The renowned Newberry Library, the independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, recently highlighted the work of UC Santa Cruz pioneer faculty member and Professor Emeritus G. William Domhoff at its annual Labor History Seminar Book Symposium. Each year the symposium features a significant new work in the field of labor history to discuss.
Professor Domhoff’s latest work, The Myth of Liberal Ascendancy, was the featured piece. Published in November 2013, Domhoff’s book chronicles the rise of corporate dominance in America following WWII. Specifically, he examines how this has impacted American workers. The book explores how the labor market was undermined by a backlash against the triumphs of the civil rights, feminist and environmental movements of the late 1960s.
The symposium was moderated by Professor Erik Gellman from Roosevelt University and respondents included distinguished labor historians Eric Arnesen, George Washington University; Shana Bernstein, Northwestern University; Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University; Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago.
Professor Domhoff, a professor in the Sociology Department, retired from UC Santa Cruz in 1994, is known for his classic text, Who Rules America, which is now in its 7th edition.
