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Gordon Lafer | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 1960 (age 64) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, 1995 B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College, 1983 |
| Occupation(s) | Political economist, writer |
| Notable work | The Job Training Charade |
Gordon Lafer is political economist writer who has served as Senior Labor Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor and has a history of Labor Union activism. He has written widely on labor and employment policy issues[1] and is the author of The Job Training Charade.[2]
Gordon Lafer started his political work as an economic policy analyst in the Office of the Mayor in New York City under Mayor Ed Koch.[3]
He was one of the leaders of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at Yale, which was on strike several times in the 1990s.[4][5]
Lafer served as Research and Communications Director for the Federation of University Employees at Yale.[6]
He ran a hotel workers' campaign with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142, in Hawaii,[7][8] and wrote about the campaign in the magazine, Dissent.[9]
He worked for ILWU Local 142, helping coordinate the boycott of the Pacific Beach Hotel,[10] which was found guilty of multiple labor law violates in federal court.[11] After a ten-year struggle, the hotel unionized in 2013.[12]
Lafer has served as Senior Labor Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and the Workforce,[13] a position that made him the top congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international trade treaties,[14] and he has been called to testify as an expert witness before multiple state legislatures.[15] He was the primary Congressional staff person responsible for the Local Jobs for America Act,[16] a bill that would have created one million decently-paid jobs and restored essential public services that were cut during the Great Recession. The bill was introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chair of the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce, but never became law.[17][18]
Lafer is a member of the Scholars' Advisory Council of In The Public Interest,[19] a research and policy center promoting democratic control of public goods and services.[20]
He is the founding co-chair of the American Political Science Association’s Labor Project,[21] and serves on the Board of Directors of the Shalom Hartman Institute,[22] a pluralistic center of research and education deepening and elevating the quality of Jewish life in Israel and around the world.[23]
His work has appeared in The Nation[24] and US News & World Report[25] and has been featured in the Washington Post,[26] The New York Times,[27] Fortune Magazine,[28] and other publications.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the Labor Education & Research Center at the University of Oregon and a Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute.[29]
Cornell University Press is publishing his book, The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time in 2017.[30]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.epi.org/people/gordon-lafer/
- ^ http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100040300
- ^ http://www.wpr.org/people/gordon-lafer
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/nyregion/graduate-students-union-seeks-official-recognition-from-yale.html
- ^ http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xix/4.7.95/news/geso.html
- ^ The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Bérubé (NYU Press, 2007) p. 39
- ^ http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/01/22/business/story1.html
- ^ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Sep/03/ln/ln07a.html
- ^ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-other-side-of-paradise-hawaiis-tourism-plantation
- ^ http://www.jca.apc.org/labornow/_userdata/PBH2013.pdf [p. 4]
- ^ http://www.longshoreshippingnews.com/tag/pacific-beach-hotel/
- ^ http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/20580284/labor-contract-oked-at-pacific-beach-hotel
- ^ http://www.epi.org/people/gordon-lafer/
- ^ https://www.ilwu.org/latest-free-trade-farce-the-tpp/
- ^ http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100151780&fa=author&person_id=1197
- ^ http://www.ilpc.org.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=6135&absid=234
- ^ https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr4812
- ^ http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2010/04/jobs-bill-could-open-doors-to-employment-for-pwd.html
- ^ https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/scholar-network/
- ^ https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/about-us/
- ^ http://www.shopfloor.org/Lafertestimony.pdf
- ^ https://hartman.org.il/About_Us_View.asp?Cat_Id=412&Cat_Type=About&Title_Cat_Name=Board%20of%20Directors
- ^ https://hartman.org.il/About_Us_View.asp?Cat_Id=187&Cat_Type=About&Title_Cat_Name=About%20Us
- ^ https://www.thenation.com/authors/gordon-lafer/
- ^ http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/are-right-to-work-laws-good-for-states/cutting-wages-and-benefits-only-harms-the-economy
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/11/02/heres-how-red-states-are-rolling-back-worker-protections/
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/scott-walker-and-the-fate-of-the-union.html
- ^ http://fortune.com/2015/02/11/paid-sick-leave-state-laws-bans/
- ^ http://goodbyewages.com/right-to-work/
- ^ http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100151780
Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:American writers Category:American political people Category:American political people Category:American economists Category:Yale University alumni Category:Swarthmore College alumni