Book Talk | Ryan Patrick Murphy | Teamsters Metropolis
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on Wednesday, October 29th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Ryan Patrick Murphy. He will discuss his new book Teamsters Metropolis with Patrick Egan and Ruth Milkman.
Ryan Patrick Murphy is Associate Professor of History at Earlham College. His book Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice received the 2017 David Montgomery Award for best book in Labor History from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
Patrick J. Egan is a political scientist who studies Americans’ political attitudes and behavior and their consequences for public policy, partisanship, and identity. He’s a Professor at NYU’s Wilf Family Department of Politics, with courtesy appointments in NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and NYU’s Department of Sociology. Egan is a faculty convener for the Identities & Ideologies Project @ NYU and a recipient of the NYU Golden Dozen Award in recognition for outstanding contributions to learning in the classroom. Egan is the author of Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics (Cambridge University Press), which investigates the origins of issue ownership within parties, showing that in fact the parties deliver neither superior performance nor popular policies on the issues they “own.” His peer-reviewed research has been published in journals including Nature, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science.
Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent books are: Immigration Matters (co-edited with Deepak Bhargava and Penny Lewis, New Press, 2021), Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat Polity, 2020) and On Gender, Labor and Inequality(Illinois, 2016). Her early research focused on the impact on U.S. women workers of economic crisis and war in the 1930s and 1940s. She went on to study the restructuring of the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on workers and their union in the 1980s and 1990s; in that period she also analyzed the labor practices of Japanese-owned factories in California. More recently she has written extensively about low-wage immigrant workers, analyzing their employment conditions as well as the dynamics of immigrant labor organizing. She co-authored a 2013 study of California’s paid family leave program, focusing on its impact on employers and workers. She served as the 2016 President of the American Sociological Association; her presidential address focused on Millennial-generation social movements. She has also conducted extensive policy-oriented research on such topics as wage theft, unionization trends, paid sick leave, and the aging workforce. After 21 years as a sociology professor at UCLA, where she directed the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment from 2001 to 2008, she returned to New York City in 2010. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.