Beverly J. Silver (born 1957) is an American scholar of labor and development whose work has been translated into over twelve languages. She is a professor of

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Training and academic career

Silver grew up in

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during a period of intense working-class struggle. She was active in the United Farm Workers Union and the solidarity campaigns for

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, where she was part of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. During this time she collaborated with a number of scholars including

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Publications

Monographs

*Silver, Beverly J.; ''Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870'' (2003), and since translated into Chinese, Korean, German, Polish, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish. *Silver, Beverly J. & Arrighi, Giovanni; ''Chaos and Governance in the Modern World-System'' (1999). *Silver, Beverly J., Arrighi, Giovanni and Dubofsky, Melvyn, editors; "Labor Unrest in the World-Economy, 1870-1990", special issue of ''Review'' (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pages 1–206.

Journal articles and book chapters

*Arrighi, Giovanni; Silver Beverly J. and Brewer, Benjamin D.; “Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the North-South Income Divide: A Rejoinder”, ''Studies in Comparative International Development'', vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2005. *Arrighi, Giovanni; Silver, Beverly J. and Brewer, Benjamin D.; “Response”, ''Studies in Comparative International Development'', 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 39-42 *Arrighi, Giovanni; Silver, Beverly J. and Brewer, Benjamin D.; “Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide”, ''Studies in Comparative International Development'', 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 3-31 *Arrighi Giovanni and Silver, Beverly J.; “Capitalism and World (Dis)Order”, ''Review of International Studies'', 27, December, 2001, 961-983 *Silver, Beverly J.; “Labor Upsurges: From Detroit to Ulsan and Beyond”, ''Critical Sociology'', vol. 31, no. 3, pages 439-452, 2005. *Silver, Beverly J.; “Labor, Globalization and World Politics”, in ''Critical Globalization Studies'', edited by Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson, Routledge Press, 2005 *Silver, Beverly J.; “Labor, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in Historical Perspective”, in ''Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System'', edited by Berthold Unfried, Marcel van der Linden and Christine Schindler (ITH, vol. 38), ''Akademische Verlagsanstalt'',

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, 2004 *Silver, Beverly J.; “Rejoinder”, response to Symposium of Reviews of Beverly J. Silver’s "Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870", in ''In Critical Solidarity'' (American Sociological Association), Winter 2003 Reprinted in ''Debate'', (

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), Spring 2004 *Silver, Beverly J.and Arrighi, Giovanni; “Polanyi’s ‘Double Movement’: The Belle Époques of U.S. and British World Hegemony Compared”, ''Politics and Society'', June 2003 *Silver, Beverly J. and Arrighi, Giovanni; “Workers North and South” in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors, ''Socialist Register 2001'' (Theme: Working Classes, Global Realities). London: Merlin Press, 2000, 51-74 * Silver, Beverly J. : “Arbeiterbewegung, Globalisierung und Weltpolitik: Dynamik der Gegenwart in welthistorischer Sicht", in:

Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung ''Arbeit - Bewegung - Geschichte'' ("''Labour - Movement - History''") is an academic journal covering the history of labour and other social movements. It was established in 2002 as ''Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung ...

, No. I/2004 (German Language).

Scholarly acclaim for ''Forces of Labor''

''Forces of Labor'' won the highest book award in 2005 from the American Sociological Association, the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.

References

External links

* * 1957 births Living people American sociologists Johns Hopkins University faculty Writers from Detroit Place of birth missing (living people) Barnard College alumni Binghamton University alumni American women sociologists 21st-century American women {{North America-sociologist-stub