Stony Brook University (MA 1975, Ph.D 1978)[1]Daniel "Dan" Conness Clawson (18 August 1948 – 7 May 2019) was an American sociologist, professor, and activist.
James and Martin Glaberman in Detroit, became an early influence on Clawson's politics and thought as the two read and studied Karl Marx's Das Kapital together.
[4] For his doctoral studies, Clawson attended Stony Brook University and completed a dissertation under the supervision of Michael Schwartz.
Clawson was the former president of the Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ), an American organization founded to produce dialog among scholars, artists, and unions,[7][8] and a founding member of the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), a grass-roots organization advocating for free higher education in the state of Massachusetts.
[13] Clawson first argues that union membership in the United States has in the past expanded in momentary periods of accelerated growth, not incrementally, and often in tandem with other social movements.