In my co-authorship with Paul Durrenberger, Prof. of Anthropology, Penn State University, we have striven to write with a fresh voice. We don't believe academic writing needs to by dry or tedious, though some journals still insist on that. Our work relates to a study done for Local 73 Service Employees International Union between 1994 and 1998 and another of Teamsters Local 705 and 1199P of SEIU. These are a few examples out of a half dozen which have been published.
This piece appeared in American Anthropologist, this country’s top anthropological journal, in December 1999. It is part of a series of academic papers resulting from an anthropological study of a local union. Please note that all charts and graphs were removed in this online version.
This piece appeared in Anthropology and Humanism, December 1997.It is one of the last in a series of papers resulting from an anthropological study of a local union.
