Work and Academic Politics
Subtitle: A Journeyman's Story
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: November 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780765800800
Subjects: Biography: general; Political science & theory; Social theory; Sociology - General; Form, William Humbert,; Biography / Autobiography; Universities and colleges; Social Science; Sociology; USA; History; Educators; Biography; United States; 1917-; 20th century; Departments; Sociologists
Description: "Over the course of a long and distinguished academic career William Form has gained renown as a major scholar in the areas of American labor politics, institutional analysis, and educational issues surrounding the experience of ethnicity and assimilation. Much of his scholarly work derived from his own experience as the son of Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century seeking integration into the mainstream of American society.

As with other American ethnic groups the entrance into elementary, secondary and higher education involved sacrifice and gain. Moreover, the period of Form's academic career saw momentous changes in study of the social sciences. In Work and Academic Politics: A Journeyman's Story, Form reflects on his own experience to provide an examplary intellectual autobiography against the background of modernity and change in America."--BOOK JACKET.