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Professor Appelbaum is a well-known analyst of global industrial relations. He has published extensively in the areas of social theory, urban sociology, public policy, the globalization of business, and the sociology of work and labor. The book has received many favorable reviews. Appelbaum's visit to campus is being sponsored by the department of sociology and anthropology, with support from the University's Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee, the department of communications, the department of political science, the department of economics, and the Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities.