Scholarly

paper prepared for the 27th annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. London School of Economics and Politics. July 2015

Review of Andreas Bergh, Sweden and the Future of the Capitalist Welfare State,

International Journal of Social Welfare 24/3 July 2015 pp. 305 – 6.

“Social Learning in Active Labor Market Policy in Denmark: The Possibility of Policy Experimentalism and Political Development”,

Socio-Economic Review 13/4 April 2015 pp. 703 – 721. Download →

“From Having It Both Ways to Double Standards: The Political Origins and Development of U.S. International Labor Rights Policy”,

paper prepared for the APSA Annual Conference, Section on International History and Politics Panel on American Statecraft: Past and Present. August 2014 Nominated for the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper in the Section at the 2014 APSA convention.

“Introduction to the Colloquium on the Future of Political Science”,

DPSG Lecture and Colloquia Series at U.T.S.A. April 2014 Download →

“Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies”

in Gerald Berk, Victoria Hattam, and Dennis Galvan, editors, Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press) December 2013 pp. 100 – 119, 314 – 21.

“Ruth O’Brien’s Out of Many, One: Obama & the Third American Political Tradition: Are Working Class Americans Included?”,

paper for the Division on Presidents and Executive Politics at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2013 Download →

“After the Election Will the U.S. be Governable?”,

DPSG Lecture and Colloquia Series. U.T.S.A. October 2012

“Assemblages and Agents in Explanations of Institutional Change”,

for The Contours of the American State and the Making of Public Policy, American Political Science Association. September 2012 Download →

“The Costs of the War in Treasure and Truth”,

Colloquium on The Lessons of the U.S. War in Iraq, DPSG Lecture Series, U.T.S.A. April 2012 Download →

“The Obama Administration and the Long Crisis of the American Automobile Industry”,

paper for the conference on Power and the History of Capitalism (sponsored by the History Department of Lang College and the New School for Social Research and the Culture of the Market Network of the University of Manchester). April 2011 Download →

“Labor”,

in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, volume 7: The Clash of Conservatism and Liberalism, 1976 to Present, edited by Richard M. Valelly (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press) November 2010 pp. 247 – 51. Download →

“The Obama Administration’s Rescue of the American Automobile Industry in the American Reform Imagination”,

paper for the American Political Science Association annual conference. September 2010

Panel member at the conference on Deficits, Debt and Depression: the U.S. Economy in the Twenty-first Century, with Iwan Morgan, Grahame Thompson, and Edward Ashbee.

Copenhagen Business School. May 2010

“Can American State and Local Labor Market Agents Solve Employment Problems?”,

paper presented at the WIP Seminar at the International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. April 2010

“The Progressive Political Tradition in New York: Multi-Party Elections and the Pragmatist Style of Self-Government”.

Keynote paper prepared for the conference "New York, New York" at the University of Southern Denmark. March 2010

“Activation in Two Countries without Strong Employment Security: Denmark’s Labor Market Governance from an American Perspective”,

a study for a comparative research project. March 2010

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

“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 →

Review of Andrew Battista, “The Revival of Labor Liberalism”,

Journal of American History March 2009 pp. 1251 – 2.

“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

“Constructing a New Order of Labor Markets in late 20th Century America”,

paper prepared for the Social Science History Association Conference. October 2008

“Having It Both Ways: The Regional Politics of Labor Standards in U.S. Trade Policy”,

paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2008

“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 →

“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

“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 →

“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

“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

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.

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.

“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

“Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas”,

Social Science History 28, 1 March 2004 pp. 145 – 188. Download →

“Labor Adjustment Politics in the United States: Regional Diversity in National Strategy”,

paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 2003

“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 →

“Political Development and Political Change: The Case of Universal Labor Standards in the United States”,

paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2002

“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

“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

Review of Marie Gottschalk, “The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States”,

Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54, 4 July 2001 pp. 890-91.

Review of Taylor E. Dark, “The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance”,

American Political Science Review 94, 1 March 2000 pp. 187-88.

“Collective Bargaining: A 20th Century Policy Whose Time Is Up? Arguments about Unions and Political Development”,

paper prepared for the Conference on Policy History. May 1999

“The CIO Political Strategy in Historical Perspective: Creating a High-Road Economy in the Postwar Era”,

in Kevin Boyle, editor, Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994 (Albany: SUNY Press) November 1998 pp. 159 – 194.

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.

“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

“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

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.

“Political Reconstruction of Regional Economies in the United States”,

paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual conference. March 1997

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.

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

“The Political Construction of Economic Space: Restructuring in Four American Regions”,

a project supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award. January 1996

Review of Melvyn Dubofsky, “The State and Labor in Modern America”,

Political Science Quarterly November 1995 pp. 473-4.

“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

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.

“High Road Possibilities for the Economy: Multilateral Monitoring as a Constitutive Act”,

paper prepared for the Southern Labor Studies Association annual conference. October 1995

“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

“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

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order

Philadelphia: Temple University Press May 1994

“Institutional Frameworks and Production Systems”,

International Contributions to Labour Studies 3 November 1993 pp. 51 – 66.

“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

Review of Michael Schudson, “Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past”,

Political Science Quarterly September 1993 pp. 562-3.

“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

“Skills, Sectors, Schools, States and Unions: Reconfiguring Apprenticeship for American Manufacturing”.

February 1993

Review of Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, editors, “Major Problems in the History of American Workers”,

Labor History 33, 4 September 1992 pp. 568-9.

“Politics and Industrial Order”,

paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. August 1992

“Flexibility Under Fordism”,

paper prepared for the Fourth Annual Labor Studies Center conference, University of Notre Dame. April 1991

Review of Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, editors, “The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980”,

Business History Review March 1991 pp. 190-94.

“From the Gilded Age to Normalcy: The Political Realignment of Labor Markets in Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee”,

paper prepared for the Southwestern Political Science Association annual meeting. March 1991

“Democratic Producerism: Enlisting American Politics for Workplace Flexibility”,

Economy and Society 20, 1 February 1991 pp. 57 – 78.

“Historical Sources of Regional Patterns of Industrial Governance in the United States”,

paper prepared for the panel on Historical Assumptions of Political Science at the Western Political Association annual meeting. March 1990

“Competition and Political Capacity: The Case of Industrial Tooling”,

research supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award. August 1989

Review of Daniel Nelson, “American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941”,

Business History Review March 1989 pp. 206-209.

“The Old Politics of Inequality: The Autoworkers Union in the Liberal Keynesian State”,

paper prepared for the American Historical Association annual conference. December 1988

“Union Strategies, Party Coalitions and Industrial Relations”,

paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. August 1985

“Springfield: Cut First, Restore Later” 1983)

in Lawrence Susskind, editor, Proposition 2 1/2: Its Impact on Massachusetts (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain) November 1983 pp. 239 – 251.

“Alternatives to Fordism: The Autoworkers in the Postwar Settlement”,

paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. October 1983

“The Origins of Affirmative Action in Massachusetts: The Politics of Labor Market Segmentation in the Construction Industry”.

The Boston Jobs Coalition. January 1981

“Neighborhood Government”.

A comparative study of community development corporations in New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. for the Center for Community Economic Development of Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 1976