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Beverly Judith Silver | |
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| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Binghamton |
| Thesis | Labor Unrest and Capital Accumulation on a World Scale (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Terence Hopkins |
| Other advisors | Immanuel Wallerstein, Melvyn Dubofsky [1] |
Beverly J. Silver (born 1957) is an American scholar of labor and development whose work has been translated into over twelve languages. She is a professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. [2]
Silver grew up in Detroit during a period of intense working-class struggle. [3] She was active in the United Farm Workers Union and the solidarity campaigns for Chile. Silver received her B.A. in economics from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton, where she was part of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. During this time she collaborated with a number of scholars including Giovanni Arrighi, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Terence Hopkins and contributed to the development of the school of world-systems analysis. For many years she was a member of the World Labor Research Group at the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton.[ citation needed ]
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