Dan Clawson

{{Short description|American sociologist (1948–2019)}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Daniel Conness Clawson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|08|18}} | birth_place = Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|05|07|1948|08|18}} | death_place = Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | boards =  | spouse = Mary Ann Clawson | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = Ph.D | alma_mater = Washington University in St. Louis (BA 1970)<p>Stony Brook University (MA 1975, Ph.D 1978)<ref name=cv2017>{{cite web |url=https://www.umass.edu/sociology/sites/default/files/Clawson%20Dan%20vita%202017%20October.pdf |title=VITA Dan Clawson |author= |date=October 2017 |website=College of Social & Behavioral Sciences - Sociology |publisher=University of Massachusetts, Amherst }}</ref></p> | thesis_title = Class Struggle and the Rise of Bureaucracy | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302911978 | thesis_year = 1978<ref name=diss>{{cite thesis |last1=Clawson |first1=Daniel Conness |date=1978 |title=Class Struggle and the Rise of Bureaucracy |type=PhD |publisher=Stony Brook University |oclc= 1148216251 |id={{ProQuest|302911978}} }}</ref> | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Michael Schwartz<ref name=firstbook>{{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |date=1980 |title=Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: The Transformation of U.S. Industry, 1860-1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/bureaucracylabor00claw |url-access=limited |location=New York, NY |publisher=Monthly Review Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/bureaucracylabor00claw/page/n6 9] |isbn= 9780853455431}}</ref> | academic_advisors = Charles Perrow<ref name =firstbook /> | influences =  | era = | discipline = Sociologist | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1978-2019) | doctoral_students =  | notable_students = Jane McAlevey | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Daniel "Dan" Conness Clawson''' (18 August 1948 – 7 May 2019) was an American sociologist, professor, and activist. Clawson was Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and former executive committee member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Education Association.

==Life== Clawson was born 18 August 1948 in Alexandria, Virginia but was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Clawson first attended Carleton College but later transferred to Washington University in St. Louis where he graduated in 1970. Clawson attended Students for a Democratic Society meetings at Washington University though he did not join the organization. At Washington University, Clawson met George Rawick who later came to be his mentor. Rawick, who had associated with Marxist intellectuals C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman in Detroit, became an early influence on Clawson's politics and thought as the two read and studied Karl Marx's ''Das Kapital'' together.<ref name=solidarityobit>{{cite magazine |last1=Baker |first1=Karin |date=July–August 2019 |title=Daniel Clawson ¡Presente! |url=https://solidarity-us.org/atc/201/obit-dan-clawson/ |magazine=Against the Current |location=Detroit, MI |publisher=Solidarity }}</ref> For his doctoral studies, Clawson attended Stony Brook University and completed a dissertation under the supervision of Michael Schwartz.<ref name=firstbook />

On May 7, 2019, Clawson died of a heart attack. Clawson was married to Mary Ann Clawson, professor of sociology emeritus at Wesleyan University and father to Laura Clawson, a sociologist and editor at the Daily Kos.<ref name=asaobit>{{cite web |url=http://www.rc44labour.org/dan-clawson-1948-2019/ |title=Dan Clawson, 1948 – 2019 |last1=Milkman |first1=Ruth |author-link=Ruth Milkman |date=2019 |website=RC44 – Research Committee on Labour Movements |publisher=International Sociological Association }}</ref>

===Activism=== Clawson was a labor activist, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and the former president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors.<ref name=phenom>{{cite web |url=http://phenomonline.org/remembering-dan-clawson/ |title=The Passing of Dan Clawson |date=2019 |website=PHENOMOnline |publisher=Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts }}</ref> Clawson held leadership roles in numerous progressive organizations. Clawson was the former president of the Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ), an American organization founded to produce dialog among scholars, artists, and unions,<ref name=sawsj>{{cite book |last1= Pfister |first1=Joel |date=2006 |title=Critique for What?: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |pages=203–204 }}</ref><ref name=umassobit>{{cite web |url=https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/obituary-dan-clawson-sociology-professor |title=Obituary: Dan Clawson, Sociology Professor, 70 |author= |date=May 9, 2019 |website=News & Media Relations |publisher=University of Massachusetts Amherst }}</ref> and a founding member of the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), a grass-roots organization advocating for free higher education in the state of Massachusetts.<ref name=phenom />

==Academic career== Clawson's entire professorial career was spent at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he also held an appointment at the university's Center for Research on Families. Clawson also served as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation from 2011 to 2012.<ref name=russellsage>{{cite web |url=https://www.russellsage.org/visiting-scholars/dan-clawson |title=Dan Clawson |author= |date=2011 |website=Visiting Scholars |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation }}</ref> Clawson also served as an editor for two American Sociological Association publications, including ''Contemporary Sociology'' from 1995 to 1997 and to the Association's ''Rose Series'' from 2000 to 2005.<ref name=ruthobit>{{cite web |url=https://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/jun-jul-aug-2019/announce/obituaries-0 |title=Obituary - Dan Clawson |last1=Gerstell |first1=Naomi |last2=Robert |first2=Zussman |date=2019 |website=Footnotes |publisher=American Sociological Association }}</ref>

===''The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements''=== Clawson's ''The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements'' was published in 2003. The book was the subject of two review symposiums, one in ''Critical Sociology''<ref name=critsoc>{{cite journal |author= |s2cid=220900106 |date=2005 |title=Notes from the Editor |journal=Critical Sociology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=311–312 |doi=10.1163/1569163053946156 }}</ref> and a second in ''Labor History''.<ref name=labhistsymp>{{cite journal |last1=Phelan |first1=Craig |s2cid=220407290 |date=2004 |title=Editorial Note: The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements |url= https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/755/|journal=Labor History |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=333 |doi=10.1080/0023656042000256252 }}</ref> ''The Next Upsurge'' contributes to debates on the causes for the fall in labor union membership in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as strategies for revitalizing membership growth.<ref name=clawsonrev>{{cite journal |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |s2cid=144423554 |date=2012 |title=Labor in Struggle |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=41 |issue=6 |pages=747–755 |doi= 10.1177/0094306112462556a|jstor=41722726 }}</ref> Clawson first argues that union membership in the United States has in the past expanded in momentary periods of accelerated growth, not incrementally, and often in tandem with other social movements. Clawson argues that part of the explanation for the decline of American organized labor was its failure to ally with one such moment of societal unrest manifested in the social movements of the 1960s, and that in order for labor unions to grow in membership again they must build solidarity with other contemporary progressive social movements. ''The Next Upsurge'' argues that to do this the American labor movement must reject business unionism and instead embrace social movement unionism in the form of greater rank and file membership control and prioritize social justice.<ref name=upsurgerev>{{cite journal |last1=Carty |first1=Victoria |date=2005 |title=Review: The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements by Dan Clawson |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=110 |issue=6 |pages=1854–1856 |doi=10.1086/432405 }}</ref>

==Bibliography== ===Solely authored books=== * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |date=2003 |title=The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=ILR Press |jstor=10.7591/j.ctv3mtbnp |isbn= 9781501722578}} * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |date=1980 |title=Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: The Transformation of U.S. Industry, 1860-1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/bureaucracylabor0000claw |url-access=registration |location=New York, NY |publisher=Monthly Review Press |isbn= 9780853455431}}

===Co-authored books=== * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |last2=Gerstel |first2=Naomi |date=2014 |title=Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules |location=New York |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn= 9781610448437}} * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |last2=Page |first2=Max |date=2011 |title=The Future of Higher Education |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 9781138168923}} * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |last2=Neustadtl |first2=Alan |last3=Weller |first3=Mark |date=1998 |title=Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy |url=https://archive.org/details/dollarsvoteshowb0000claw |url-access=registration |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn= 9781566396264}} * {{cite book |last1=Clawson |first1=Dan |last2=Neustadtl |first2=Alan |last3=Scott |first3=Denise |date=1992 |title=Money Talks: Corporate PACS and Political Influence |url=https://archive.org/details/moneytalkscorpor00claw/page/8 |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |isbn= 9780465026807}}

===Edited books=== * {{cite book |editor-last=Clawson |editor-first=Dan |date=1998 |title=Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books |location=Amherst, MA |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |url=https://archive.org/details/requiredreadings0000unse |url-access=registration |isbn= 9781558491533 }}

===Co-edited books=== * {{cite book |editor-last1=Kerrissey |editor-first1=Jasmine |editor-last2=Weinbaum |editor-first2=Eve |editor-last3=Hammonds |editor-first3=Clare |editor-last4=Juravich |editor-first4=Tom |editor-last5=Clawson |editor-first5=Dan |editor-link4=Tom Juravich |date=2020 |title=Labor in the Time of Trump |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=ILR Press |isbn= 9781501746628 }} * {{cite book |editor-last1=Clawson |editor-first1=Dan |editor-last2=Zussman |editor-first2=Robert |editor-last3=Misra |editor-first3=Joya |editor-last4=Gerstel |editor-first4=Naomi |editor-last5=Stokes |editor-first5=Randall |editor-last6=Anderton |editor-first6=Douglas L. |editor-last7=Burawoy |editor-first7=Michael |editor-link6=Douglas Anderton |editor-link7=Michael Burawoy |date=2007 |title=Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century |location=Berkeley, CA |publisher=University of California Press |isbn= 9780520251380 }} * {{cite book |editor-last1=Gerstel |editor-first1=Naomi |editor-last2=Clawson |editor-first2=Dan |editor-last3=Zussman |editor-first3=Robert |date=2002 |title=Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries |url=https://archive.org/details/familiesatworkex0000unse |url-access=registration |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |isbn= 9780826513977}}

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