Richard A. Greenwald, PhD

Richard A. Greenwald is a historian, author and social critic as well as a college professor. His scholarly work deals with the interestion of work, business and American politics. He is graduate of the City University of New York, he received his PhD in American History from New York University. Richard has published in both scholarly and popular journals, newspapers,and magazines. He has testified as an expert witness on workplace issues in federal court, consulted on a number of educational and cultural projects, and remains involved in the intellectual life of Gotham. He lives with his wife and children in New York City.

Richard Greenwald

Richard is available to talk to your group. He regularly lectures to businesses, public and community groups on many topics. He can lecture on transformations of the American workplace and businesses, topics in New York City history, workers and unions, industrial relations, the Triangle Fire, NYC politics, sweatshops, the NYC Waterfront,urban culture, urban development, and globalization and the modern economy.

He is a "Speaker in the Humanities" for the New York Humanities Council. If you have a public, non-profit community group, the Council will arrange for Richard's lecture. To find out more contact the NY Humanities Council or for further information about have Richard talk to your group contact him at rich.greenwald@​mac.com

Selected Works

Books
Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (Routledge, 2003)
Co-edited Collection of Essays on the history of the American Sweatshop.
Recent Articles & Essays
"Are Freelancers Small Business Owners?"
Businessweek (On-Line) August 2009
Our Coffee, Ourselves
In These Times, Dec 2009
Books in Progress
Work in Progress: Labor Pains: The Past, Present & Future of Work in America
A Co-Edited Collection of Essays by Leading Intellectuals on Work in America Under Contract with The New Press
Work in Progress: "C. Wright Mills and the Transformation of the Postwar American Left"
A biography of the sociologist and radical and intellectual C. Wright Mills
Work in Progress: "World in a Box: Containerization, the Global Economy and the Port of New York Since 1945"
Under Contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press for their "Business, Politics and Society Series"

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