Laura Clawson

My parents had me out on picket lines too long ago for me to clearly remember, and I participated in the first AFL-CIO Union Summer, but in the end, I came to my current position as senior writer for Working America through online politics. While doing a Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton University and, subsequently, a postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College, I moved from being a commenter at other people’s blogs to a state blogger and a contributing editor at Daily Kos. Blogging led me to find work in the labor movement, where I am just doing a different kind of sociology.