Dale Melcher Labor Extension Coordinator, Labor Center

Education and Interests

M.S. Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1982

Research interests: women and work, women and people of color in union leadership

Extension interests include: training for officers, stewards and bargaining committees, strategic planning, assertiveness; member mobilization, organizing, sexual harassment, strategic campaigns, workers rights, public speaking, political mobilization, and popular education.

Selected Publications

"Women's Participation in Local Union Leadership: The Massachusetts Experience" (with Dan Clawson, Jennifer Eichstedt, and Shelley Eriksen), Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45: 267-280 (January 1992).

“A Tool for WILDer Leadership Development,” (with Susan Winning), Labor Studies Journal (forthcoming)