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Sam Gindin was born in Kaminsky Ural, Siberia in the former Soviet Union. He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a Canadian intellectual and activist known for his expertise on the labour movement and the economics of the automobile industry. Gindin is a graduate of the University of Manitoba. He obtained his MA in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sam Gindin )〕〔 Although he worked as a researcher for the New Democratic Party of Manitoba and taught at the University of Prince Edward Island, Gindin spent most of his working life as the director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers union from 1974 until his retirement in 2000. From 1985 until 2000, he served as assistant to the president of the union, both Bob White and Buzz Hargrove. He participated in collective bargaining, the formation of union and social policy and strategic discussions on the structure and direction of the union. He also wrote a book on the history of the CAW entitled ''The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union.''〔〔Gindin, Sam (1995) ''The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union''. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, Publishers.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Politics with Sober Senses: Conditions for Labor Renewal )〕 Gindin's writings have focused on the CAW, the auto industry, the crisis in organized labour in Canada and the US, and the political economy of capitalism. In 2012, he published ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire'', which he co-wrote with his lifelong friend, Leo Panitch. The book traces the development of American-led globalization over more than a century.〔Panitch, Leo and Gindin, Sam (2012). ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire''. London: Verso.〕 In 2013, it was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in the U.K. for best and most creative work in or about the Marxist tradition and in 2014, it won the Rik Davidson/SPE Book Prize for the best book in political economy by a Canadian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Past Recipients )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book Prize in Political Economy )〕 Gindin led the position of Visiting Packer Chair in Social Justice from 2000-2010 in the Political Science department at York University. In 2000, the university announced that Gindin would teach a course "that will bring students and union, anti-poverty, and non-governmental organization activists from around Ontario into the classroom" as a way of building bridges between social activism and university education. It said that half of the students would be community activists and that the course would delve into the philosophy and history of social justice movements "in the context of modern capitalism, the limits of the welfare state, the meaning of globalization, and the impasse of radical politics."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former CAW Director Sam Gindin 1st Packer Visitor in Social Justice Program Linking Learning & Social Activism Opens Classroom to Activists )〕 Although Gindin no longer serves as Packer Chair, he is still affiliated with York. He also remains active in labour and social movements as a member of the Socialist Project and the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Graduate Program in Political Science )〕〔Albo, Greg; Gindin, Sam; and Panitch Leo. (2010) ''In And Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives''. Oakland, CA: PM Press.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly presents )〕 The CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy is the first union-endowed chair at a Canadian university. Its mandate is to "create a hub of interaction between social justice activists and academics at Ryerson University".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy )〕 ==The making of global capitalism== In 2012, Sam Gindin, with his friend and colleague Leo Panitch, published ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire'' (2012). As its title suggests, the 456-page book is a comprehensive study of the growth of a global capitalist system over more than a century. Gindin and Panitch argue that the process known as globalization was not an inevitable outcome of expansionary capitalism, but was consciously planned and managed by America, the world's most powerful state.〔〔Albo, Greg; Gindin, Sam; Panitch, Leo. (2010) ''In And Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives'', PM Press. Oakland, CA.〕 They dispute the idea that globalization was driven by multinational corporations that have become more powerful than nation states. For them, this claim ignores the intricate relationships between states and capitalism; states maintain property rights, oversee contracts and sign free trade agreements, for example, while deriving tax revenues and popular legitimacy from the success of capitalist enterprises within their borders.〔 Panitch and Gindin also dismiss claims that the American Empire is in decline as shown, for example, by U.S. trade deficits, industrial shutdowns and layoffs. They argue, in fact, that the opposite is true. In recent decades, American firms "restructured key production processes, outsourced others to cheaper and more specialized suppliers and relocated to the U.S. south — all as part of an accelerated general reallocation of capital within the American economy." They write that although it is always highly volatile, the robust and globally dominant U.S. financial system facilitated this economic restructuring while making pools of venture capital available for investment in new, high-tech firms. As a result, the U.S. share of global production remained stable at around one quarter of the total right into the 21st century.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Gindin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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