Daniel Galvin

Daniel J. Galvin (Ph.D. Yale University) is a political scientist whose research interests include labor policy and politics, worker organizations, labor standards enforcement, organizing and collective action, the U.S. presidency, political parties and groups, and American government. His forthcoming book, Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights, examines the changing nature of workers’ rights over the last half-century and the political development of nonprofit alt-labor groups that are supporting and organizing predominantly low-wage immigrant workers and workers of color in their fight for their rights in the political and economic arenas. Galvin is also the author of Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, co-editor of Rethinking Political Institutions: the Art of the State, and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters.