Donald Francis Roy

Male, Deceased Person

1909 – 1980

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Who was Donald Francis Roy?

Donald Francis Roy was a sociologist on the faculty of Duke University from 1950 to 1979. Well known for his field work into industrial working conditions, workplace interactions, social conflict, and the role of unions. Roy received a bachelors degree and Masters from the University of Washington where he did ethnographic fieldwork in a Seattle shantytown and his PhD from the University of Chicago. Roy's work surveys much of blue-collar America, and is of great importance to Marxist analysis of the time.

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Born
1909
Education
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Washington
Died
1980

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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