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WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN?
How do we explain social phenomena as diverse as 9/11, pay inequality or urban riots? Or how about Hurricane Katrina and the after effects in New Orleans : is it global warming? Or is the state responsible? Or perhaps it's all due to globalisation?
Laurie Taylor meets ProfessorCharles Tilly who discusses the explanations put forward as to why these things happen.
Charles Tilly, Professor of Social Science at Columbia University is visiting the London School of Economics to deliver his lecture entitled 'Why (and How) do things happen?'
TAXI: CABS AND CAPITALISM IN NEW YORK CITY
Biju Mathew , Professor of Business at Rider University, New Jersey and member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, discusses his new book Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City .
Laurie Taylor talks to Biju Mathew about his research on the lives of the recently arrived immigrant population of NYC taxi drivers, the huge structural and political inequalities they face and how their political mobilisation led to their victory to win a percentage pay rise against all odds.
Additional information:
Why (and How) Things Happen
LSE and The Young Foundation Public Lecture
Date: Thursday 8 September 2005
Time: 6.30pm
Taxi: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City
by Biju Mathew
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 156584811X
New York Taxi Workers Alliance
tel: 001 212 6275248
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