Author Michael Zweig To Lecture At Muhlenberg College
On March 20, noted author and economist Professor Michael Zweig will present a lecture at Muhlenberg College entitled, “What’s Class Got to Do with It? Moral Values and Public Policy,” at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Wednesday, March 15, 2006 01:59 PM
Zweig appears as part of the College’s year-long series, The Ethics and Politics of Identity. This event is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Zweig will explore classism as a question of power, rather than income or life-style. He views classes – the capitalist, middle, and working class – in terms of the relationship among them in the social power grid, and explores the interaction that operate among class, race, and gender.
Zweig is a professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Zweig is also author of several books including The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret, and What’s Class Got to DO With It: American Society in the Twenty-first Century. A longtime social activist, Zweig founded and continues to direct the Center for the Study if Working Class Life.
As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he helped found the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) and today is active in his union, United University Professions (Local 2190, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO), representing 29,000 faculty and professional staff throughout SUNY, and has served two terms on its state executive board. He was recently named "Citizen of the Year" by The Suffolk Times for his writing and community organizing in eastern Long Island around issues of planning, zoning, and land use.
The Ethics and Politics of Identity is a year long series of programs, sponsored by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics , about the ethical challenges that surround the changing categories of social, national, and global identities.
For more information on the series, or to view the schedule of events, please visit: www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
