Dr. Miriam Golden, director of the Center for Comparative and Global Research at UCLA, will address the question “Is Globalization Bad for Labor?” on Friday, April 18, at 12:15 p.m. at the Hampton Room of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons on the Scripps College Campus. This talk, part of the European Union Center of California Spring 2003 Lecture Series, is free and open to the public. For additional program information, please call the European Union Center, (909) 607-8103.
With interests and research projects ranging from labor relations and trade unions to Western European political corruption, Dr. Miriam Golden is the author of Labor Divided and Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss, the latter a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory, Golden’s innovative text illustrates a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 in Japan, Italy, and Britain.
Recently, Golden collaborated on a large National Science Foundation project that produced a benchmark dataset on unions, employers, collective bargaining, and industrial relations in Europe used by hundreds of researchers around the world. In 2000, Golden was one of 18 leading social scientists selected as visiting scholars-in-residence with the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate and research her chosen topic, “Political Patronage, Bureaucracy, And Corruption In Postwar Italy.”
Golden received both her master’s and doctoral degrees in government from Cornell University; she currently teaches courses on comparative politics and political corruption at UCLA, and is the founding director of UCLA’s Center for Comparative and Global Research, an institute designed to foster the scientific study of topics from a comparative and international perspective.
Previously, Golden was a research fellow and visiting scholar at the University of Bologna, Italy, the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and at several prestigious American schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Stanford Universities.
The European Union Center of California, housed on the Scripps College campus, sponsors Dr. Golden’s appearance. Part of a network of EU Centers nationwide, the EU Center of California seeks to promote education, scholarly research, and public understanding of European integration and its consequences.