Ruth Milkman

Ruth Milkman is a sociologist and author who has studied and written about labor, gender, unionism, and class. Her most recent books include Immigration Matters, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat, and On Gender, Labor, and Inequality. She spent twenty-one years as a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and for several of those years she was director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. In 2010 Milkman moved back to New York City. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the City University of New York Graduate Center and chairs the labor-studies department at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She also served as the 2016 president of the American Sociological Association.