Scholarly Panel member at the conference on The Obama Election at Year One, with Ruth O’Brien, Carl Pedersen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen and Edward Ashbee. Center for the Study of the Americas. Copenhagen Business School. November 2009
Scholarly “Unstructuring Pluralism: Adjusting Labor Management in Changing Contexts”, paper prepared for the conference on Unstructuring Politics: New Perspectives on Institutional Change, University of Oregon. June 2009 Download →
Scholarly Review of Andrew Battista, “The Revival of Labor Liberalism”, Journal of American History March 2009 pp. 1251 – 2.
Scholarly “Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative and the Constitution”. Public lecture delivered to the Free Thinkers' Association at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Antonio. March 2009
Scholarly “Constructing a New Order of Labor Markets in late 20th Century America”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association Conference. October 2008
Scholarly “Having It Both Ways: The Regional Politics of Labor Standards in U.S. Trade Policy”, paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2008
Scholarly “Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States”, Polity 40, 2 March 2008 pp. 164 – 196. Download →
Scholarly “Repertoires of Labor Regulation and the Redefinition of Employee Status in the United States”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. September 2007
Scholarly “Varieties of Capitalist Development: Worker-Manager Relations in the Texas Apparel Industry, 1935-1975”, Social Science History 30, 2 August 2006 pp. 231 – 262. Download →
Scholarly “Explaining Change in the Status of American Workers: Innovation and Intercurrence in Regime Transition”. Paper presented at the New York American Political Development Colloquium. City University of New York Graduate Center. April 2006
Scholarly “International Influences on U.S. Labor Policy: Sources and Possibilities of America’s Composite Liberal Market Regime”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 2005
Scholarly Review of Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz, “The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians Do But Join Much Less”, Perspectives on Politics 3, 2 June 2005 pp. 378-9.
Scholarly Review of John Barnard, “American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970”, Journal of American History March 2005 pp. 1535-6.
Scholarly “Constructing U.S. Labor Market Policy: How Liberal is American Labor Market Policy or What are the Opportunities for Innovation?”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 2004
Scholarly “Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas”, Social Science History 28, 1 March 2004 pp. 145 – 188. Download →
Scholarly “Labor Adjustment Politics in the United States: Regional Diversity in National Strategy”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 2003
Scholarly “Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States”, Studies in American Political Development 17, 1 March 2003 pp. 34 – 60. Download →
Scholarly “Political Development and Political Change: The Case of Universal Labor Standards in the United States”, paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2002
Scholarly “The Durability of Change: The New Deal Labor Policy as a Case of Political Development”, paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. March 2002
Scholarly “American Labor Standards in America: The Case of Extending National Standards to the Southern Apparel Industry”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 2001