Background
Chris Tilly was born on November 9, 1955, in France, into the family of Charles and Louise Tilly. Later he became a naturalized US citizen.
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1996
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1997
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1999
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2001
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2017
Chris Tilly was born on November 9, 1955, in France, into the family of Charles and Louise Tilly. Later he became a naturalized US citizen.
In 1976 Chris received Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University, and then he earned Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
Chris Tilly devoted his career to studying labor markets, inequality, urban development, and public policies directed toward better jobs. He is particularly works on the understanding how combinations of institutions and markets generate unequal labor outcomes, and how public policy and collective action can successfully be directed toward improving and equalizing such outcomes. Within this framework, Professor Tilly has examined part-time and contingent work, gender and racial disparities, job mobility, and other issues.
While continuing to conduct research on workplace issues in the United States, Professor Tilly has increasingly undertaken comparative research on countries including Brazil, China, India, Korea, Mexico, and South Africa, along with several European countries. His areas of greatest expertise are the United States, Mexico, and Latin America.
In addition to conducting scholarly research, he served for 20 years during 1986 - 2006 as editor of Dollars and Sense, a popular economics magazine, and frequently conducts research for advocacy groups, community organizations, and labor unions. He served on the Program Committee and later the Board of Directors of Grassroots International from 1991 to 2003, ending that time as the Chair of the Board.
Before becoming an academic, he spent eight years doing community and labor organizing.
Chris Tilly is highly famous as the author of successful books "Fifteen Years of Community-Based Development: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1983", "Short Hours, Short Shrift: Causes and Consequences of Part-Time Work", and "It'll Take More Than a Miracle: Income in Single-Mother Families in Massachusetts, 1979-1987."
Chris described his political views as progressive ones.
In 1984 Chris married a professor Marie Kennedy, with whom he has two daughters: Kaaren, and Amanda Tilly.
