Event End: January 23, 2014 05:00 PM
Event Location: SSMS Conference Room 2135
Event Details:
Speaker:
G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Psychology and Sociology at UC Santa Cruz
G. William Domhoff, a major scholar who has published one of sociology’s bestsellers, and an outstanding speaker, gives the Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture
WHO RULES AMERICA TODAY?
THE TRIUMPH OF THE CORPORATE RICH
Thursday, January 23 , 2014
4:00 PM
SSMS Conference Room 2135
Whether we look at the rising income of the top 1%, the decline in union density, the decline in the purchasing power of the minimum wage since 1968, or the fate of a wide range of legislation, the corporate rich have triumphed over their adversaries in the liberal-labor-environmental coalition. This talk explains that triumph through an archival and interview study of the corporate community's string of successes beginning in the late 1930s as seen through the eyes of two corporate policy-discussion groups, the Committee for Economic Development and the Council on Foreign Relations.
G. William Domhoff is research professor in psychology and sociology at UC Santa Cruz. His first book, now in its seventh edition, Who Rules America?. is a bestseller arguing that the United States is dominated by an elite ownership class, both politically and economically. He developed the influential approach of power structure analysis, in the grand tradition of C Wright Mills.