AT THE SHEPHERDSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY, TUESDAY NOVEMBER  14, 2:30-4:30 (145 Higbee Lane, off Potomac Farms Drive)

Class, Race & Gender

Michael Zweig
  
Nov 14 2:30PM

Michael Zweig | Book Release & Signing | Nov 14 at 2:30PM

This is a book for those who want to understand the underlying conditions animating today’s social justice movements by an author who combines scholarly writing for a broad audience & inspired teaching with his own participation in the movements he writes about.

An emeritus professor of economics, SUNY Stony Brook, Zweig was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life, recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2014 received the Working Class Studies Association award for lifetime contributions to working class studies. His four appearances on the PBS Bill Moyers Journal established him as an important commentator on class in America. His previous books are: Religion and Economic Justice; The Working Class Majority; & What’s Class Got to Do With It? As a film maker he was executive producer of a documentary about the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour; and in 2009 he wrote, produced, & directed Why Are We in Afghanistan? which won the Studs Terkel Award from the Working Class Studies Association. Zweig will be signing books.
Joining Zweig for a discussion of his book will be Everett Ehrlich, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs & Howard M. Wachtel, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, American University

HOWARD M. WACHTEL

EV EHRLICH

Professor Emeritus of Economics, American University, writes about globalization in the world economy and international money, labor and the American economy, & economic transformations in Europe. The author of four books & over 100 articles, he has lectured in 15 countries; was acting dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (1997-1999); twice department chair; Director of American University’s Paris Semester (1994-1997); & Founding Director of the Center for Israel Studies. While based in Washington, DC, he pursued an international career with appointments at the London School of Economics; the American Academy in Berlin; Hebrew University; American University in Paris; & the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He lives in Shepherdstown, WV.

Somewhat Retired President of ESC Company, an economics consulting firm whose diverse clients have included financial institutions, climate advocacy groups, Internet Service Providers, Felix Rohatyn, and the professional sports unions in baseball, hockey, and soccer. He has served as the Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (Clinton I), and in senior positions at Unisys Corporation, the Committee for Economic Development, and the Congressional Budget Office.  He was for eight years a regular commentator on NRP’s Morning Edition: has published two novels (Big Government and Grant Speaks, both Warner Books) and his all-economist leftist band, Red Shadow: The Economics Rock and Roll Band has released two records (both on Physical Records, and wherever good music is pirated). Father of three, grandfather of five, and husband of one, he lives outside of Charles Town, WV.

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