Background
Beverly Silver grew up in Detroit during a period of intense working-class struggle.
Beverly Silver grew up in Detroit during a period of intense working-class struggle.
Silver received her Bachelor of Arts in economics from Barnard College and her Doctor of Philosophy from State University of New York Binghamton, where she was part of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations.
She is a professor of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Training and Academic She was active in the United Farm Workers Union and the solidarity campaigns for Chile. During this time she collaborated with a number of scholars including Giovanni Arrighi, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Terence Hopkins and contributed to the development of the school of world-systems analysis.
Foreign many years she was a member of the World Labor Research Group at the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton.