Daniel "Dan" Conness Clawson was an American sociologist, professor, and activist.
11 Facts About Dan Clawson
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Dan Clawson was born 18 August 1948 in Alexandria, Virginia but was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Dan Clawson first attended Carleton College but later transferred to Washington University in St Louis where he graduated in 1970.
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Dan Clawson attended Students for a Democratic Society meetings at Washington University though he did not join the organization.
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At Washington University, Dan Clawson met George Rawick who later came to be his mentor.
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Dan Clawson was a labor activist, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and the former president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors.
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Dan Clawson was the former president of the Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice, an American organization founded to produce dialog among scholars, artists, and unions, and a founding member of the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, a grass-roots organization advocating for free higher education in the state of Massachusetts.
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Dan Clawson served as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation from 2011 to 2012.
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Dan Clawson served as an editor for two American Sociological Association publications, including Contemporary Sociology from 1995 to 1997 and to the Association's Rose Series from 2000 to 2005.
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Dan Clawson first argues that union membership in the United States has in the past expanded in momentary periods of accelerated growth, not incrementally, and often in tandem with other social movements.
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Dan Clawson argues that part of the explanation for the decline of American organized labor was its failure to ally with one such moment of societal unrest manifested in the social movements of the 1960s, and that in order for labor unions to grow in membership again they must build solidarity with other contemporary progressive social movements.