Colloquium

 

Monday, October 19, 2009
4:00 pm
279 Haines Hall

 

Daniel J.B. Mitchell

Division of Labor:
California's Renewed Budget Crisis Splits the Union Movement

Presented by Daniel J. B. Mitchell, UCLA Anderson School of Management

 

About the Speaker

Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor-emeritus at the Anderson Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Affairs, U.C.L.A. Within the latter school, he chaired the Department of Policy Studies (now the Department of Public Policy) during 1996-1997. Prof. Mitchell was formerly director of the U.C.L.A. Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (1979-1990) and continues to serve on the Institute's advisory committee. During Phase II of the federal wage/price controls program of the early 1970s, Prof. Mitchell was chief economist of the Pay Board, the agency that administered wage controls. He was twice associated with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., including a stint as a senior fellow in the economic studies program (1978-1979), and participated in several Brookings-sponsored research projects.

 

This event is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and EmploymentThe Department of Sociology’s Work, Labor, and Social Movements Working Group (WLSM) and the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty