Degree Granted: PHD University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990

Teaching Fields: Twentieth Century U.S., American Economic History

Research:  Twentieth Century U.S. business, social, and labor history

Selected Publications:
Books:
Selling Free Enterprise:  The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960, University of Illinois Press, 1994

Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, vols. 1-3, University of Illionois Press, 1986-1989

Articles:
"Promoting a Labour Perspective in American Mass Media: Unions and Radio in the CIO Era, 1936-1956," Media, Culture, and Society, 2000

"Business Propaganda in the Schools: Labor's Struggle against the Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System, 1949-1954," History of Education Quarterly, 2000

"Creating a Favorable Business Climate: Corporations and Radio Broadcasting, 1934-1954," Business History Review, Summer 1999

"Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947," (coauthored) Church History, March 1999

"Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930-1942," (coauthor) Labor History, Winter 1998

"Labor and Social Welfare: The Cio's Community Services Program, 1941-1956," Social Service Review, Dec. 1996

"A Mighty Voice for Labor: The Struggle to Create a National Daily Labor Newspaper, 1952-1958," Labor Studies Journal, Fall 1995

"Rank-and-File Rebellions and AFL Interference in the Affairs of NAtional Unions: The Gompers Era," (coauthor) Labor History, 1994

Contested Play: Companies, Unions, and Industrial Recreation, 1945-1960," Labor's Heritage, 1994

"Sound Comes to the Movies: The Philadelphia Musicians' Struggle Against Recorded Music," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1994