Berkeley's Betrayal - Public Sociology @ Berkeley - University of ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis research project has been a collaborative effort. Many individuals contributed time, thought,and creative energy. We want to thank our friends and colleagues who contributed to the conceptualization,research and writing: Hilary Abell, Jeremy Blasi, Perrin Elkind, Keyvan Kashkooli,Isaac Martin, Sara Riese, Teresa Sharpe, Cinzia Solari, Carl Somers, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, AnnMarie Wood, , and members of the Fall 2001 Seminar, “CEOs and Welfare Queens: How AmericansBenefit from Their Government.” We also want to thank Professors Arlie Hochschild, BarrieThorne and Kim Voss in the Department of Sociology as well as Stuart Tannock in the GraduateSchool of Education for their advice, feedback, and support. We are particularly grateful toProfessor Michael Burawoy for providing intellectual stimulation and support for our adventure inPublic Sociology.We also thank the staff members and rank and file leaders of AFSCME and CUE who met with usduring the early stages of this project and who have supported our efforts to educate the campuscommunity about wages and working conditions at Cal. Thanks to Jo Ellen Green Kaiser (UCBPh.D. 1992) of Tikkun (www.tikkun.org) and LiP (www.lipmagazine.org) magazines for her copyeditinghelp. And thanks to Design Action and Inkworks Press for designing and printing thisreport.Finally, this report would not have come into being were it not for the inspiration, mentorship,and unwavering support we received from Barbara Ehrenreich. For this we are very grateful.ABOUT THE AUTHORSGretchen Purser is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She hasa BA in sociology from Smith College, where she held a leadership position in the Student LaborAction Coalition. Her research focuses on the contingent labor market and urban poverty in theUnited States.Amy Schalet (Ph.D.) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Health Research andPolicy at the University of California at San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 2003 and her BA in Social Studies from Harvard University. Shespecializes in comparative cultural sociology and has researched family life, culture, and the welfarestate in the United States and the Netherlands.Ofer Sharone is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has aBA in economics from the University of Illinois and a JD from Harvard Law School. He specializesin the sociology of work and researches overwork and unemployment in the United States andIsrael.Teresa Gowan (Ph.D.) is a Simon Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the Universityof Manchester in the United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley in 2003 and her BA in American Studies from the University of Manchester.She specializes in the comparative study of work and homelessness.Tom Medvetz is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Hereceived an A.B. in English and Sociology from Franklin & Marshall College in 1998 and an M.A. inSociology from Berkeley in 2000. His dissertation research focuses on the history of American thinktanks.For contact information and an electronic version of this report,visit www.berkeleysbetrayal.org.34