Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman | |
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Milkman at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, February 2006 | |
| Born | December 18, 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | scholar, professor |
| Title | Distinguished Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | The Reproduction of Job Segregation by Sex: A Study of the Changing Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto and Electrical Manufacturing Industries in the 1940s (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Burawoy, |
| Other advisors | David Brody, Michael Paul Rogin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Sub-discipline | Labor, Women's Studies, Immigration, Social Movements |
| Institutions | Graduate Center, CUNY, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Website | http://www.ruthmilkman.info/ |
Ruth Milkman (born December 18, 1954) is an American sociologist of labor and labor movements. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the director of research at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Between 1988 and 2009 Milkman taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she directed the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.