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Michael Goldfield
Born(1943-05-02)May 2, 1943[
Political scientist
InstitutionsWayne State University (1992-present)
Cornell University (1984-1992)[3]

Michael Goldfield (May 2, 1943) is an American political scientist, author, labor activist, and former student activist. He is an emeritus professor of industrial relations and human resources in the department of political science at

Detroit, Michigan, and a faculty associate at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.[4][5]

Early life and activism: Sojourner Truth Organization 1968-1972

Prior to his academic career, Goldfield was an activist and organizer, first with the

industrial unions, the Organization as a whole remained critical to unions and a significant tendency within the Organization remained skeptical of membership involving themselves in trade union politics.[9], a
As one of the Organization's most experienced workplace organizers, and a member whose rank-and-file coworkers encouraged him to run as a shop steward at the Harvester plant, Goldfield expressed enthusiasm in greater union involvement, a decision for which certain membership within the Organization criticized him.

In 1973, Goldfield, who felt that this criticism led to his marginalization within the Organization, co-wrote a position paper endorsed by the Organization's Westside branch entitled "Crisis in the STO," which issued criticisms of numerous aspects of Organization's positions, from class consciousness to its theoretical positions on party formation.[10] After the release of the paper, Goldfield and his supporters eventually departed the Sojourner Truth Organization, resulting in the Organization's first split.[11]

Career

Goldfield has contributed to scholarly discussions on the

Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, and the growth of anti-union consulting agencies, which businesses employ to deter union organizing.[14] Goldfield's contribution to the debate on union density decline has been recognized as significant in that it attributes the decline in union power not to American demographic and industrial shifts but instead to an increasing political hostility to unions in the United States.[15]

In Goldfield's second book, The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics, he argues that progressive and

Francis Fox Piven referred to the book as a "magisterial review of the role of racism in American history".[17]

Goldfield has also participated in debates within political science on the origins of the

Neo-Marxist theories of the state, published in 1980 in the article "Neo-Marxist Theories of the State” as they apply to “the Case of the New Deal”" in Politics & Society, Goldfield issued a defense culminating in an exchange in American Political Science Review. Skocpol's defense of her critiques, and her subsequent assessment of Goldfield's arguments in what have become known as the Wagner Act Debates, are regarded as an important moment in the development of academic theories of the state.[18]

Selected bibliography

Solely authored books

Co-authored books

Edited Volumes

  • (2008) Labour, Globalization and the State: Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism edited by Debdas Banerjee and Michael Goldfield (London: Routledge) (
    ISBN 0415558905
    )

Notes

a.^ For a synopsis of this position within the Sojourner Truth Organization see "The Steward's Position" published in 1973, which closes with the lines "The call to stewardship will probably be heard by any communist who is doing good mass work. It should be accepted for what it is ... a call to take a greater role of leadership ... To the extent that it is a call to leadership, the communist should respond not by taking the steward's position but by creating an alternative to it."[19]

References

  1. JSTOR 419150
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0226301037
    .
  3. ^ "Michael Goldfield Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Wayne State University. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  4. ^ "Michael Goldfield". College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Wayne State University. 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  5. ^ "Michael Goldfield". Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. University of Washington. 2022.
  6. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 68-69.
  7. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 29.
  8. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 69.
  9. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 66-68.
  10. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 69-71.
  11. ^ Staudenmaier 2012, p. 72.
  12. ^ Aronowitz 1992, p. xvii.
  13. ^ Aronowitz 1992, p. 427.
  14. JSTOR 2781040
    .
  15. ^ Aronowitz 1992, p. 405.
  16. doi:10.14452/MR-050-04-1998-08_4
    . Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  17. ^ "The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics". Books. The New Press. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  18. S2CID 144786895
    .
  19. ^ Sojourner Truth Organization (1973). "The Steward's Position". Workplace Papers.

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