education:
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1986. Dissertation:
Politics and Unions: Government, Ideology, and the Labor Movement in the United
States and France, 1880-1914.
B.A., Economics and History, Columbia University, 1977
professional experience
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: Research Assistant, June
1977-July 1978 Clark University: Department of Economics, Part-time Instructor,
Spring 1983
Tufts University: Department of Economics, Lecturer, September 1983-June 1984
University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Department of Economics, September
1984-present.
research interests
Economic History: 19th and 20th century United States, New World slavery;
19th and 20th century France. Labor History: Europe and North America. Labor
Economics. Political Economy. The Economics of Health Care.
honors & awards
German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship, 1989-90.
Certificate of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard-Danforth Center
for Teaching, Harvard University, 1981.
Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University.
professional activities
Drafted financing plans for single-payer health care systems for Maryland,
Massachusetts and the United States.
Associate Editor of Labor History 2003-present.
Member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Economic History (September 1994
- 1998).
Member of the Editorial Board, The American Journal of Sociology (September
1995 - 1997).
affiliations
American Economic Association
Economic History Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Social Science History Association
Society for French Historical Studies.
Selected publications
Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor
Movement (London and New York, Routledge, 2007).
State-Making and Labor Movements. The United States and France, 1876-1914
(Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998).
"Success and Failure in Third Party Politics: The Knights of Labor and the
Union Labor Coalition in Massachusetts, 1884-88" International Labor and
Working Class History 62 (Fall 2002), 164-88.
"What is Wrong with Economics? And What will Make it Right?" Working USA
(Fall 2000), 133-47.
"The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in
the South, 1880-1953," Journal of Economic History 60 (June 2000),
384-413.
"New Estimates of United States Union Membership, 1880-1914," Historical
Methods 32 (Spring 1999), 75-86.
"Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: The Rebels Behind the Cause"
French Historical Studies (Spring 1997).
"Worker Militancy and its Consequences: Political Responses to Labor Unrest in
the United States, 1877-1914," International Labor and Working Class History
(Fall 1991), 5-17.
"Capitalism, Socialism, Republicanism and the State: France 1877-1914"
Social Science History 14:1 (Spring 1990), 151-74.
"The State and the Making of the Working Class, France and the United States
1880-1914," in Theory and Society (May 1988), 403-30.
"Strike Success and Union Ideology, the United States and France, 1880-1914,"
Journal of Economic History (March 1988), 1-25.
"The Heights of Slaves in Trinidad," Social Science History (November
1982), 482-515.
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