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 Francine Blau (Cornell) is racking up lots of podcast coverage on the male-female wage gap.
Here she is on a FiveThirtyEight.com.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pay-gap-is-way-too-entrenched-to-be-solved-by-women-alone/
And here on a Planet Money podcast:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/09/600931069/mind-the-pay-gap |
 Designing Reality: How to Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution, is a new book by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Brandeis) and his brothers Alan and Neil. Published by Basic Books, it came out in November. Check out the web site:
http://designingreality.org |
 Stuart Basefsky posted on the LERA-Dialog listserv a Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the record (low) number of work stoppages last year.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.htm |
 David Yamada (Suffolk) has a blog on the themes of work and employment in the FX and Amazon Prime series “The Americans.”
https://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/themes-of-work-and-employment-in-the-americans/ |
 From Teresa Ghilarducci (The New School) and the New School Retirement Equity Lab: “Unstable or low-wage jobs make up more than half of older workers' job growth.”
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/jobs-report/april-2018-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55
And her May older worker jobs report.
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/jobs-report/may-2018-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55 |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Register to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. The program committee has scheduled a tremendous program plus many one-of-a-kind activities to augment your Baltimore trip! You will find more information about the special events here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events, and complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg.
View the final program for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting!
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May 15, 2018
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 Sylvia Allegretto (UC-Berkeley) published an op-ed, “The Trump proposal for tips will only hurt workers,” in the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-proposal-for-tips-will-only-hurt-employees/2018/02/20/c9a8ea06-1598-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html |
 Thomas Kochan (MIT) sent this Sunday Boston Globe Magazine piece, “Why MBAs haven’t got a clue about front-line workers.” He cites the increasing interest among MBA students in work, jobs, labor and worker-management relations.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2018/04/26/business-schools-are-ignoring-american-workers-here-why-that-problem-how-business-schools-are-failing-rank-and-file-workers/VN3MDyWw7zcdd3z8Lf1jJM/story.html |
 Alan Krueger (Princeton) is interviewed on this PBS Newshour Making Sense audio and video from Youngstown, Ohio, on the effects of opioids on the work force.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/opioid-crisis-decimated-american-workforce
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/opioid-crisis-decimated-american-workforce#audio
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Francine Blau (Cornell) has been selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association for 2018. She will receive the award on Jan. 5, 2019, at the AEA Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
Here’s the list of honorees.
https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows
Here’s the AEA write-up on Blau.
https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows/francine-blau
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 William Herbert (Hunter College, CUNY) writes that the new issue of the electronic newsletter from the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education is out. Covered are Janus v. AFSCME and updates on faculty and grad students’ unionization efforts.
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/April-2018-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=8EwiPtC_7YE |
 David Autor (MIT) is quoted extensively in the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman column on trade with China, “Some things are true even if Trump believes them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/opinion/trump-trade-china.html |
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Register to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. The program committee has scheduled a tremendous program plus many one-of-a-kind activities to augment your Baltimore trip! You will find more information about the special events here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events, and complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg.
Check out and register for the Special Events that are taking place during the LERA 70th Annual Meeting. The Maryland Chapter has worked very hard to add fun special events to the conference this year and they recently added a Maryland Crab Feast. Please make sure you are registered for the events you wish to attend as we expect to sell out of all special event tickets prior to the meeting. Here is the event page with link to the event registration form: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events
Reserve your hotel room before May 22, 2018, for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting to receive the block rate of $169/night.
Volunteer for a LERA Committee, and ask us about special activities planned for LERA Committee Members in Baltimore this June. Our committees govern the Association and its many services and programs. LERA accepts volunteers to staff committees year-round, and volunteer names will be provided to Committee Chairs when vacancies occur. Volunteer here.
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May 1, 2018
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 Peter Cappelli (Wharton) has an article, “Spotlight on the new rules of talent management: HR goes agile,” in the Harvard Business Review (subscription required).
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2018/03/07/hbr-spotlight-on-the-new-rules-of-talent.html
He’s also quoted in a Washington Post column on leadership, “Trump’s ‘cascade of chaos’: What happens when there’s too much turnover at the top?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/03/15/trumps-cascade-of-chaos-what-happens-when-theres-too-much-turnover-at-the-top |
 Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth) published “After 25 years, it’s time for paid leave,” complete with policy recommendations, on the center’s website.
http://equitablegrowth.org/person/heather-boushey/
She also co-edited the Harvard University Press book, After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504776 |
 David Weil (Brandeis) is quoted in this NPR All Things Considered story on the state, rights and future for contract workers.
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/593102978/unequal-rights-contract-workers-have-few-workplace-protections |
 Saru Jayaraman (Restaurant Opportunities Centers United) is quoted in “The tipping equation” in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/11/business/tipping-sexual-harassment.html
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Congratulate the newest LERA Executive Board Members! Thank you to all members who participated in this year's election, either by running or by voting. You can meet your newest LERA Executive Board Members at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-2018-election-results. Please, congratulate them!
We also invite you to congratulate the 2018 LERA Award Recipients. These awards are conferred at the LERA General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Saturday night at the LERA 70th Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Congratulations to all of the 2018 LERA Award Recipients, individuals and LERA Chapters, you are doing great work to advance the field of LER! 2018 Award Recipients can be found here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/award-recipients-2018
Register to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. The program committee has scheduled a tremendous program plus many one-of-a-kind activities to augment your Baltimore trip! You will find more information about the special events here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events, and complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg.
Volunteer for a LERA Committee, and ask us about special activities planned for LERA Committee Members in Baltimore this June. Our committees govern the Association and its many services and programs. LERA accepts volunteers to staff committees year-round, and volunteer names will be provided to Committee Chairs when vacancies occur. Volunteer here.
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April 15, 2018
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 Read Steven Greenhouse’s New York Times op-ed, the “West Virginia teacher strike is just the beginning.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/teachers-west-virginia-strike.html
Related: “Teachers go on strike in Oklahoma and Kentucky: It really is a wildfire.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/us/teacher-strikes-oklahoma-kentucky.html |
 Ken Jacobs (UC-Berkeley) is quoted on the Janus Supreme court case on public unions’ “fair-share fees” on this Marketplace podcast.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/02262018
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Noble laureate Paul Krugman references David Autor’s (MIT) “China shock” paper in this New York Times column, “Trade wars, stranded assets and the stock market (wonkish).”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/opinion/trade-wars-stranded-assets-and-the-stock-market-wonkish.html
Here’s the China shock paper.
http://ddorn.net/papers/Autor-Dorn-Hanson-ChinaShock.pdf |
Teresa Ghilarducci (New School) has new research out that says 40 percent of retirees will experience downward economic mobility.
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/insights-blog/40-of-older-americans-will-experience-downward-mobility-in-retirement
And “Older black workers face more risk in economic downturns.”
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/jobs-report/march-2018-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55
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 Michael LeRoy (Illinois) was quoted in two newspaper stories, one about Disney workers’ bonuses and union negotiations in the Washington Post …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/21/disney-workers-accuse-company-of-withholding-their-trump-tax-cut-bonuses
… and another on campaign contributions in The Daily Southtown.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-prevailing-wage-st-0328-20180327-story.html |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Meet the newest LERA Executive Board Members! Thank you to all members who participated in this year's election, either by running or by voting. You can meet your newest LERA Executive Board Members at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-2018-election-results. Please, congratulate them!
We also invite you to congratulate the 2018 LERA Award Recipients. These awards are conferred at the LERA General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Saturday night at the LERA 70th Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Congratulations to all of the 2018 LERA Award Recipients, individuals and LERA Chapters, you are doing great work to advance the field of LER! 2018 Award Recipients can be found here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/award-recipients-2018
Register to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. The program committee has scheduled a tremendous program plus many one-of-a-kind activities to augment your Baltimore trip! You will find more information about the special events here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events, and complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg.
Volunteer for a LERA Committee, and ask us about special activities planned for LERA Committee Members in Baltimore this June. Our committees govern the Association and its many services and programs. LERA accepts volunteers to staff committees year-round, and volunteer names will be provided to Committee Chairs when vacancies occur. Volunteer here.
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April 1, 2018
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 We found Paul Osterman’s (MIT) 2017 Wall Street Journal op-ed (subscription required), “Why home health care costs too much,” on Tom Kochan’s Institute for Work and Employment Research web site. We’ll review Osterman’s book, Who Will Care for Us? in the fall Perspectives on Work.
http://iwer.mit.edu/2017/09/13/home-care-costs-much/ |
The eighth edition (!) of The Economics of Women, Men, and Work by Francine Blau (Cornell) and Anne E. Winkler its out.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-economics-of-women-men-and-work-9780190620851
DIW Berlin, a German research institute honored Blau by naming a meeting room for her in honor of her research on gender issues and other topics! Congratulations Francine!
Blau also co-edited The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration.
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23550/the-economic-and-fiscal-consequences-of-immigration |
 Eileen Appelbaum (CEPR) and Donna Hitscherich (Columbia University) are quoted in this Marketplace story, “Toys R Us and why retail downturn is about debt.”
Read and listen here:
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/03/06/business/toys-r-us-and-how-retail-downturn-story-about-debt |
 Joseph McCartin (Georgetown) was quoted in “West Virginia walkout a lesson in a crowd-sourced strike” in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/west-virginia-teachers-strike.html? |
 Ilaria Armaroli (ADAPT — Association for International and Comparative Studies in Labour Law and Industrial Relations) sent the essay “Italy’s Industry 4.0 Plan: An Analysis from a Labour Law Perspective,” by Michele Tiraboschi (University of Modena). It is available below or on the LERA website under Member Projects.
http://ejcls.adapt.it/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/view/467 |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Submit a session or paper proposal by April 9, 2018 to the program committee for the [email protected] meeting, Jan. 4-6, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. This meeting takes place in conjunction with the ASSA/AEA, an exciting program attended by 13,000+ people. View the call here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2019-call-for-proposals-lera-assa
Register to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. The program committee has scheduled a tremendous program plus many one-of-a-kind activities to augment your Baltimore trip! You will find more information about the special events here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-anl-mtg-events, and complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg.
Calling LERA book authors who are attending the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018. Would you like to display your recently published book at the meeting? Contact us to reserve space.
Cast your ballot for LERA Officers and Board Members by April 5, 2018. The LERA 2018 Election is open, and if you haven’t voted yet, you can do so in the next few days. Every vote counts, and you can also nominate potential leaders for the next election. Please nominate people who have the expertise and commitment to lead this organization forward. Only current LERA national members may vote, and you will find the candidate information here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/candidate-information-for-lera-2018-election.
Volunteer for a LERA Committee, and ask us about special activities planned for LERA Committee Members in Baltimore this June. Our committees govern the Association and its many services and programs. LERA accepts volunteers to staff committees year-round, and volunteer names will be provided to Committee Chairs when vacancies occur. Volunteer here.
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March 15, 2018
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Participate in Tom Kochan's online course “Shaping the Future of Work”. Tom Kochan, MIT and LERA Past President, invites you to participate in the online course “Shaping the Future of Work” that begins March 20.
• Tom’s letter of invitation to LERA groups: https://lera.memberclicks.net/on-line-mitx-course-on-shaping-the-future-of-work-2018
• To sign up for the course: https://www.edx.org/course/shaping-the-future-of-work |
Eileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic and Policy Research) was interviewed about productivity on Public Radio International’s Marketplace.
• Listen to the podcast. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/02212018
• She was also quoted on another Marketplace podcast for a story on private equity and the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/03062018 |
David Weil (Brandeis) was interviewed on “The Real Future of Work” on the Matt Townsend Show (Sirius-XM, subscription required. The discussion starts at the 20 min. mark.
https://www.byuradio.org/episode/28ff18bb-6e55-45b2-ae78-4f99f61b10ec/the-matt-townsend-show-future-of-work-switched-on-emotional-awakening-screen-cleaning |
 Economist Lawrence Katz (Harvard) in a long-form interview on the gender pay gap, job fissuring and the economic importance of moving to a good neighborhood early in a child’s life.
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-lawrence-katz
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A report from Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Research) on “The Precarious Economic Lives of Older Women.”
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/jobs-report/november-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55-2 |
 Rick McGahey (New School for Social Research) has published an article, “Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State.”
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/robots-universal-basic-income-welfare-state
His academic paper, “Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State,” is here.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2863954 |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Early Bird for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting ends March 25! Register before March 25, 2018 to take advantage of our early bird registration for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. Find complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg
Join a LERA Committee. Join a LERA committee. Ask us about special activities planned for LERA Committee members in Baltimore this June. Our committees govern the Association and its many services and programs. LERA accepts volunteers to staff committees year-round, and volunteer names will be provided to Committee Chairs when vacancies occur. Volunteer here.
Let us know! If you have recently authored a book and would like it added to the possible books that will be reviewed in the LERA Perspectives on Work please let us know! Additionally, email if you would like to write a book review. [email protected].
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 John Budd (Minnesota) was quoted in Equal Times on gender-equal parental leave.
https://www.equaltimes.org/gender-equal-parental-leave-an#.WpblWGcsBLQ |
Ken Jacobs (UC-Berkeley) comments on what’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Janus v. ASCME case that would greatly weaken public-sector unions on the Feb. 26 Marketplace podcast.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace |
 Moshe Marvit (Century Foundation) opines in the New York Times about the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court’s potentially overturning “fair-share” dues for public-sector unions in the Janus case.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/opinion/judicial-activism-supreme-court.html |
Francine Blau (Cornell) is quoted in a New York Times article, “Children hurt women’s wages, but not men’s,” that discusses the gender pay gap in Scandinavia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/upshot/even-in-family-friendly-scandinavia-mothers-are-paid-less.html |
 Jared Bernstein (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities) in “Liberals Wanted Fiscal Stimulus, Conservatives Delivered it,” in The New York Times, says he hopes the fiscal stimuli of the tax cut and two-year budget is the right thing at the right time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/upshot/liberals-wanted-fiscal-stimulus-conservatives-delivered-it.html |
  Françoise Carré (U. Mass.-Boston) and Chris Tilly (UCLA) have a new book, Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies (Russell Sage).
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/where-bad-jobs-are-better-0
Here’s an article about the book on the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs website:
https://luskin.ucla.edu/u-s-retail-jobs-bad-doesnt-stay-way/ |
Bill Herbert (Hunter College, City University of New York) announced on the LERA-D listserv the online publication (with links to the articles) of The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Volume 9.
http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/ |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Submit a session or paper proposal by March 9, 2018 to the program committee for the [email protected] meeting, Jan. 4-6, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. This meeting takes place in conjunction with the ASSA/AEA, an exciting program attended by 13,000+ people. View the call here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2019-call-for-proposals-lera-assa
Registration for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting is open! Registration is open for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. Register before March 25, 2018 to take advantage of the earlybird registration rate. Find complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg
Let us know! If you have recently authored a book and would like it added to the possible books that will be reviewed in the LERA Perspectives on Work please let us know! Additionally, email if you would like to write a book review. [email protected].
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- Registration for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting opens today.
- Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award today.
- Nominate a worthy chapter for a merit award by Feb 15.
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 Read Robert Kuttner’s “Thank you, Larry Mishel,” (Economic Policy Institute) in The American Prospect.
http://prospect.org/article/thank-you-larry-mishel |
  Daniel J.B. Mitchell (UCLA) posted on the LERA-D listserv a Huffington Post article about the Trump administration’s rolling back collective bargaining rights that quotes former National Labor Relations Board chairman Wilma Liebman.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-nlrb-labor-board-counsel-union-reforms_us_5a2440bce4b0a02abe91e2d3
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 Forty-one year LERA member Art Hochner (Temple) was profiled in the Philadelphia Inquirer upon his retirement. He talked about his career, union leadership and his complicated relationship with the university where he spent his career following being a community organizer.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/temples-long-serving-faculty-union-president-retires-20171219.html |
David Weil’s (Brandeis) tenure as the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division Administrator is discussed in this article in Politico:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/future-work-independent-contractors-alternative-work-arrangements-216212
He also had a Huffington Post op-ed, “Millennial employees aren’t the problem. The transformed workplace is.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/millennial-employees-arent-the-problem_us_5a317838e4b091ca2684ed54 |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Registration for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting opens today!Registration is open for the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD. Register before March 25, 2018 to take advantage of the earlybird registration rate. Find complete conference details and links at: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg
Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award by February 1, 2018 (scholars and practitioners alike), including Dunlop Scholar Awards, LERA Academic and Practitioner Fellow Awards, Outstanding Practitioner Award, and the Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award. Find complete details and submission forms here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
Nominate a LERA Chapter! We are accepting nominations until February 15, 2018 for LERA Chapter Awards to be presented at the LERA 70th Annual Meeting. There are eight different merit award categories that any chapter can be nominated for, just tell us why they are great! The online nomination form is at https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapter-merit-awards and on our deadlines page at https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines
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February 15, 2018
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   Cornell’s ILR Press has published Informal Workers and Collective Action edited by Adrienne Eaton, Susan Schurman (Rutgers) and Martha Chen (Harvard).
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100057040 |
  H. Allan Hunt and Marcus Dillender have a new book, Workers’ Compensation: Analysis for its Second Century (Upjohn Institute). It’s available in pdf format at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research website at no charge.
http://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=up_press |
Moshe Marvit (Century Foundation) in a New York Times op-ed “American workers need better job protections.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/american-workers-job-protections.html? |
 When Foxconn (the iPhone manufacturer) opened a new plant in Wisconsin last summer, the state provided a lavish tax break for the company. It’s seven or eight times the usual incentive, says Timothy Bartik (Upjohn Institute) in this New York Times story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/business/wisconsin-foxconn-tax-subsidies.html |
 Howard Myerson asks, “Is Manufacturing’s Future All Used Up?” in The American Prospect. The article leans heavily on N.Y. Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle’s book, Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters. We ran an excerpt from Lou’s book in the 2017 Perspectives on Work.
http://read.nxtbook.com/tap/theamericanprospect/theamericanprospectwinter2018/index.html#is_manufacturing_s_future_all |
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Submit a session or paper proposal to the program committee for the [email protected] meeting, Jan. 4-6, 2019 in Atlanta, GA by March 9, 2018. This meeting takes place in conjunction with the ASSA/AEA, an exciting program attended by 13,000+ people. View the call here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2019-call-for-proposals-lera-assa
Nominate a LERA Chapter! We are accepting nominations until February 15, 2018 for LERA Chapter Awards to be presented at the LERA 70th Annual Meeting. There are eight different merit award categories that any chapter can be nominated for, just tell us why they are great! The online nomination form is at https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapter-merit-awards and on our deadlines page at https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines
Let us know! If you have recently authored a book and would like it added to the possible books that will be reviewed in the LERA Perspectives on Work please let us know! Additionally, email if you would like to write a book review. [email protected].
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- Another article, “Should we subsidize manufacturing?,” that considers Louis Uchitelle’s manufacturing ideas, this one in the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/should-we-subsidize-manufacturing
- Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the huge asset-management company, wrote a game-changing letter about corporate social responsibility to companies. Read the letter.
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/en-us/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter
Here’s an interview with Fink on the Corner Office podcast .
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/01/17/business/corner-office-marketplace/blackrock-ceo-wants-companies-make-positive?
- With infrastructure rebuilding and jobs on the agenda, listen to an excellent NPR Here & Now segment, “How did the WPA change U.S. infrastructure? It did just about everything, scholar says.”
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/01/16/wpa-us-infrastructure
- Listen to the BBC Business podcast “Europe’s Jobless Youth.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csw87j
- Harvard labor economist Claudia Goldin in a long-form interview on the economics of slavery, women in economics, working women, economic history and other subjects.
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-claudia-goldin
- This N.Y. Times The Daily podcast on Ford’s problem with sexual harassment and harassment of women working in a Chicago assembly plant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/podcasts/the-daily/ford-sexual-harassment.html
- Viewing tip. If you have Amazon Prime, check out The Wire, Season 2, for great drama based at the Baltimore docks and its union dockworkers struggling to figure out how to survive in a changing world. Watch the whole series, but Season 2 is a classic for LERA folks.
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January 15, 2018
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John Budd’s (Minnesota) blog Whither Work has been recognized as one of the Top 75 Workplace Blogs on the web.
https://www.feedspot.com/infiniterss.php?q=site:whitherwork.blogspot.com
The Whither Work blog is at http://whitherwork.blogspot.com/
Budd was quoted in “St. Paul teachers want companies, nonprofits to pay more for schools” on Minnesota Public Radio News.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/13/stpaul-teachers-want-companies-to-pay-more-for-schools |
 Rosemary Batt (Cornell) and Eileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic Policy and Research) are quoted in a New York Times op-ed, “Trump ran for the forgotten, then he forgot them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/opinion/trump-wall-street-tax.html
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 Aaron Sojourner (Minnesota) was quoted in “Medicaid expansion takes a bite out of medical debt” on Minnesota Public Radio News.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/10/563029459/medicaid-expansion-takes-a-bite-out-of-medical-debt |
Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Research) is out with some new research about nascent state-sponsored efforts to provide retirement-savings vehicles for private-sector workers without access to company retirement plans.
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/insights-blog/state-retirement-reform-lifting-up-best-practices |
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Write for LERA. Cover yourself in LERA glory by writing for Perspectives on Work, LERA’s practitioner publication. We’re looking for features on high-tech employment, op-eds on current issues in the field and book reviewers. Contact Bernadette Tiemann, PoW co-managing editor, [email protected], (217) 300-2951.
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Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award by January 15, 2018 (scholars and practitioners alike), Find complete details and submission forms here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
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Trump promised steelworkers jobs. They got layoffs instead. Read it in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/economy/trump-steel-industry-layoffs.html?_
Why white-collar criminals don’t do time in this New Yorker article on the book, The Chickenshit Club.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/why-corrupt-bankers-avoid-jail
What do you do if you have a baby, spotty low-wage employment and bills to pay? Listen to a Death, Sex and Money podcast interview-story “Why I Steal.”
http://www.wnyc.org/story/why-i-steal-death-sex-money/
The Freakanomics guys open the mailbag and answer listener questions on the economics of everyday — and not-so everyday — life. Listen to the podcast
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-most-social-good-100-dollars-other-faq/
“Trump administration to restaurants: Take the tips!” in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/opinion/trump-administration-restaurants-tipping.html
Podcast tip: The Wall Street Journal’s “The Future of Everything” year-end podcast featured 2017’s greatest hits, including urban farms, space law, Wall Street quants and 3-D printing.
http://www.wsj.com/podcasts/a-look-back-as-we-looked-ahead-in-2017/6860F3B0-299E-4E38-835D-378A5F22B094.html
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January 1, 2018
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Eileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic and Policy Research) in the Huffington Post, “No, the Republicans will not be able to sell their tax cut to the public.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-republicans-will-not-be-able-to-sell-their-tax_us_5a3c348fe4b0df0de8b063d3 |
Alan Krueger (Princeton) and Lawrence Katz (Harvard) are quoted in Harold Myerson’s “Low Unemployment Doesn’t Increase Wages the Way it Used to” in The American Prospect.
http://prospect.org/article/low-unemployment-doesnt-increase-wages-it-used
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Tom Kochan (MIT) comments in a WGBH story on the shortage of auto mechanics:
http://news.wgbh.org/2017/04/12/local-news/auto-mechanics-needed-relieve-industry-shortage |
  Fidan Kurtulus (U. Mass. Amherst) and Douglas Kruse (Rutgers) have a new book, How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions? (Upjohn).
http://research.upjohn.org/up_press/241/ |
 Virginia Doellgast (Cornell) is the co-editor of a new Oxford University Press book, Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe. It’s out in January.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reconstructing-solidarity-9780198791843?cc=be&lang=en&# |
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Write for LERA: This year’s Perspectives on Work is in the mail to all members (possibly already received). We’re already doing advance thinking about the 2018 issue. We’re considering running several features on employment and technology. If you have research/ideas and are interested in writing, contact Michael Lillich, [email protected], (217) 898-1928. We’re also looking for op-eds, new member books and book reviewers.
Attend the [email protected] Meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia … Join us for 18 LERA sessions over 3 days. Find program, housing, and registration details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-lera-assa-mtg
Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award by January 15, 2018 (scholars and practitioners alike), Find complete details and submission forms here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
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- NYU prof Scott Galloway’s new book, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, is both a smart analysis of the companies’ (very different) business models and a hard, dark look at future employment in the digital age. Read the CNBC review.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/scott-galloway-the-four-amazon-apple-google-facebook.html
- What happens when undocumented workers show up in Albertville, Ala. to work in the town’s chicken-processing plant in This American Life podcast.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/632/our-town
- Maids in India rise up, some say riot, in protest of their treatment by their wealthy employers. Read it in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/world/asia/at-a-luxury-complex-in-india-the-maids-and-the-madams-go-to-war.html?
- The socio-economics of food through women, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Gurley Brown and Eva Braun on PBS News Hour’s Making Sense. Read the transcript and/or listen to the audio.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-these-famous-women-used-food-as-social-status
- Listen to the BBC Business Daily podcast, “Is the future jobless?” about how artificial intelligence will affect the jobs of the future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstwyd
- Developing video games is not just fun and games. Read the New York Times story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/opinion/work-culture-video-games-crunch.html
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December 1, 2017
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 Christian Weller (U. Mass.-Boston) in an International Business Times op-ed on the “voodoo economics” of the GOP tax bill:
http://www.ibtimes.com/voodoo-economics-makes-comeback-republican-tax-plan-enriching-rich-2612148
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Francine Blau (Cornell) and Lawrence Kahn (Cornell) in a PBS Newshour analysis, “Why Women Continue to Make Less than Men.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/analysis-women-continue-make-less-men/ |
 Oren Levin-Waldman (Metropolitan College) writing in the weeks after the Charlottesville protest march: “What Happens When There is No Longer a Middle Class?” on the Employment Policy Research Network web site.
http://www.yonkerstribune.com/2017/08/an-economic-theory-of-justice-by-dr-oren-m-levin-waldman-ph-d-2
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Peter Cappelli (Wharton) comments in this NPR story on the state of H.R. in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment stories.
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/15/564443807/why-some-survivors-of-sexual-harassment-and-assault-wait-to-tell-their-stories |
 Andrew Weaver (Illinois) on the “skills gap” in the EAB Daily Briefing;
https://www.eab.com/daily-briefing/2017/08/31/the-skills-gap-is-a-myth-according-to-this-economist |
 Both Tom Kochan (MIT) and Bill Canak (Middle Tennessee State, TERRA chapter) forwarded a Boston Globe op-ed that is of interest, “Transformative Automation is Coming. The Impact is up to us,” by MIT President Rafael Reif.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/11/10/transformative-automation-coming-the-impact/az0qppTvsUu5VUKJyQvoSN/story.html
Or on LERA’s Employment Policy Research Network:
http://www.employmentpolicy.org/page-1797721/5582909#sthash.oAkyJx7W.dpbs |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
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Submit a research papers by December 15, 2017 for competitions associated with the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore. This includes LERA Competitive Papers (double-blind refereed paper competition, submit complete paper by 12/15/17), or the AILR/LERA Best Papers (submit paper proposal by 1/15/18). You will find complete details at the LERA website here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
Read for LERA Competitive Paper Competition: Let us know if you would like the editorial committee to consider utilizing your expertise as a reader in for the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s (LERA) double-blind, refereed LERA Competitive Papers Competition. Send an email to [email protected] if you are interested.
Attend the [email protected] Meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia … Join us for 18 LERA sessions over 3 days. Find program, housing, and registration details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-lera-winter-meeting-assa.
Make a contribution to the LERA Annual Fund Drive 2017. You have received a letter in the mail, but you can go online and make a contribution anytime to support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award by January 15, 2016 (scholars and practitioners alike), Find complete details and submission forms here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
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December 15, 2017
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 Peter Cappelli (Wharton) on NPR, “U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs.”
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547646709/u-s-employers-struggle-to-match-workers-with-open-jobs
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 Ruth Milkman (CUNY) is quoted in this American Prospect article about manufacturing workers at high-tech electric automaker Tesla who complain about wages and working conditions as well as efforts to organize through the UAW.
http://prospect.org/article/charge-time-electric-car-workers-accuse-tesla-low-pay-and-intimidation |
 Michael LeRoy (Illinois) in an op-ed, “The HR joke is on us,” about workplace sexual harassment and the courts in the Champaign News-Gazette.
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/2017-11-26/guest-commentary-the-hr-joke-us.html
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 David Neumark’s (UC-Irvine) research is featured in a Forbes magazine story, “The age discrimination law at age 50: A mixed bag.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2017/02/14/the-age-discrimination-law-at-50-a-mixed-bag/#c20c6ac1cf16 |
 Economics-management-labor-pubic policy news hound Dan Mitchell (UCLA) on the LERA-D (dialog) listserv pointed to an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on reasons for officially low productivity increases since 2004 may be a product of mismeasurement.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.31.2.165 |
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Write for LERA: This year’s Perspectives on Work is in the mail to all members (possibly already received). We’re already doing advance thinking about the 2018 issue. We’re considering running several features on employment in high tech. If you have research/ideas and are interested in writing, contact Michael Lillich, [email protected], (217) 898-1928. We’re also looking for op-eds, new member books and book reviewers.
Attend the [email protected] Meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia … Join us for 18 LERA sessions over 3 days. Find program, housing, and registration details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-lera-winter-meeting-assa.
Make a contribution: Have you made your contribution to LERA’s Annual Fund Drive? LERA could not offer the plethora of programs that we do without your continued support. Please contribute by December 31, 2017! Go online and make a contribution anytime to support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
Nominate a worthy colleague for a LERA Award by January 15, 2016 (scholars and practitioners alike), Find complete details and submission forms here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
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November 15, 2017
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 George Shultz, past LERA president and U.S. Secretary of State, Treasury and Labor, now 96 and still very sharp, is rereleasing Turmoil and Triumph, his memoir of his years as Secretary of State in the Reagan administration.
Read the transcript of the NPR interview with Shultz (Oct. 4): http://www.npr.org/2017/10/04/555710502/reagan-administration-secretary-of-state-reflects-on-his-tenure-and-tillersons
Here’s the link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Turmoil-Triumph-Years-Secretary-State/dp/0684193256/
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 Ken May’s Contract Bargaining Handbook for Local Union Leaders is out in its second edition. Check it out on the LERA website:
https://lera.memberclicks.net/second-edition-contract-bargaining-handbook-for-local-union-leaders |
 Michael Belzer (Wayne State) sent in his paper, "Why Do Long Distance Truck Drivers Work Extremely Long Hours?” as a sequel to the Steven Greenhouse story on driverless cars in the Nov. 1 LERA ebulletin.
You can access his article here: https://goo.gl/M5Xx47 Free download of article available using "Read Publication" button at the bottom of the blog until November 24.
After November 24 the article can be found at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1035304617728440
Working paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3013200
Here’s the Greenhouse article: http://prospect.org/article/driverless-future |
Harold Myerson, writing about economic development policies for left-behind parts of the country in an American Prospect article, references Eileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic and Policy Research) and Rose Batt’s (Cornell) article, “Who is Wilbur Ross?” We ran it in a previous ebulletin. If you missed it, here’s a second chance.
http://prospect.org/article/who-wilbur-ross
Here’s the Myerson “Place Matters” article: http://prospect.org/article/place-matters |
Michael LeRoy (Illinois) is quoted in the New York Times article, “Goodell and N.F.L. Owners Break From Players on Anthem Kneeling Fight.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/sports/football/nfl-goodell-anthem-kneeling.html? |
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Submit a session (or paper) proposal to the LERA Program Committee by end of day today, November 15, 2017, and here is more info: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-call. The LERA 70th Annual Meeting “Shaping the Future of Work: Challenges, Opportunities and New Models” will happen June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. Find details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg; it will be an event you won’t want to miss!
Submit a paper by December 15, 2017 for research competitions associated with the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore. This includes LERA Competitive Papers (double-blind refereed paper competition, submit complete paper), or the AILR/LERA Best Papers (submit paper proposal). You will find complete details at the LERA website here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
Read for LERA Competitive Paper Competition: Let us know if you would like the editorial committee to consider utilizing your expertise as a reader in for the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s (LERA) double-blind, refereed LERA Competitive Papers Competition. Send an email to [email protected] if you are interested.
Save the Date: [email protected], January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia … Join us for 18 LERA sessions over 3 days. Find program, housing, and registration details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-lera-winter-meeting-assa.
Make a contribution to the LERA Annual Fund Drive 2017. You have received a letter in the mail, but you can go online and make a contribution anytime to support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
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November 1, 2017
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Peter Cappelli (Wharton) in a Washington Post On Leadership column on “How to Save Good Jobs.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/02/10/how-to-save-good-jobs
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 Chris Tilly (UCLA) is quoted in an article in the Long Beach Press Telegram about the Longshoreman’s union membership lottery:
http://www.presstelegram.com/business/20170605/winners-of-longshore-lottery-drawing-know-they-havent-hit-jackpot-yet
Attendees at LERA’s 69th Annual Meeting took a guided tour of the Longshoreman’s union and the technologically state-of-the-art Long Beach Container Terminal. Look for a story, “Dockworkers meet the digital future,” in Perspectives on Work, out this month. |
 Stephen J. Silvia’s (School of International Service and American University) article, “The United Auto Workers Attempts to unionize Volkswagen, Chattanooga,” published in the 2017 Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, is the winner of the 2017 Best Paper Competition LERA/ILR Review Special Series in Employment Relations.
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   The fifth edition of the collective bargaining textbook, An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations (Cornell ILR Press) by LERA president Harry Katz (Cornell), Tom Kochan (MIT) and Alex Colvin (Cornell) is out.
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100199890
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Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth) is quoted in a New York Times article, “Household Debt Makes a Comeback.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/dealbook/household-debt-united-states.html?
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   Steven Greenhouse, writing in the American Prospect, says driverless cars are a future jobs killer. He quotes Lawrence Katz (Harvard), David Autor (MIT) and Michael Belzer (Sound Science Inc.).
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  Tony Dundon (Manchester – UK) is co-author of a new book, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Employee Relations.
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/a-very-short-fairly-interesting-and-reasonably-cheap-book-about-employment-relations/book242689
Danny Roberts (University of the West Indies) reviews the charmingly self-deprecatorily titled book in the 2017 Perspectives on Work out in November. |
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects,
eBulletin corrections and other items of interest to LERA members.
(217) 898-1928. [email protected] 311 W. University Ave., No. 202, Champaign, IL 61820. |
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Submit a session (or paper) proposal to the LERA Program Committee by November 15, 2017, and here is more info: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-call. The LERA 70th Annual Meeting “Shaping the Future of Work: Challenges, Opportunities and New Models” will happen June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. Find details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-anl-mtg; it will be an event you won’t want to miss!
Submit a paper by December 15, 2017 for research competitions associated with the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore. This includes LERA Competitive Papers (double-blind refereed paper competition, submit complete paper), or the AILR/LERA Best Papers (submit paper proposal). You will find complete details at the LERA website here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines.
Save the Date: [email protected], January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia … Join us for 18 LERA sessions over 3 days. Find program, housing, and registration details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-lera-winter-meeting-assa.
Make a contribution to the LERA Annual Fund Drive 2017. You have received a letter in the mail, but you can go online and make a contribution anytime to support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
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More Reading, Viewing and Listening
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- In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, Public Radio International’s The World devoted its Oct. 20th podcast to a discussion of sexual harassment in the international workplace.
http://www.npr.org/ podcasts/381444246/pri-s-the-world
- Watch/read Paul Solomon in his Making Sense segment of the PBS News Hour on retail employment in the age of Amazon:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/warby-parkers-ceo-thrive-retail-big-box-stores-dying/
- “The Jobs Americans Do” feature from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/the-new-working-class.html
- Here’s an Atlantic magazine Q&A with economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford about his new book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/tim-harford-50-inventions/540276/
- “The Art of Negotiating” on the BBC business news podcast. Bonus commentary from the Financial Times’ acerbic Lucy Kellaway on how one should react to being sacked in the contemporary business world:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstwy7
- Jobs of the future? No problemo. Read the New York Times op-ed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/opinion/sunday/no-that-robot-will-not-steal-your-job.html?
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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: September 2017
- Member news: Weil, Kreider, Herbert, Lynch, Mitchell, Ghilarducci
- Calls to action
- More reading, listening and watching for LERA members
Member News:
Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects, ebulletin corrections and other items of interest to LERA members. (217) 898-1928. [email protected] 311 W. University Ave., No. 202. Champaign, IL 61820.
Calls to Action:
- Become a LERA Chapter member. Visit https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapters to see what chapter is closest to you!
- Make a contribution to the LERA Annual Fund Drive. You will soon receive the LERA Annual Fund Drive letter in the mail. Please make a contribution and support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
- Submit a session proposal to the LERA Annual Meeting Program Committee by November 15, 2017. You will find complete information here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-call. The LERA 70th Annual Meeting will take place June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
- Save the Date. [email protected] Meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
- Join the conversation. LERA executive director Emily Smith points out that the LERA-Dialog listserv is a great venue to ask questions about all things related to employment — academic, practical or historical — to their LERA colleagues. Questions receive prompt, smart and thoughtful replies. And the discussions are well worth reading. Subscribe here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/listservs.
- Submit a nomination today. Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637
More reading (and listening) for LERA members:
Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].
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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: August 2017
- LERA members in the news: Blau, Appelbaum, Milkman, Houseman, Pavy, Kochan, Givan, Avgar, Ghilarducci
- Calls to Action
- More reading (and watching and listening) for LERA members
Member News:
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Francine Blau (Cornell) received the 2017 Mincer Prize for Lifetime Achievement in labor economics from the Society of Labor Economists in Raleigh, N.C., on May 5. She said she was “incredibly honored.”
Read the society’s description of Blau’s career: http://www.sole-jole.org/Mincer2017.html
Read about the Mincer Award: http://www.sole-jole.org/Mincer-Award-Main.html |
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This year’s Perspectives on Work (to be mailed: November) presents a feature section with contemporary portraits of (mostly) American industries — (Australian) auto, airlines, energy, manufacturing, higher education and health care. Leading off the issue is an excerpt from N.Y. Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle’s fine new book, Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters.
He acknowledges/quotes Eileen Appelbaum, Ruth Milkman, Susan Houseman and Gordon Pavy. He commented, “Tom Kochan has been very influential over many years in my thinking about manufacturing. … LERA is an organization that fights above its weight.”
Here’s a review of Making It: https://cms.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/louis-uchitelle/making-it/ |
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Rebecca Kolins Givan (Rutgers) has a new book, The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom. Ariel Avgar (Cornell) will review the book in Perspectives on Work this fall.
Here’s the book on the Cornell ILR Press web site: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100299370
Here’s an op-ed Givan wrote on the state of U.S. health care. https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/23/obamacare-repeal-listen-health-care-providers/ |
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From Teresa Ghilarducci’s Retirement Equity Lab at the New School: “Boomers’ Larger Birth Cohort Lowers Wages.”
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-i, “nsecurity-news/1714-new-research-larger-birth-cohort-lowers-wages
And more from Ghilarducci, “Mortality Gap Still High: More Blacks than Whites Die Before Retirement”: http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-news/1715-may-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55
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Calls to Action:
- Become a LERA Chapter member! Visit https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapters to see what chapter is closest to you!
- Save the Date! [email protected] 2018, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
- Submit a nomination today! Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637
More reading (and watching and listening) for LERA members:
Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].
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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: July 2017
- LERA members in the news: Brown, Ghilarducci, Batt, Appelbaum, Greenhouse, Krueger
- Calls to Action
- More reading (and listening) for LERA members
Member News:
Calls to Action:
- Save the Date! [email protected] 2018, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
- Submit a nomination today! Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637
- Publish in the LERA 2017 Proceedings! Did you present a paper this year in a LERA program? The deadline for submitting your paper is tomorrow, July 15! Here is the submission form: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5565808. Need more time? Let us know at [email protected]
Further reading:
Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].
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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: June 2017
- Member news: George Shultz, Seth Harris, Teresa Ghilarducci-Nancy Folbre, David Jacobs, David Autor
- Calls to action
- Further reading for LERA members
Member News:
Calls to Action:
- LERA’s 69th Annual Meeting wrapped up in Anaheim on June 4. Thanks to all who put the program together, spoke, sponsored, presented papers and otherwise contributed to a grand meeting. Look for complete coverage in Perspectives on Work, mailed to all members in November. In 2018 LERA’s 70th Annual Meeting is in Baltimore, MD, June 14-17. The 2019 LERA’s 71st Annual Meeting will be in Cleveland, OH.
- Presented in 2017 on a LERA program and interested in having your paper published in the 2017 LERA Proceedings? Submit your paper by July 15 at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5565808
Further reading:
Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].
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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: May 2017
- Member news: Weil, Katz, Krueger; Holzer; Reich, Rothstein; Autor; Election Announcement; LERA Award Recipients
- Calls to action: LERA 69th Annual Meeting Registration, Anaheim Hotel Update, Industry Councils to meet
- Further reading (and listening) for LERA Members
Member News:
More LERA Member News:
| • The results of the 2017 LERA Election are in. The newest members of the LERA Executive Board are named below and you can see more complete information here. |
LERA 2017 President Elect: Kris Rondeau
Newest Academic Members: Sylvia Allegretto and Virginia Doellgast
Newest Academic w/out IR/HR: Matthew Bodah |
Newest Neutral Member: Sheila Mayberry
Newest Labor Member: Joan Husted
Newest Management Member: Bill Dirksen |
First RVP, West Region: Jim Pruitt
First RVP, Mid Region: John Budd
First RVP, East Region: Michele Hoyman |
| • Be sure to congratulate the LERA 2017 Award Recipients! This year the LERA 69th Annual Meeting will feature an awards winner roundtable. It will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 3:45 pm, just prior to the LERA General Membership Meeting and Award Ceremony at the Hilton Anaheim.LERA 2017 Award Recipients |
Lifetime Achievement Awardees:
- Sir Peter Carr, UK National Health Service
- Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- John F. Burton Jr., Rutgers University (ret.)
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Academic Fellow Awardees:
- William H. Holley, Jr., Auburn University
- Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley
- Adrienne Eaton, Rutgers University
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Practitioner Fellow Awardees:
- Mark Cousens, Attorney
- Bill Dirksen, Ford Motor Company
- Mary Ellen Shea, Mediator / Arbitrator
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Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Awardee:
- Erica Groshen, Former Commissioner of Labor Statistics
John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Awardees:
- Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto
- Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University
LERA Outstanding Practitioner Awardee:
- Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO
LERA Media Awardees:
- Peter Waldman, Bloomberg
- Natalie Kitroeff, Los Angeles Times
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James G. Scoville Best International/Comparative IR/HR Paper Awardee:
- Peter Sheldon, University of New South Wales
- Raoul Nacamulli, Università di Milano -Bicocca
- Francesco Paoletti, Università di Milano -Bicocca
- David Morgan, University of New South Wales
Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Awardee:
- Bradley R. Weinberg, Cornell University
Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Honorable Mentions:
- Jae Eun Lee, Ithaca College
- Akasemi N. Newsome, University of California, Berkeley
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LERA Chapter Awards:
- TERRA - LERA Chapter Star Award
- LERA-Atlanta - LERA Chapter Star Award
- Long Island LERA - LERA Outstanding Chapter Award
- LERA Gateway - Merit Award for Chapters Helping Chapters
- Mid-Michigan LERA - Merit Award for Outstanding Programming.
- LERA Gateway - Chapters Helping Chapters
- Northwest (Seattle) LERA - Merit Awards for Consistent Chapter Excellence and Outstanding Programming.
- OC (Orange County) LERA - Merit Awards for Member Innovation and Chapter to National Relations.
- Oregon LERA - Merit Awards for Chapters Helping Chapters and Consistent Chapter Excellence.
- RU LERA - Merit Awards for Chapter Startup and Member Innovation.
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Alabama LERA - Merit Award for Chapter to National Relations.
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SW Pennsylvania LERA- Merit Awards for Member Innovation and Chapters Helping Chapters.
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Laurel Highlands LERA- Merit Award for Member Innovation and Chapters Helping Chapters.
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Calls to Action:
- Register for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. Headquartered at the Hilton Anaheim, the LERA 69th Annual Meeting will feature 89 events and sessions, including pre-conference day professional skill building workshops, an all-day port tour hosted by the Longshore Workers, and a night out at the Angel’s game on Friday, June 2.
Meeting Home: https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg
Program: http://leraoffice.org/drupalinclude/program.asp
- Have you made your hotel reservations at the Hilton Anaheim for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting? If you haven't yet, you may encounter difficulty getting a room on the nights of Saturday, June 3 or Sunday, June 4 as the hotel is selling out rapidly. If you would like a room in at the Sheraton at the Park at the Anaheim Resort adjacent to the Hilton Anaheim, contact them directly for availability. They are the closest to the Hilton Anaheim, are a union property and many LERA participants will be staying there.
- Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Brandeis University) is leading a re-invigoration effort of LERA’s Industry Councils and Interest Sections. Contact him at (217) 979-3771; [email protected]. He invites you to attend a meeting for LERA Industry Councils which will be held at the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, in Anaheim from 8:30 to 10 am in the California Ballroom B on Friday, June 2, 2017. A meeting for LERA Interest Sections will take place in the same room, immediately following, from 10:15 to 11:45 am.
Further reading:
Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].
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Open Call for Sessions and Papers for the LERA 73rd Annual Meeting!