 20(1): 42-49, Winter 2011

2007

[with Kate Driscoll and other students] “Asia comes to Main Street and may learn to

speak Spanish: Globalization in a poor neighborhood in Worcester.” Journal of World

Systems Research XIII:2 http://jwsr.ucr.edu/volumes/vol13/Derickson_Ross-vol13n2.pdf

[with Shelly Tenenbaum] “Who Rules America?” Teaching Sociology No. 4 (Winter

2006): 65-85.

2005/6

A Tale of Two Factories: Successful Resistance to Sweatshops and the Limits of

Firefighting. Labor Studies Journal. 30, 4 (Winter 2006): 1-21.

2004 “From Antisweatshop to Global Justice to Antiwar: How the new New Left is the Same

and Different From the old New Left.” Journal of World Systems Research 10:1 287-319.

2003 “Racing to the bottom: international trade without a social clause.” With Anita Chan.

Third World Quarterly. 24:6. pp 1011–1028.

John Shandra, Robert JS Ross and Bruce London, “Global Capitalism and the Flow of

Foreign Direct Investment to Non-Core Nations, 1980-1996: A Quantitative, Cross-

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National Analysis.” [International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Jun; 44: 199 - 238

1998 "Influence of C. Wright Mills on Students for a Democratic Society: An Interview with

Bob Ross." With Trevino, A. Javier Humanity & Society. v 22 n 3:260-277.

1995 With Bruce London, "The Political Sociology of Foreign Direct Investment: Global

Capitalism and Capital Mobility, 1965-1980." International Journal of Comparative

Sociology. 36:3-4. Pp.198-218.

1992 With Thomas Webler and Horst Rakel, "A Critical Theoretic Look at Technical Risk

Analysis." Industrial Crisis Quarterly. Winter, 1992.

1990 With Richard Peet and Julie Graham, "Massachusetts: Miracle or Mirage", Hommes et

Terres du Norde, Fall, 1990 (3), pp. 159-164.

1989 "From Manufacturing-Based Industrial Policy to Service-Based Employment Policy?:

Industrial Interests, Class Politics and the 'Massachusetts Miracle'". With Julie Graham.

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 13:1 1989, pp. 22-35 (corrected

version inserted 13:2 1989.)

1988 "At the Center and Edge: Notes on a Life In and Out of Sociology and the New Left,"

Critical Sociology, vol. 15, no.2, Summer, pp.79-93.

1985 "The Crisis of Detroit and The Emergence of Global Capitalism." With Kent Trachte.

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 9, no. 2, June, pp. 186-217.

1983 "Facing Leviathan: Public Policy and Global Capitalism." Economic Geography, vol. 59,

no.2, April, pp. 144-160.

Reprinted in Richard Peet ed. International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring,

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1987.

"Global Cities, Global Classes: The Peripheralization of Labor in New York City." With

Kent Trachte, Review, VI, 3, Winter, pp.393-431.

Reprinted in Global Cities Reader. Edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Keil.

Routledge. 2006

1980 "Local Planners — Global Constraints." With D. Shakow and P. Susman, Policy

Sciences, 12 (1980), 1-25.

1977 "Primary Groups in Social Movements: A Memoir and Interpretation." Journal of

Voluntary Action Research, Vol. 6, no.3 & 4, July-October.

Reprinted in Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies. Edited by Jo

Freeman. Longman. 1983 as “Generational Change and Primary Groups in a

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Social Movement.”

Reprinted in R. David Myers, ed., Toward a History of the New Left: Essays

From Within the Movement, Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, 1989.

"The New Left and the Human Services Professions," Sociology and Social Welfare, Vol.

4, no. 5 (May), pp. 694-706.

"Problems of Advocacy," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Vol.4, no. 6, (Sept.),

18 pages.

1976 "The Impact of Social Movements on a Profession in Process: Advocacy in Urban

Planning," Sociology of Work and Occupations, Vol.3, no. 4, November, pp. 429-454.

1972 "The Politics of Analyzing Social Problems." With Graham Staines, Social Problems,

Vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 18-40.

Reprinted in William Hirs, ed., Helping and Changing, National Centrum voor

Geestelijke Voikgezondheid (Netherlands).

Adapted for use in K. Neubeck, Social Problems: A Critical Approach, 1979, Scott,

Foresman.

1971 "OD [Organizational Development] for Whom?: A Comment," Journal of Applied

Behavioral Science," Vol.7, no. 5, pp. 580-585.

"Advocacy and Democracy." With Alan Guskin, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,

January, pp. 43-57.

Reprinted in Robert Buckhout, ed., Toward Social Change, A Handbook for Those Who

Would, Harper and Row, 1971.

.... In L.K. Northwood, ed., Next Steps in Strengthening Social Components of Urban

Planning.

.... In M. Levitt, ed., Urban Scene, Wayne State University Press, 1972.

.... In Cox, Erlich, Rothman and Tropman, editors, Strategies of Community

Organization, A Book of Readings, Second and Third Editions, Peacock Publishers, 1974,

1978.

1970 "The University and the Future," Social Policy, Vol. 1, November/December, pp. 36-37.

1969 "Theses on Sociology, Sociological Focus, Vol. 2, no. 4, pp.37- 43.

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ORIGINAL CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS AND OTHER ESSAYS

(Forthcoming) “Consumers and Producers: Agency, Power and Social Enfranchisement.”

Chapter Two in Workers’ Rights and Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains:

Is a Social Label the Answer? [working title], tbp by Taylor and Francis edited by

Jennifer Lynn Bair, Marsha Dickson and Doug Miller.

(Forthcoming) ““Bread and Roses: Why we need the legend.” Chapter 13 in The 1912 Bread

and Roses Strike Through New lenses edited by Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler.

Baywood.

(Forthcoming) "In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Informal Economy, Gender and

Sweated Labor in Global Apparel Production" Chapter 5, in Gendered Commodity

Chains:Seeing Women’s Work And Households In Global Production. Edoited by

Wilma Dunaway. Stanford University Press.

(Forthcoming/Proposed). “Democracy and Globalization: Reflections on Port Huron.” In

collection of essays from Ann Arbor conference on Port Huron Statement edited by

Nelson Lichtenstein and Richard Flacks. Paper accepted; publisher under consideration.

2011“Worker Rights Consortium”, chapter 48 in Handbook of Transnational Governance

Institutions and Innovations edited by Thomas Hale and David Held, Polity

press, London.

2010. “Structure, Stress and Families in the Great Recession”. 2010. The Great Recession and

its Impact on Families. Mosakowski Institute. Clark University. Pp. 10-17.

2009 “China, Asia and Labor Standards after the MFA”. “China, Asia and Labor Standards

after the MFA”. Asia and the Transformation of the World-system Volume XXXI, Political

Economy of the World System. Editor, Ganesh Trichur. Paradigm. 2009

“Reflections on the Sociology Liberation Movement of 1968. Crisis, Politics, and Critical

Sociology, 2009, Graham Cassano and Richard Dello Buono (eds), Boston and Leiden: Brill

“From antisweatshop to global justice to antiwar: how the new New Left is the same and

different from the old New Left.” In Transforming Globalization Challenges and

Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era . Edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer. Pages 111-

121. Brill (paperback version of 2005 publication)

2006

"Global Cities, Global Classes: The Peripheralization of Labor in New York City." With

Kent Trachte. Reprinted in Global Cities Reader. Edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Keil.

Routledge. 2006. Pp. 104-110. Edited version of 1983 article .

2005

“"Sweatshop Labor: (Re)Framing Immigration.” In David Croteau, William Hoynes, and

Charlotte Ryan, editors, Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social

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Movement Scholarship. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis. Pages 176-190.

“From antisweatshop to global justice to antiwar: how the new New Left is the same and

different from the old New Left.” In Transforming Globalization Challenges and

Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era . Edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer.

Pages 111-121.

2002 “The New Sweatshops in the United States: How New, How Real, How Many, and

Why?” Chapter 5, in Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel

Industry after NAFTA. Edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair. Temple

University Press.

“The Decline of Labor Standards in The U.S. Apparel Industry”. Globalization: Critical

Perspectives, edited by G. Kohler and E.J.Chaves (New York: Nova Science).

2000 "NAFTA and the Race to the Bottom." In Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology and

the Social Sciences: An Analysis of the Structures of Dependency at the Turn of the

Millennium. A. Tausch & P.M. Zulehner (eds). Commack, NY. Nova Scientific.

1998 "The New Sweatshops in the United States: How New, How Real, How Many, and

Why?" In Global Labor Standards and The Apparel Industry: Can we regulate global

production? Resource book for Conference of same name. Harvard Trade Union

Program, Institute of Politics and the Labor Leadership Forum on the Economy. Harvard

University, October, 1998

1997 "Immigration Restriction: A Sweatshop Nonsolution." In an Academic Search for

Sweatshop Solutions: Conference Proceedings. Marymount University, Arlington, VA.

Pp. 32-46.

1995 "Global Capitalism and Labor at the End of History." Socialism and Democracy, 9:2

(#19), Fall/Winter 1995-96.

"Global Capital, Global Unions: Speculations on the Future of Global Unionism." In Die

Geburt der Weltwirtschaft, edited by Karl. S. Althaler & Hardy Hanappi. Vienna:

Sonderzahl Verlagsges.

"The Theory of Global Capitalism: State Theory and Variants of Capitalism on a World

Scale." In A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century, edited

by Jozsef Borocz & David A. Smith. Westport: Greenwood.

1994 "Choosing Your Parents Well: Structure, Competence and Corruption in Coping with

Fiscal Stress." With Jean Riesman. In Joseph S. Slavet, ed., Municipal Fiscal Stress in

Massachusetts: Prognosis and Prescription. A Special Report. Boston: The John W.

McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. Pp. 50-92.

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1990 "The Relative Decline of Relative Autonomy: Global Capitalism and Political Power," in

Edward Greenberg and Thomas Mayer, editors, Changes In The State: Causes and

Consequences, Russell Sage, Newbury Park. Pp. 206-223.

1984 "A Theoretical Approach to Capital and Labor Restructuring," With K. Gibson, J.

Graham, D. Shakow. (In P. O'Keefe, ed., below).

"Global Capitalism and Regional Decline: Implications for the Strategy of Classes in the

Older Regions." With K. Gibson, J. Graham, D. Shakow, P. Susman, and P. O'Keefe. In

P. O'Keefe, ed., Restructuring Regions in Advanced Capitalism, Croom Helm, London.

1983 "Generational Change and Primary Groups in A Social Movement." In J. Freeman, ed.,

Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, Longman, Inc., New York, pp. 177-187.

Reprinted in Readings for Social Science, edited by Jay Corrin and Ernest Kilker, for

Boston University College of Basic Studies, pages 349-372, 1985.

1978 "The State of Urban Society," in J. Boskin, ed., Issues in American Society, Glencoe,

Pp. 161-181.

1972 "Forward" to Tenants and the Urban Housing Crisis, S. Burghardt, ed., The New Press,

pp. I-ix.

Reprinted as "Vision and Steady Work: Lessons for the 70's," Win Magazine, May, 1974.

1971 "Why the Cities are Failing," in D. Allen and A. Hanson, ed., Ecology, Society and Man,

Wadsworth.

OTHER ARTICLES

2013 “On American Retailers and the Bangladesh Disasters: American clothing retailers

should put up or shut up.” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. May 23, 2013.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/american-clothing-retailers-should-put-up-or-shut-up-

b9917630z1-208747871.html

2012 “A fashion don’t” [Re: Ralph Lauren and Olympics]. Op-ed. Los Angeles Times. July 19.

“Freedom's Song: Civil Rights and Protest Songs of the 1960s” Blog entry for Mass

Humanities Council The Public Humanist.

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?uid=46 (posted December 17)

2011 “100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a sordid parallel exists across the globe:

Laws and enforcement needed in trade agreements” Posted (March 25) on “This week in

sociology”. http://www.thisweekinsociology.com/?p=105

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“The story of Mayday:” This week in Sociology. http://www.thisweekinsociology.com

“In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Gender and Sweated Labor in Global Apparel

Production.” This week in Sociology. Tuesday, October 25, 2011

“Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect in Working Class Struggles.” Wednesday,

September 7, 2011. This week in Sociology.

2010 (Winter) “Shaper of the New Deal” Dissent. Pp. 107-110.

“Sociology in Public.” Symposium on “From Public Sociology to Real Utopias?” States,

Power and Society. Newsletter of the Political Sociology Section of the ASA. Summer

2010. Volume 15, Issue 3. Pp1, 3-4.

“Overcoming tough times: We need to get serious about supporting working families in

Massachusetts.” With Deborah Youngblood. Commonwealth magazine. Fall 2010

(October 19). Available online at

http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/Voices/Perspective/2010/Fall/Overcoming-

tough-times.aspx

2009 (Spring) “Losing Ground Another Look at Made In L.A.” Dissent. pp. 103-06

“The Republic Window occupation and labor sociology.” On the Line. 3:2, p. 6.

Newsletter of the Labor Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

The untouchables that are killing health reform.” Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-s-ross/the-untouchables-are-

kill_b_230765.html

2007 “Index state minimum wage to increases in cost of living.” Op-ed. Worcester Telegram

and Gazette. January 17, 2007.

“The problem isn't the raid, it's the sweatshop.” With Hillary Collins-Gilpatrick and

Liana Foxvog. Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Op-ed. MetroWest Daily News.

Commentary on PBS documentary Made in LA: Watching Made in LA, online special:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/madeinla/special_watching.html

2006 “No Sweat: Learning from history is hard.” Dissent Magazine. October 2006. pp 50-56.

2002 “From North-South to South-South: The True Face of Global Competition.” Foreign

Affairs. Volume 81:5.

Reprinted in Cooperation South. United Nations Development Programme. 2002

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Annual Volume. Pp. 70-77.

“Author’s Update: Race to the Bottom” Dollars and Sense. July/August

“The "Race to the Bottom" in Imported Clothes.” Dollars and Sense. Issue 239.

Jan./Feb. 2002):46-47.

2001 “Sweatshop Police.” The Nation. September 3, 10. Pp. 6-7.

Republished online at: http://www.behindthelabel.org/oped.php?story_id=24

“No Sweat: Teaching Globalization Over Twenty Years.” Radical Teacher, #61, 2001.

2000 “Countdown in Managua.” The Nation. September 4, 2000. Pp. 25-27.

1999 "Just the Facts, Ma'am." Op-ed. Worcester Magazine. January 13, 1999. Page 9.

1997 Women and Sweatshops. In Women and Money. Vol.1, no. 11, December 1997.

pp. 15-18.

Rosy Times Aid Labor's Cause. Op-ed. Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Sept., 1997.

"A Sea of Sweatshops," Peaceworks, March 1997.

Article on sweatshop and mass media for Newsletter of the Urban and Community

Section of the ASA. Spring 1997.

1996"Your Father's Oldsmobile," Boston Review, (21) 1, Feb./March 1996, p.9.

Revised and extended in "Responses to Richard Flacks: Your Father's Oldsmobile",

Socialism and Democracy, no. 21 (Summer 1996) 105-108.

"Global Capitalism and Labor: An Exchange," (With Michael Barratt Brown) Socialism

and Democracy, no. 21 (Summer 1996) 153-157.

Op-ed Worcester Telegram: 10/1/96. Sweatshops.

1995 Op-ed on Vietnam for Memorial Day. Boston Herald (May 28); Providence Journal,

Hartford Courant (May 31).

1991 Viewpoint: "Reviving Socialism and Countering Capital's Reach." In These Times, (v.

15, no. 39), October 23-29, 1991, pp. 16-17.

1990 "Chemical Warfare? Orange Drinks!" Middlesex News, op-ed, August 30, 1990.

1989 "Breaking the Cold War Ice." A vignette prepared for a special issue on the Sixties of the

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Bill of Rights Journal, a publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties

Committee, 3 pages.

1988 "Lennon or Lenin," Review essay of Todd Gitlin, The Sixties, in Tikkun:

January/February, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 74-76.

"Kennedy Right, Murdoch Wrong in TV Cross-ownership battle," op-ed, Middlesex

News, January 10, 1988.

"Who's Left?" Village Voice, March 1, 1988, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 20, 59.

1987 "Early 60's, Late 80's: Student Activism After Twenty-five Years," Clark Now, vol. 17,

no.3, Fall/Winter, 1987, pp. 10-11.

"Taking it from the streets again," (A review essay on James Miller, Democracy Is in the

Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago), in These Times, vol. 11, no.37, Sept.

30- Oct.6, 1987, pp. 18,19.

1984 "High Tech: They want too much for too little," Boston Globe, May 29, 1984.

"Two Towns in Israel: West Bank Facts are Hitting Home," The Nation, March 10, pp.

280-283.

1982 "Regional Illusion, Capitalist Reality," Democracy, II, 2, pp. 93- 99.

1980 "Community Organizing and Political Engagement," In These Times, April 30-May 6.

1977 "Labor Law Reforms and the Cities," In These Times, December 14, 1977, p.17.

"Lions and Lambs," In These Times, September 14, 1977, pp. 24, 18.

1975 "Politics, Inflation, and Depression," WIN Magazine, July 31, pp.12-13.

1974 "Notes on the Meaning of Watergate," WIN Magazine, July 4, pp. 10- 12.

1969 "When, If Ever, Do You Call In The Cops?" A Symposium of The New York Times

Magazine, May 4, 1969.

"Middle Class Organizing and The Movement," Liberation, November, pp.42-43.

1968 "Is Planning a Revolution?" Viet Report, Summer, 1968, pp. 3, 8- 11,61.

Reprinted in Perrucci and Pilisuk, eds., The Triple Revolution, Little, Brown & Co.,

revised edition, 1971,

.... In S. Deutsch and J. Howard, eds., Where It's At, Harper, 1969.

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1967 "The CIA at College," Village Voice, July 6, 1967, with Todd Gitlin.

1966 "Notes on The Welfare State," Liberation, March.

Reprinted in Where It's At (See Above).

FICTION

1996 As Jon Sanford: "Underground Reverse" in Socialism and Democracy, no. 21 (Summer

1996). 129-134.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Centeno, Miguel A and Joseph N. Cohen. Global Capitalism: A Sociological

Perspective. Journal of World System Research 2012. 18:1, pp:128-131.

http://www.jwsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/reviews-vol18n1.pdf

Review of Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America, by Andrew Stark, Contemporary

Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, May 2011; vol. 40, 3: pp. 345-347

Review of Steve Early Embedded with Organized Labor, in Socialism and Democracy. #56 (vol.

25, no. 2)June, 2011

Review of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies by Daniel E. Bender. Journal of Social History.v. 38 no.

4 (Summer 2005) p. 1105-8.

.Review of Monitoring Sweatshops by Jill Esbenshade. Social Forces v. 83 no. 4 (June 2005) p.

1791-2

Review of Changing the Powers that be: How the Left can stop losing and win. By G. William

Domhoff. Prepared for Critical Sociology symposium, edited by David Fasenfest. 1 April, 2004,

vol. 30, iss. 1, pp. 109-138(30).

Review of Nicholas C. Burbules and Carlos Alberto Torres’ (eds.) Globalization and Education:

Critical Perspectives. In Radical Teacher. Issue #65. 2003.

Review of Rebecca Klatch A Generation Divided : The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s ,

for Contemporary Sociology v. 30 no. 6 (Nov. 2001) p. 621-3

Review of Appelbaum and Bonacich, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel

Industry. U of California Press; and Andrew Ross, ed. No Sweat. Verso. 1997. In Lingua

Franca. May/June 1998. http://www.sevenbridgespress.com/lf/Special/practicebooks.html

Review of Living in the Global City, in Contemporary Sociology.

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Review of Hagen Koo, ed., State and Society in Contemporary Korea. In Contemporary

Sociology. 24(2):212-13. March 1995.

Review of Philip W. Nyden and Wim Wiewel, editors, Challenging Uneven Development: An

Urban Agenda for the 1990s. In Humanity and Society, Winter 1993.

Review essay on Judge Robert C. Coates, A Street is Not a Home: Solving America's Homeless

Dilemma, and John R. Belcher and Frederick A. DiBlasio, Helping the Homeless: Where do we

go from here? in Hospital and Community Psychiatry, February, 1992.

Review of Leslie Sklair, Sociology of the Global System, in Choice, September, 1991

Also in Choice:

Of M. Patricia Marchak, The Integrated Circus: The New Right and the Restructuring of Global

Markets., February, 1992.

Of J. Huer, The Wages of Sin: America's Dilemma of Profit Against Humanity, April, 1992

Of E. Meiksins Wood. The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, September, 1992.

Of Brian D. Jacobs, Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment in Britain and

America. February, 1993.

Of Andrew B. Schmookler, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our

Destiny. May, 1993.

Of Susan Olzak, The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict. June, 1993.

Of Michael Katz, ed., The 'Underclass' Debate: Views From History, September, 1993.

Of Larry J. Ray, Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social

Movements. April, 1994.

Of James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America.

October, 1994.

Of Berch Berberoglu. Class Structure and Social Transformation. In Choice March 1995.

Of Irwin Silber, Socialism: What Went Wrong?, in Choice May 1995.

Of John Westergaard, Who Gets What? The Hardening of Class Inequality in the Late Twentieth

Century. July 1995.

Of Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart. 1995. Value Change in Global Perspective. Ann

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Arbor. University of Michigan Press. November, 1995.

Of Joel Nelson. 1995. Post-industrial Capitalism: Exploring Economic Inequality in America.

Sage Publications. California. February, 1996.

Of The Other City: People and Politics in New York and London. Edited by Suzanne

MacGregor and Arthur Lipow. Humanities Press. 1995. June. 1996

Of Teeple, Gary. 1995. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform. Humanities/Garamond.

Submitted May, 1996.

Of Shaw, Randy. 1996. The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyond.

University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20315-1; ISBN 0-520-20317-8 pbk. Submitted

7/8/96.

Review of Bill Jordan. A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion. Polity. 1996.

Review of The Global Age. Martin Albrow.

In the Journal of World System Research:

Review of Global Inequality. York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace. Thousand Oaks,

California: Pine Forge Press. 1996. Submitted 7/10/1996. Online at

http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr/vol2/v2_r3.htm

AGENCY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: Comment on W. Warren Wagar's "Toward a Praxis of

World Integration." Available at: http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr/vol2/v2_n2-h.htm

Review of Roger Gottlieb, Marxism and Subjectivity, in Rethinking Marxism, vol. 4, no. 3, Fall

1991.

Review of Leslie Sklair, Sociology of the Global System, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 21,

Issue 2, March 1992.

Review of Edward Tiryakian, Global Crisis, in Social Forces, vol. 69, no.3, March 1991.

Review of George Katsiaficas, The New Left in 1968: A Global Analysis, in Contemporary

Sociology, September, 1988.

Review of Michael Peter Smith, Cities, Politics and Markets, in Local Economy, London, 1989.

Review of Jack. E. Holmes, The Mood/Interest Theory of American Foreign Policy, in Political

Psychology, Vol.8, no.1.

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Review of Harrel Rodgers, Jr. The Cost of Human Neglect, in Contemporary Sociology.

"Review" of Donald Warren, The Radical Center, in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 5, no.6,

November, 1976, p.797.

Of Ida R. Hoos, Systems Analysis and Public Policy: A Critique, in Contemporary Sociology,

Vol. 3, no. 5, September, 1974, pp. 405-406.

Of Robert Mayer, Social Planning and Social Change, in Social Forces, Vol. 52, no. 4, 1974, pp.

579-580.

Of Bertram Gross, ed., Social Intelligence for America's Future, in Contemporary Sociology,

Vol. 1, no. 1, p.72, p. 45.

REPORTS

Toward a Nuclear-Free Commonwealth: A White Paper on Seabrook and Nuclear Power.

Released by Senator Gerard D'Amico, July, 1986.

Stop It at The Source: A Policy Paper on Hazardous Waste Clean-Up and Prevention. Released

by Senator Gerard D'Amico, August, 1986.

Six Brief Policy Papers: On Housing, Civil Rights, Children and Families, Economic

Development and Economic Justice, and Environment and Energy. For Senator D'Amico's use

at the Democratic State Convention, May, 1986.

Editor: Two Policy Memoranda on Cost Control in Medicaid Programs: "Pharmacy," 35 pp.,

and "Medical Supplies and Durable Goods." 30 pp. January and February, 1988.

Co-author, Policy Memorandum on Hospital Costs in Medicaid. 40 pp. March, 1988.

Co-author, A Review of the Massachusetts Plant Closing Law, with Tom Gallagher, Economic

and Development and Industrial Corporation/Boston, August, 1988, 30 pages approx.

Co-author, Senior Editor, Jobs, Justice and Miracles: Toward A Commonwealth in

Massachusetts in 1990. Massachusetts Campaign for Jobs and Justice. June, 1989.

A New Strategy for Economic Development and a Sustainable Environment: Public Policy for

Green Jobs, Draft Report to the Jobs and Environment Campaign, February, 1994. 53 pages, ms.

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

Dry Run, a novel about politics and drugs set in Massachusetts and the Presidential campaign of

1988. 1989, 335 pages mss.

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Good Man Gone a novel about the downfall of a Massachusetts political operative caught in an

ethics scandal. 1990, 300 pages mss.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS: 1984-2012

2013

February 06: Colloquium: English department/ Clark University. Bread and Roses: Women

Workers and Dignity and Respect.

March 21: Deadly Secrets: The Fires in Bangladesh. Clark University Alumni event. Boston.

July 3-5. Panelist. Workshop on Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy at the

Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy

August 9: Plenary Panelist at Conference on Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-

Economy, New York City. Convened by the Section on Political of the World System of

the American Sociological Association.

2012 December 20. “Freedom’s Song: Songs of the civil rights and protest movements.”

Worcester Art Museum, sponsored by the Mass Humanities Council.

Nov. 1. Invited Panelist. A Conversation on the Founding of SDS at University of

Michigan Conference: A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement in Its Time and

Ours

August 17. Panelist. Fifty Years after the Port Huron Statement. Invited Thematic

Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Denver).

August 20. Panelist. Invited Thematic session. “Benchmarking America; Inequality and

Poverty compared to the OECD and EU”

June 10. Panelist: Issues in Class Consciousness “Dreaming away exploitation: how the legend of immigrant mobility creates apologies for exploitation” How Class

Works: Biennial Conference at SUNY Stony Brook.

April 28: Presentation: “Fire-to-Fire: How American Investors Exported Factory Fires

and Sweatshops While Big Box Retailers Allowed Sweatshop Conditions to Reappear in

the U.S.” Panel at Bread and Roses Centennial Academic Symposium. Lawrence MA

April 28: “Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect as a Dimension of Labor and Working

Class Struggles”, as above, chair, organizer and presenter.

Feb. 3, 2012: Panelist: Port Huron As An Episode In Our Lives: Participants Reflect On

Legacies and Lessons, Port Huron at Fifty, Conference at University of California at

Santa Barbara. “Labor, Globalization and Democracy”

March 17: Presentation on Corporate Social Responsibility and Worker Rights to Project

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Seminar at UCSB

April 4: Lecture at Women’s History Month, Clark University, “Bread and Roses:

women workers and the struggle for dignity and respect.”

2011

March 24, 2011: “Consumers and Producers: Agency, power and social

enfranchisement.” Panel on Global Perspectives on Sweatshops of Labor and Working

Class History Association at conference on Triangle Centennial “Out of the Smoke and

Flame.” CUNY Graduate Center.

March 25: “From Fire to Fire: the Globalization of sweatshops” Invited Lecture at St.

Johns University, NYC, for Triangle Fire Commemoration.

March 31: “The rag trade as the canary in the coal mine: The Global Sweatshop 1980-

2010.” Invited Panel on Global commodity Chains and Human Rights. Northeastern

University

April 4: Boston University. “The context of our times.” Invited Opening talk for Boston

University Labor/Student on anniversary of MLK assassination; part of national “We

Are One” events.

May 9, 2011: Audience discussion resource person at musical “Silver Spoon” in Central

Square Theatre.

August: American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Thematic Session. Chair

and organizer: “Bread and Roses; Dignity and Respect as a dimension of labor and

working class struggles”

October 14. “In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Informal Economy and

Sweated Labor in Global Apparel Production”. At the conference Gendered Commodity

Chains: Bringing Households and Women into Global Commodity Chain Analysis.

Binghamton University, Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems,

and Civilizations.

December 15: Led audience discussion of Boston University performance of Buchner’s

play, Woyzeck.

2010

March 19. Eastern Sociological Society. Annual Meeting. “South-South: China and the New

Paradigm in the Race to the Bottom.”

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March 19. Thematic Session (invited), ESS, Sweatshops, Immigrants and Labor Rights

March 31 : “The Impact of the Recession on Families”. Family Impact Seminar at

Massachusetts State House.

September 1: Keynote. Conference on Social labeling and the Global Apparel Industry.

University of Northumbria, UK. “Consumers and Producers: Agency, power and social

enfranchisement.”

2009

April 20. Invited lecture. University of Sydney. Globalization and sweated labor.

April 20th

: Class Presentation, University of Sydney: Theories of the state and globalization.

April 21: Students and social justice: reflection of a veteran of the US New Left.

Presentation to Sydney Solidarity

April 22. Honors seminar presentation on research. University of Sydney

April 23. Invited lecture. How workers gain inclusion. University of Western Australia.

August. Society for Student of Social Problems annual meeting. Organizer and presenter:

Issues and controversies in the labor movement.

American Sociological Association annual meeting. What we thought then and what we

know now: reflection on the history of the new left and social science.

September 16: Biever Invited lectureship. Loyola University, New Orleans. “It’s In Your

Jeans; Success and Failure in the Anti-Sweatshop Movement. “

December 1: “Sweatshops and the Race to the Bottom.” Course lecture at Global Society ,

Clark University

2008

January 31. Panel on Climate change at Clark University Teach-in/Symposium

“The contribution of Urban Sprawl to Global Warming”

February 12, 13. Lectures to Clark University Washington DC Alumni and Philadelphia

Alumni: Three Pillars of Decency: How working people won and lost a place in the

American Dream,

February 25. Invited Lecture to Westborough, MA Historical Society: “Sweatshops then and

now.”

March 18. Invited Lecture: Clark University Peace Studies course: ‘Solutions to the

Sweatshop Problem.”

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August 3: Special Mini-Conference by the journal Critical Sociology: Power And Resistance:

Critical Reflections, Possible Futures

Kick-Off Speaker On “Reflections On “The Sociology Liberation Movement” 1968.”

Discussant: Panel on Critical Institutionalism

July 31: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Panel on Labor, the Democrats and the 08 Election: Prospects and Perils

August 4. Panel on Emerging Peripheries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Annual Meeting

of American Sociological Association . “Sweatshops in China and the "Race to the Bottom"

in Global Labor Standards.”

September: Panel on Human Rights Paradigms and Movements. International Sociological

Association Barcelona Congress. “Revisiting the social clause: what the post-MFA results

show about the Race to the Bottom and labor rights as human rights.”

__________: Panel on Responses to the Emerging Global Plutonomy. “How do Workers

Achieve Inclusion?”

October 1: Invited Lecture: Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, MA: “Asia

Comes to Main Street: Recent Immigration in Global Perspective”

November 6: Discussion of film “Made in LA”. Annual Meeting of Association for

Humanist Sociology. Boston.

November 8: Panel on Reflections on 1968. Annual Meeting of Association for Humanist

Sociology. Boston.

2007

March 20: Peace Studies Course, Clark Univesity; Three Pillars of Decency and the

Sweatshop problem

March 28: Slaves to Fashion. Bloomfield College, New Jersey

March 29: State and Local Government Sweatfree Consortium Convening Meeting, State

House, Harrisburg, PA: “Stopping the Race to the Bottom.”

May 3: Panel at Harvard University “Sweatshop Challenges in Bangladesh; How you can

campaign to help.”

May 10: PEWS Conference on Asia and the World-System. St. Lawrence University.

“China, Asia and Labor Standards after the Multi-Fiber Agreement.

August 11-14. August. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Organizer, Regular Session, Work and the Work Place.

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Presenter, Panel on University as a Site for Social Action: “the University Based

antisweatshop Movement.”

Panelist: Who Rules America? A Forty Year Retrospective.”

Panelist (Sociologists Without Borders): The Global Antisweatshop Movement.

October 30: University of Rhode Island, Honors Colloquium (Series: China Rising)

“Sweatshops in China and the "Race to the Bottom" in Global Labor Standards”

November 29 and December 4: Clark University Global Society course. Invited

lectures. Sweatshops in Global context; Movements and Policies to combat Sweatshops.

2006

March 2: Slaves to Fashion, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco.

March 17: Presentation on Jews and sweatshops to Jewish Organizing Initiative. Boston, MA

March 21; Guest lecture to Peace Studies class, Clark University, Globalization and labor

March 23; Guest lecture to Peace Studies class, Clark University, Movements and Policies

March 23: “Three women, Three Pillars of Decency for working people”: Annual Women’s

History Month Lecture Worcester Women’s History Project.

March 26: Jews and the garment District, to Humanistic Jewish congregation K’hal Braira,

Newton, MA

March 29: Combining Activism with an Academic Career, keynote speech to Graduate

Student Research conference, Clark University

March 30; Slaves to Fashion and Three Pillars of Decency. Brandeis University Department

of Sociology

April 4: Slaves to Fashion , Assumption College

April 23, Address to Regional SDS meeting, Brown University

11. May 4: ‘Movements and Politics” Conference on Assessing 40 Years Of Democratic

Activism, University of California at Santa Barbara.

August 4: Three Women, three Pillars of Decency. World Fellowship Center.

August. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

8/14 Discussant, Panel on Cities in Global Capitalism

8/12 Discussant, Panel on Social Movements and the World Social Forum

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2005

January 20, Public Forum Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program, Labor and

Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

January 22, Washington DC. Consultation with United States Against Sweatshops

January 24. Briefing for House of Representatives staff, hosted by the Offices of

Congressmen James McGovern and Sherrod Brown

January 24. Brown bag presentation at AFL-CIO headquarters, Washington, DC. Slaves to

Fashion.

Feb. 2: Panelist, “After September 11th”. Assumption College.

February 7, 2005 Talk, Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Campus Alliance for

Progressive Politics and Action (CAPPA) University of Hartford.

March 3, 2005 University of California Berkeley, Institute for Industrial Relations Berkeley.

March 3, 2005 Slaves to fashion. Sweatfree Bay Area Campaign Kickoff at New College,

SF.

March 16, 2005 Talk and discussion University of Connecticut : Slaves to Fashion

March 18, Interview on Writer’s Voice WUMA (Amherst, NPR).

April 2. Summary and Century-long Overview. Conference on Constructing Markets for

Conscientious Consumers. University of Michigan

April 4, 2005 Slaves to Fashion Oakland University, MI

May 23-24. Summary Talk The enfranchisement of labor in the 21st century at “The End of

Global Textile Quotas: Understanding the New Shape of the World Economy.” Labor and

Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. Conference on May 23-24, 2005.

August 5, 2005 Talk Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Martha’s Vineyard

August 12: Co-Chair, Conference on Labor and Globalization (a conference of the Sections

on Labor, Political Sociology and Political Economy of the World System of the American

Sociological Association.) August 12, 2005 Philadelphia.

Paper: Freeing the Slaves to Fashion

Chair; Session on Auto textile Industries in Mexico

Moderator: Dinner Panel of labor leaders

August 18, 2005 Slaves to Fashion World Fellowship Center Conway, NH

September 7:

Radio Interview; Willimantic, CT

Lecture on Slaves to Fashion, Eastern Connecticut State University, University Hour Lecture.

November 7: Lecture on Slaves to Fashion, Worcester State College Honors program

November 10. Guest Lecture in Global Society course, Clark University. Labor Abuse in the

global system

November 15: Teleconference/lecture with Univesity of New Mexico class Social problems

class on Slaves to Fashion

November 30: Discussant of David Cunningham’s book on FBI and Social Movements of

60’s ( There’s Something Happening Here.) at Brandeis University

2004

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“Human Rights and Labor Rights” Amnesty International Human Rights Day conference,

panelist. Boston Public Library. December 11.

Radio Interview WTAG (Worcester, broadcast 12/12, 12/19)

Speech on leadership to Student Affairs Conference, Nov. 20.

Friends of the Goddard Library, Clark University. “Slaves to Fashion”. Nov. 10

Friends of the Southborough (MA) Library: Slaves to Fashion.” Oct. 21.

Panelist, Community Economic Forum, Worcester, MA: Low wage labor. October 17.

Panelist, American Sociological Association, Panel on "Student Activism and the Labor

Movement": “Components of Successful Antisweatshop Activism.” August. San

Francisco.

Panelist, Global Labor and Poverty, Global Studies Association. “The Rise and

Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the USA.”[as given: Three Pillars, Five Women.

The Rise and Decline and Rise (and hopefully) Decline of Sweatshops.] April 24.

Panelist on Global labor and Sweatshops, Global Studies Association. “Resistance to

Sweatshops.”[As given: “A Tale of Two Factories.”] April 24.

Respondent to Screening of Rebels with a Cause March 26; Hartford Independent Media

Center. March 26

Panelist on screening of Fog of War. Bijou Cinema, March 25.

Panelist, “Iraq and the U.S., one year after.” “Flipside” Public Access TV, Worcester,

MA. Broadcast March 29 and subsequent. March 23.

Invited Lecture. “Slaves to Fashion.” Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Luncheon

Research Seminar, Wayne State University, Center for Urban, labor and Metropolitan

Affairs.

Keynote Speech, “Slaves to Fashion.” Mount Allison University, New Brunswick,

Canada. Conference and Teach-in on Sweatshops. January 31.

Exploited Labour: Social Evil or Economic Necessity?” Panelist, Mount Allison

University, New Brunswick, Canada. January 31

2003 “Infant Mortality in New York, 1980-2000. Seminar Presentation University of Michigan

School of Public Health. December 8.

“The Race to the Bottom: Exporting Jobs and Lowering Standards.” Plenary presentation

to National Network of the Committee on Occupation Health and Safety. December 5.

Panel on the Historical Place of the Port Huron Statement. Action Speaks radio program

(WRNI, NPR/ Providence, RI). October 28, broadcast November 2.

“Slaves to Fashion: The New sweatshops here and abroad.” Presentation to Clark

University Board of Trustees. October 24.

Invited Panelist, Plenary "Considering Community Activism: Lessons from the Past for

the Present," Association for Humanist Sociology Annual Meeting, Burlington, VT.

November 1.

Panelist, Author meets critics, Review of Jerry Lembcke, CNN’s Tailwind Tale:

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Vietnam’s Last Great Myth. AHS. November 2.

“South-South: Reframing Labor Rights and World Trade.” Sociology Department

Colloquium, University of Utah. February 28.

“The Rise, Decline and Rise of Sweatshops in Global Context.” Presentation to Peace

Studies Course. Clark University. March 20.

“Jews and Sweatshops in the 20th

Century. “ Presentation to the Jewish Organizing

Initiative Alumni group. March 21.

“Labor Rights as Human Rights.” Lecture at Human Rights Week. University of

Tennessee at Chattanooga. March 27th

.

“Globalization, Sweatshops, and the New International Movement for Social Justice.”

Invited Lecture, Eastern Connecticut State University. April 23.

“Asia comes to Main Street.” Invited Presentation on Worcester, MA to workshop on

recent Immigration to New England Cities. Brown University. April 25.

May Day and the Struggle for the Eight hour day – then and now.” Keynote Presentation

to Student conference on Mayday and Globalization. University of California at Santa

Barbara. May 1.

Panelist at Conference on Critical Globalization Studies. “Global Capital/Global Labor:

universal standards and the future of solidarity” University of California at Santa

Barbara. May 3.

“Predicting Labor Internationalism.” Roundtable discussion. American Sociological

Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta. August.

2002 Paper on Labor Standards in International Trade, “South-South: Reframing The Issue of

Globalization and Labor Rights” with Prof. Anita Chan. Invited participant on

Conference at Beijing University, PRC, January 7-10, 2002.

Eastern Sociological Society. Panelist. Author meets panel session for Friedland and

Sirianni, Civic Renewal. March 8, 2002.

Panelist at the Annual conference (UC Riverside) of the Political Economy of the world

system Section: "South-South: Reframing the Issue of Globalization and Labor Rights"

May 4, 2002

ASA, Co-Organizer and Chair, Panel on Issues in Labor Movements, North and South.

Annual Meeting, August 2002.

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“Labor Rights, Human Rights and World Trade”. Presentation to Capital Forum Feb 4,

2002. [A program for high school teachers, coordinated at Clark.)

Same topic: Clark University, Peace Studies course. March 26,

Second session, March 28th

, 2002.

New York University Law Women Symposium on Labor Conditions and Latina Women

in the Global Market Place. Panelist. “South-South: the Race to the Bottom.”

Same symposium. Panelist: “A ladder of effective anti-sweatshop policy.”

University of California at Santa Barbara, May 1 2002. “Mexico, China and the

American Market: Labor Rights and Neo-Liberalism”

Presentation to the Futures Institute of the Massachusetts Board of Library

Commissioners. “Globalization and Immigration: The Bottom of the Iceberg.”

June 26, 2002.

Presentation to Global Society Course, Clark University. “The New Sweatshops in

Global Context" October 29.

Same Course: Oct. 31: “Policies and Movements Against Sweatshop abuses”

Presentation on Sweatshops in the US. New England Students Against Sweatshops

Regional Conference. November 23.

Comparing the New left of the Sixties and the New New left of the Recent Period.

Presentation to a Harvard University Social Studies Seminar. December 18.

2001

College of the Holy Cross. Department of Sociology. Work and Labor Course. “The

New Sweatshops in Global Context.”

Holy Cross: Race and Poverty in American Cities Urban Politics Course. October 18.

2001.

Panelist, Association for Humanist Sociology, Annual Meeting, Nov. 17, 01 The New

left and new Left

Pennsylvania State University. “The Rise, Decline and Rise of Sweatshops in the U.S.”

October 26. 2001.

Harvard University Social Studies Program. Urban Seminar. Antisweatshop policy.

December 11, 2001.

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Same topic: Clark University Global Society Course. Nov., 2001

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Authors Meet Readers: Appelbaum and Bonacich

and Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angels Apparel Industry. American

Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA, Aug. 18-21.

Chair and organizer: "Learning Solidarity." Socialist Scholars Conference, New York

City. April 14, 2001.

Presenter, " Globalization, Globaloney: Theorizing Globalization." Socialist Scholars

Conference, New York, April 14, 2001.

Panelist on History of SDS Accompanying "Rebels with a Cause." Vermont Film Festival.

Montpelier. March 24, 2001.

"The Antisweatshop Movement compared to Students for a Democratic Society."

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. March 1, 2001, New York City.

Panel on Globalization and Social Movements.

Overview of the Sweatshop Problem. United Students Against Sweatshops Regional

Conference. Holy Cross College. February 24, 2001

Globalization and the sweatshop problem. "Cambridge Public Library. February 13, 2001.

"Vulnerable Labor in Global Capitalism.” Keynote Speaker at Conference on Labour and

Globalization. Hong Kong City University. Jan. 4, 2001

2000

Panelist on History of SDS at Harvard Film Institute Showing of "Rebels with a Cause."

November 19, 2000.

Panelist on History of SDS at Harvard Film Institute showing of Rebels with a Cause.

November 18.

Report on Labor Standards and Sweatshops in Nicaragua. Clark University., Students

Against sweatshops. November 13, 2000

Report on Labor Standards and Sweatshops in Nicaragua. Holy Cross. Latin American

Students Organization. Oct. 30th

, 2000.

Panelist: Globalization and Resistance. Paper: "Comparing the New Left of the Sixties

with the Antisweatshop Movement at the Turn of the 21st Century." Political Economy

of the World System, Preconference. August 12, 2000.

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Organizer, Chair and Discussant. Thematic Session: "The Prospects for Democracy and

Justice in the Global Economy." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

August, 2000.

Clark University. Debate. Two Sides of Globalization. April 18, 2000.

Moderator and Introduction to Panel on Globalization, Labor and the Global South. New

York University Conference on Labor in the 21st Century. April 8, 2000.

Peace Studies Class, Clark University. Sweatshop Solutions. March 28, 2000.

Peace Studies Class, Clark University. The Sweatshop Problem. March 23, 2000.

University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Umass Students Against sweatshops. Panel:

Sweatshops: Issues and Movements. March 1, 2000.

Teach in on Globalization. Labor Rights as Human Rights. Worcester Global Action

Network. February 27, 2000.

Teach-in on the World Trade Organization. Clark University. February 21, 2000.

Brookline Town Democratic Committee. The sweatshop issue. February 16, 2000.

1999 "Hearts Starve: American Sweatshops and the Global Economic Crisis." Assumption

College. February 2, 1999.

Manchester New Hampshire Unitarian Universalist Church: "Hearts Starve.

Accountability and Global Sweatshops." February 15, 1999.

1999 Admitted as expert to testify about labor abuse in New Hampshire Court. Case of

activists leafleting in mall. February 16, 1999.

"Hot Under the Collar: Contradictions, Development and New Theory in the Anti-

sweatshop Movement" Thematic session on "Globalization from Below: Toward a

Global Democracy". Boston. Eastern Sociological Society. March 4, 1999.

"The Eight Hundred Pound Gorilla of the Rag Trade: Retail Concentration, Globalization

and the New Sweatshops." Thematic Session on Restructuring Work. Boston. Eastern

Sociological Society. March 4, 1999.

Invited Panelist: Forum on the Living Wage. Brown University Student Labor Action

Coalition. March 23, 1999.

Invited Presentation to American Jewish Congress Committee on Law and Social Justice.

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"Policy Issues in the Current Anti-Sweatshop Movement." April 9, 1999.

Invited Speech, Rotary Club of Worcester. Worcester in Comparative Perspective.

April 15, 1999.

Presentation to Spouses of Board of Trustees, Clark University. The New Sweatshops

and the Sweat Free Campus Movement. May 7, 1999.

October 21. Invited lecture, Wheaton College: The New left of the Sixties and Nineties

Compared."

October 22. Holy Cross, Sociology Department. The New Sweatshops in the United

States.

October 26. International Studies Stream, Clark University. Core Course. "The New

Sweatshops in Global Context."

October 28. International Studies Stream, Clark University. Core Course. Policies and

Movements to combat sweatshops.

October 28. Boston College. Global Justice Week. Panel on Sweatshops.

October 30. Middlebury College. Northeast Regional Conference of United Students

Against Sweatshops: "Hearts Starve: American Sweatshops in Historical and Global

Context."

November 7th. Worcester Jewish community Center "Torathon”. The Jewish People

and the Sweatshop Problem in the 20th Century.

1999 November 21. Workman's Circle of Boston. The Jewish People and the Sweatshop

Problem in the 20th Century.

December 6. University of Connecticut. Sweatshops and the Holidays.

December 8th. Smith College. Invited Panel. Sweatshops: why and how to combat

them.

1998 University of Connecticut. Labor Education and Center for Puerto Rican Studies in

cooperation with Central Labor Council of Northeast Connecticut. "The New

Sweatshops in America and the World." December 3, 1998.

Social Science History Association. Annual Meeting Chicago. Panelist, Author Meets

Readers Panel, on Nancy Green: Ready to Wear, Ready to Work. November, 1998.

Social Science History Association. Chair of Author meets Reader panel on Cindy

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Hahamovitch, Fruits of Their Labor. November, 1998.

Cornell. Invited speaker. Conference on the Politics of Globalization(s). Session on

Labor and Globalization: "The New Sweatshops." November 6, 7, 1998.

Presentation at Boston University. "The New Sweatshops and the Crisis of Global

Capitalism." CISPES. November 11, 1998.

Colgate University. Invited Lecturer: The New Sweatshops. November 9, 1998.

Colgate University. SDS and the New Left. November 9, 1998.

Presentation at Clark University Open House: Student Research on the Sweatshop Issue

at Clark University. October 24, 1998.

"Hearts Starve: Accountability and the Sweatshop Issue." Invited Lecture to the Annual

Meeting of the United Methodist Women of Central Massachusetts. October 4, 1998.

"The New Sweatshops: How New, How Real, How Many, Why?" Refereed Panel on

Labor Markets and Informal Economy. American Sociological Association, Annual

Meeting. San Francisco. August, 1998.

Invited Panelist, Sweatshops and Campus Sweatshirts. College of the Holy Cross.

April 7, 1998.

"Memory and Resistance: The Triangle Factory Strike and Fire and Women Sweatshop

Workers Then and Now." Organizer, Chair and Co-Presenter. Clark University

International Women's Week. March 17, 1998.

1998 Chair and Organizer. Presentation by Rand Wilson, Communications Coordinator,

International Brotherhood of Teamsters. "The Teamsters Strike at UPS: An Inside

View." Clark University. March 19, 1998.

Sweatshops and Jewish Heritage. Clark University Hillel Society. January 25, 1998.

1997 "Kathie Lee Makes a Difference," Panel on Global Economic Development. Eastern

Sociological Society. Annual Meeting. Baltimore. April, 1997.

"Immigration Restriction: A Sweatshop Nonsolution." Marymount University.

Conference on Sweatshop Solutions: The Academic search for Solutions. May 30, 1997.

Discussant. "The Capitalist State and Globalization" Responding to Stanley Aronowitz

and Bob Jessop at Conference: The Miliband -Poulantzas Debate in Retrospect and

Prospect. CUNY Graduate Center. April 24 - 25, 1997.

Presentation: Sweatshops Immigrants and Imports, Geography Department, University of

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Massachusetts, Amherst. May 9, 1997.

The New Sweatshops. Reunion Weekend. Clark University. May 17, 1997.

Globalization, Production and Labor: Race to the Bottom or Common "Scent." Lecture

at Pantheio Social Science University. Athens, Greece. June 10, 1997.

The Apparel Industry Task Force Report. Presentation to the Massachusetts Interfaith

Commission on Worker Justice, Task Force on Sweatshops. July 10, 1997.

The New Sweatshops in Global Context. Presentation to Boston University Graduate

Student Colloquium. Sept. 16, 1997.

The New Sweatshops. Clark University. Parents Day/Day of Conscience. October 4,

1997.

Globalization, Production and Labor: Race to the Bottom or Common "Scent."

Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social

Organization. October 16, 1997.

The New Sweatshops in the United States. Residential College, University of Michigan.

October 17, 1997.

The New Sweatshops in Global Context. Arlington Street Church. Boston

Massachusetts. October 26, 1997.

1997 The New Sweatshops in Global Context. Amherst College Department of Anthropology

and Sociology. November 16, 1997.

The New Sweatshops in America. Grafton League of Women Voters. December 14,

1997.

1996 "Global Capitalism and the New Sweatshops." With Karen McCormack and Ellen

Rosen. Presented at Eastern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Boston, March 31,

1996.

Organizer, presider and presenter, Panel on "Globalization and the New Economy."

Conference of Veteran Organizers. At Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Mass.

July, 1996.

"The Global Context of the New Sweatshops." With Karen McCormack and Ellen

Rosen. Presented at Society for the Study of Social Problems. Annual Meeting. New

York. August, 1996.

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Organizer, presider, and presenter, Panel on Domestic Sweatshops. "Causes of US

sweatshops." Conference of the International Study Stream: "Against Sweatshops."

Clark University. October 4, 1996.

"Why are Sweatshops Emerging Now?" Invited discussion on Panel on Global

Sweatshops. Northeastern University. Sponsored by Multicultural Affairs and CISPES.

November 23, 1996.

1995 "Global Capital, Global Unions: Impressions, Conditions, Hypotheses" Conference on

Capitalism vs. Democracy. The Study Group on the Foundations of Economic and

Political Democracy, International Political Science Association and the Caucus for a

New Political Science. Suffolk University. June 16-18, 1995.

"Global Capital, Global Unions: Speculations on the Future of Global Unionism." Invited

paper. Panel on the Global Economy. The Eastern Economics Association Annual

Meeting. March 17, 1995.

"Students and Social Change: Agents or Victims?" Invited Lecture. Swarthmore

College, Student Civil Liberties Society. January 23, 1995.

1994 "Labor Movements and Economic Integration in the Short and Long Run". Presentation

to the Fifth Karl Polanyi Conference. The Karl Polanyi Institute and the Austrian

Academy of Sciences. Vienna, Austria, November 13, 1994.

"Global Capitalism and The End of History." Faculty Forum, Eastern Connecticut State

College. Willimantic. November 1, 1994.

1994 "Choose Your Parents Well: Agency versus Structure in Urban Fiscal Stress." American

Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Issues in Marxist Sociology. Los Angeles.

August, 1994.

"Choosing Your Parents Well: Structure, Competence and Corruption in Coping with

Municipal Fiscal Stress." ASA Annual Meeting. with Jean Riesman. Panel on

Transformation of Cities. August, 1994. Los Angeles.

"The Theory of Global Capitalism: Variants of Capitalism on a World Scale." 22 pp.

Selected for presentation at the Political Economy of the World System Conference, at

University of California, Irvine. April 8, 1994.

"Clinton's Social Policy." Invited Lecture at American International College 1994

Symposium "Nation's Problems: The Clinton Response." January 10, 1994.

1993 "Choosing Your Parents Well: Structure versus Corruption in Coping with Fiscal Stress."

With Jean Riesman. 50 pp. Invited paper for McCormack Institute Conference on

Municipal Fiscal Stress, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and

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the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. October, 15, 1993.

"Historical Perspective on Class and Environmental Politics." Invited speech to Jobs and

Environment Campaign, Washington, New Hampshire. September 8, 1993.

1992 "Capital, Labor Control and Foreign Direct Investment: A Cross-National Test of the

Theory of Global Capitalism." Presented at Southern Sociological Society Annual

Meeting, New Orleans, April 12, 1992.

Discussant: Panel on Paradigm Shifts in Urban Sociology. As above.

Seminar on "Global Capitalism: New Stage, New Theory." Institute of Behavioral

Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. January 17, 1992.

Invited Lecture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, International Scholars Program, "Global

Capitalism." February 3, 1992.

1991 Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Utah: Global Capitalism and

The Collapse of Communism. March 11, 1991.

Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Global Capitalism and

Urban Restructuring. April 15, 1991.

1990 Paper, "The Relative Decline of Relative Autonomy: The Political Economy of State

Change." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. April, 1990, Chicago.

1989 University of Massachusetts, Democratic Socialists of America; "Three Crises of

Socialism." November 13, 1989.

Brandeis University, Department of Sociology, Panel Presentation on the "Rise and Fall

of SDS." November 28, 1989.

1988 Paper on Massachusetts Industrial Structure and the Global Economy, Association of

American Geographers. Phoenix. April, 1988.

"The Relative Decline of Relative Autonomy: Global Capitalism and the Political

Economy of State Change." Invited and selected paper for the Conference on State

Change, Institute of Behavioral Science, Program on Political and Economic Change,

University of Colorado, Boulder. May, 1988.

"Power in the Capitalist State." Roundtable Presentation at American Sociological

Association. Annual Meeting. Atlanta. [Accepted, but not read due to schedule conflict].

August, 1988.

1987 Presentation to Massachusetts Industrial Policy Group: "Components of Industrial

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Policy." March 14, 1987.

Invited Presentation to Fair Share Staff: "Historical Perspectives on Community

Organization." June 4, 1987.

Invited Lectures to Framingham State College, Journalism Program, "The Media Frame

and Social Issues," and "Feature Writers and Political Campaigns." October 23, 1987.

Invited Presentation to Clark University-University of Massachusetts Joint Seminar on

Industrial Geography, "Restructuring of the Massachusetts Economy and the Structure of

Power: The Relative Decline of Relative Autonomy of the State." November 6, 1987.

1986 Invited Panelist: "How Did the Student Movements of the 1960's Effect Participants;

How Did They Effect Society?" Conference on the Student Movements of the 1930s and

1960s: American Student Union and Students for a Democratic Society. Long Beach

State University. Long Beach, Ca.

1985 "The Massachusetts Legislature: Substance and Procedure," invited presentation to

Seminar on New England Politics, University of Massachusetts, Masters of Public

Affairs Program, State House, Boston. October, 1985.

"Protest Movements of the Sixties." Invited presentation to the University of

Massachusetts/JFK Library Program in American Culture and History, JFK Library,

Boston. July 3, 1985.

1985 "The Arms Race as an Interest Process," Invited paper for a panel at the Massachusetts

Psychological Association. Annual Meeting. Cambridge, MA. May 31, 1985.

"The New Leviathan: Global Capitalism." With Kent Trachte. Paper presented to the

Section on Political Economy of World Systems of the International Studies Association,

Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. March 6, 1985.

1984 Invited Discussant, Panel on Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions, Eastern Sociological

Society. Annual Meeting. Boston.

Organizer, Thematic Panel on Disinvestment, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Annual Meeting. San Antonio.

Organizer, Panel on Worcester’s Economic Development and State Policy. Sen. Gerard

D'Amico, moderator. February 29, 1984.

1966-1983 Forty (40) Papers or Panels

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member, Campaign Clark Cabinet 2012-

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Chair, Information Technology Committee, 2010-12

Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, Steering committee 2008-

Trustee Shareholder Responsibility Committee 2007-2012

Member, Planning and Budget Review, 2006-2007, 2009-11

Member, Information Technology Committee 2006- 2008

Department Chair for many years at Clark; seven appointments.

Elected Chair of the Faculty: 2000-03; re-elected 2003-2006.

Faculty Compensation Committee, Elected Committee; Chair: 1992-94; 1999-2000

Clark Advisory Committee on Sweatshop Policy: 1999-2000

Admissions Committee, Chair: 1992-3; Member: 1991-94

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member: American Sociological Association.

Eastern Sociological Society

Society for the Study of Social Problems

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member Visiting Team to assess University of Massachusetts -Lowell Department of Sociology,

September 26-28, 20012

Organizer, administrator and chair, 36th

Annual Political Economy of the World System, at Clark

University: ‘Labor, Democracy and Global Capitalism.” April 20-22, 2012

Section on Political Economy of the World System of the American Sociological Association.

Council Member 2001-2004

Member, Distinguished book Award committee, 2004

Chair Elect 2004-2005

Chair, Distinguished book Award committee, 2005

Chair: 2005-2006.

Chair Best Article Committee 2006

Program Committee, Section on Labor and Labor Movements, 2006-2007, 2011-12

Member Book Prize Committee 2007-2008

Member Article Prize committee 2008-09

2005 – Member of the Advisory Committee to the Workers Rights Consortium

Member of the Advisory Committee to SACOM, Hong Kong

2005-2007 Member of the Advisory Committee to China Labor Watch

1995- 97 Book Review Editor, Socialism and Democracy

1994- 98 Editorial Board (Co-Editor), Socialism and Democracy

1994- Associate Editor, Journal of World Systems Research

1991-2012 Referee For: American Sociological Review, Social Problems. Critical Sociology.

Urban Affairs Review (formerly Urban Affairs Quarterly. Youth and Social Change;

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Comparative Politics, Competition and Change. Critical Sociology. Guilford Press; Allyn and

Bacon, HarperCollins. University of California, Santa Cruz, Board of Community Studies.

University of California Press. Community and Society, National Science Foundation, University

of California at Santa Barbara, Brandeis University, Johns Hopkins University Press, Journal of

World Systems Research, City and Community.

2009 Site Review Team, Sociology Department, Eastern Connecticut State University

1987-90 Member, Advisory Committee, Labor Studies Program of the University of

Massachusetts, Boston, College of Professional and Community Service.

1979- 81 Chair, Division of Community Research and Development, Society for the Study

of Social Problems (SSSP).

1979-80 Chair, Elections Committee,

1979 Member, Program Committee,

1983 Member, Task Force on Dislocated Workers, Job Training Partnership

Act, appointed by Secretary of Economic Affairs of the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts.

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS/COMMUNITY SERVICE

1994-98 Member, Wachusett Reservoir Citizens Advisory Committee, Metropolitan

District Commission

1993-2008 Board of Directors, Dynamy [urban experiential education], Worcester, MA

Chair of Admissions Committee: 1994-1999; Chair of Committee on the

Internship Year Program 1999

1993-2000 Board of Directors, Southborough Open Land Foundation; Board of Advisors

1993-1998 Citizens Advisory Board, Metropolitan District Commission, Sudbury Reservoir

Subcommittee

1988-90 Board of Directors, New England Equity Institute

1987-88 Member, Advisory Board, New England Equity Institute

1987-90 senior member and host, Massachusetts Industrial Policy Group.

1985, 1986 Delegate, Massachusetts State Democratic Convention

1989, 1992 Delegate, Massachusetts State Democratic Convention

1984, 90 Alternate, Massachusetts State Democratic Convention.

1984 Member, the Massachusetts Secretary of Labor, Advisory Group on State Job

Creation Policy.

1984 Member, Issues Advisory Board, Paul Pezzella (Candidate for Sheriff of

Worcester County)

1983-84 Liaison to Governor's Commission on the Future of Mature Industries (for

Senator Gerard D'Amico).

1983 Organizer and Presider, Statehouse Forum on Women, Job Training, and

Dislocated Workers, October.

1982-2000, Member, Southborough Town Democratic Committee

2007 –

2008 Delegate, Massachusetts Democratic Convention

2005- Advisory Committee, Workers Rights Consortium

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2007- Advisory Committee, [Hong Kong] SACOM

2012- Elected to Board of Directors of the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium

Elected Vice-President 2013 July 26, 2013