Scholarly Review of Ruth Milkman, “Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century” and of Donald Critchlow, “Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation”, International Labor and Working-Class History 54 September 1998 pp. 236-39.
Scholarly “Regional Receptivity to National Political Reform in the U.S.: Two Cases of Changing Industrial Order”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 1998
Scholarly “Proposal for an Alamo Strategy Center at the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute”, a project for a labor market research center supported by the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute at UTSA. April 1998
Scholarly Review of William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella, editors, “North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain” and of Kevin Boyle, “The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968”, American Political Science Review 91 March 1997 pp. 181-3.
Scholarly “Political Reconstruction of Regional Economies in the United States”, paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual conference. March 1997
Scholarly Review of Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester, editors, “Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50, 2 January 1997 pp. 344-6.
Scholarly Work, Recreation, and Culture: Essays in American Labor History, edited by Martin Blatt and Martha Norkunas (NY: Garland). Member of the Editorial Board, Lowell Industrial History Conference Papers, U.S. Department of the Interior. January 1996
Scholarly “The Political Construction of Economic Space: Restructuring in Four American Regions”, a project supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award. January 1996
Scholarly Review of Melvyn Dubofsky, “The State and Labor in Modern America”, Political Science Quarterly November 1995 pp. 473-4.
Scholarly “Labor, Race and Employment: Can the End of New Deal Reformism Become the Opportunity for a New Reform Politics?”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 1995
Scholarly Review of Kathryn Marie Dudley, “The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49, October 1995 pp. 186-7.
Scholarly “High Road Possibilities for the Economy: Multilateral Monitoring as a Constitutive Act”, paper prepared for the Southern Labor Studies Association annual conference. October 1995
Scholarly “The Contrasting Consequences of Institutions and Politics: Labor and Industrial Relations in the U.S. and Germany”. Paper prepared for the Symposium on Labor and Politics at the George Meany Memorial Archives. Washington, D.C. November 1994
Scholarly “The Contrary Consequences of Labor-Party Alliances: American and German Unionism Compared, 1945-1994”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. October 1994
Scholarly The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order Philadelphia: Temple University Press May 1994
Scholarly “Institutional Frameworks and Production Systems”, International Contributions to Labour Studies 3 November 1993 pp. 51 – 66.
Scholarly “Patterns of State Intervention in Apprentice Training: Is There a Future for Industrial Citizenship?”, paper prepared for the 15th Annual North American Labor History Conference on Labor, Citizenship and the State. October 1993
Scholarly Review of Michael Schudson, “Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past”, Political Science Quarterly September 1993 pp. 562-3.
Scholarly “Political Obstacles to Up-Skilling Strategies: A Chapter in the History of Industrial Governance”, paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. March 1993
Scholarly “Skills, Sectors, Schools, States and Unions: Reconfiguring Apprenticeship for American Manufacturing”. February 1993