Stephen Amberg, Ph.D.

A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2022).

The Union Inspiration in American Politics:  The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).

“How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession,” Polity 54 no. 4 (October 2022): 684 - 708.  DOI: 10.1086/721232.

“Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy: How Electoral Competition and Social Collaboration Evolved in 20^th Century New York”, Studies in American Political Development 31 no. 1 (April 2017): 108 – 129.

“Social Learning in Active Labor Market Policy in Denmark:  The Possibility of Policy Experimentalism and Political Development", Socio-Economic Review 13 no. 4 (2015): 703 – 721.

“Reconfiguring Industry Structure:  Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies” in Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change, editors Gerald Berk, Victoria Hattam, and Dennis Galvan (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013): 100 – 119, 314 – 21.

“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.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010): 247 – 51.

“Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States”, Polity 40 no. 2 (Spring 2008): 164 – 196.

“Varieties of Capitalist Development: Worker-Manager Relations in the Texas Apparel Industry, 1935-1975”, Social Science History 30 no. 2 (Summer 2006): 231 – 262.

“Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas”, Social Science History 28 no. 1 (Spring 2004): 145 – 188. Selected in 2005 as an article of "particular interest" by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. The Center posted it on its American Political Development website (americanpoliticaldevelopment.org).

“Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States”, Studies in American Political Development 17 no. 1 (Spring 2003): 34 – 60.

"The CIO Political Strategy in Historical Perspective:  Creating a High-Road Economy in the Postwar Era", in Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994, edited by Kevin Boyle (Albany:  SUNY Press, 1998): 159 – 194.

"The Contrasting Consequences of Institutions and Politics:  Labor and Industrial Relations in the United States and Germany", Political Power and Social Theory 10 (1996): 195 – 227.

"Institutional Frameworks and Production Systems", International Contributions to Labour Studies 3 (1993): 51 – 66.

"Democratic Producerism:  Enlisting American Politics for Workplace Flexibility", Economy and Society 20 no. 1 (February 1991): 57 – 78.

"Triumph of Industrial Orthodoxy: The Collapse of Studebaker-Packard", in On the Line:  Essays in the History of Auto Work, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer (Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1989): 190 – 218.

"Springfield: Cut First, Restore Later" in Proposition 2 1/2:  Its Impact on Massachusetts, edited by Lawrence Susskind (Cambridge, MA:  Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1983): 239 – 251. 

Review of Christopher W. Shaw, Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic, Journal of American History 108/1 (June 2021): 180 -81.

 https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaab116

Review of John Ehrenreich, Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream, Journal of American History 104/1 (June 2017): 283 – 84.

Review of Andreas Bergh, Sweden and the Future of the Capitalist Welfare State, International Journal of Social Welfare 24/3 (July 2015): 305 – 06.

Review of Andrew Battista, “The Revival of Labor Liberalism”, Journal of American History (March 2009): 1251 – 52.

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): 378 – 79.

Review of John Barnard, “American Vanguard:  The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970”, Journal of American History (March 2005): 1535 – 36.

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): 890 – 91.

Review of Taylor E. Dark, "The Unions and the Democrats:  An Enduring Alliance", American Political Science Review 94/1 (March 2000): 187 – 88.

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 (Fall 1998): 236 – 39.

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 91/1 (March 1997): 181 – 83.

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): 344 – 46.

Review of Melvyn Dubofsky, "The State and Labor in Modern America", Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1995): 473 – 74.

Review of Kathryn Marie Dudley, "The End of the Line:  Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America", Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49/1 (October 1995): 186 – 87.

Review of Michael Schudson, "Watergate in American Memory:  How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past", Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1993): 562 – 63.

Review of Steven Fraser, "Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor", Review of Politics 55/2 (Spring 1993): 378 – 81.

Review of Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, editors, "Major Problems in the History of American Workers", Labor History 33/4 (Fall 1992): 568 – 69.

Review of Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, editors, "The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980", Business History Review (Spring 1991): 190 – 94.

Review of Daniel Nelson, "American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941", Business History Review (Spring 1989): 206 – 209.

The 2022 Midterm Results Show How the US Party Realignment is Continuing", American Politics and Policy Blog. The U.S. Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (November 26, 2022). http://bit.ly/3U9Fzjf.

 "One More Time: Party Convergence on Jim Crow Elections?", CLIO 30/2 (Summer 2021). https://connect.apsanet.org/documents/clio-volume-30-issue-2-summer-2021/

 “Forget Polarization; Now We’re Talking Sedition”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, January 16, 2021).

https://www.expressnews.com%2Fopinion%2Fcommentary%2Farticle%2FCommentary-Forget-polarization-now-we-re-15874840.php

 “Cornyn Has Been, and Will Be, a Barrier to Progress”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, October 23, 2020). https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/Commentary-Cornyn-has-been-and-will-be-a-15667780.php

 “In Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Democrats are Challenging an Unprecedented Populist Demagogue”, American Politics and Policy Blog. The U.S. Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (October 16, 2020). https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog

 “Trump Deserves a Fair Senate Trial”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, January 14, 2020).

https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/Commentary-Trump-deserves-a-fair-Senate-trial-14974512.php

 “Restoring Faith in Democracy”, San Antonio Express-News (Sunday Opinion Section page 1, June 9, 2019). https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/The-threat-to-American-democracy-Cynicism-13961071.php.

 "Support the Rights of Workers", San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, March 12, 2018).

 "Support bargaining power for workers", Laredo Morning Times (March 11, 2018).

https://www.lmtonline.com/opinion/commentary/article/Support-bargaining-power-for-workers-12742287.php

 “Comment on the Election 2016”, CLIO (Winter 2016 – Spring 2017): 6, 22 – 23.

 “Trump’s Challenge in Historical Perspective”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, December 10, 2016). http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Trump-s-challenge-in-historical-perspective-10786354.php?cmpid=email-desktop

 “War on Poverty Worked; Ryan’s Plan All Talk”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, June 26, 2016): F1.  http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Ryan-is-wrong-Programs-did-cut-into-poverty-8323909.php

 “The 2016 Election Needs a Class-oriented Agenda”.  The American Politics and Policy Blog. The U.S. Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (June 7, 2016). http://bit.ly/1rbFrC5

 “Has Sanders Turned the Democratic Party Socialist?”, Newsweek (Editorial, June 12, 2016). https://www.newsweek.com/has-sanders-turned-democratic-party-socialist-468506

“How to Overcome the Patriotic Gore of Racism”, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture (October 2015). http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/10/field-notes/how-to-overcome-the-patriotic-gore-of-racism

 "Speaking to Working People and Turnout Will Improve", San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, May 23, 2015).

 “Protect First Amendment, Criticize Provocateurs”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, May 18, 2015).  http://m.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Protect-1st-Amendment-criticize-provocateurs-6267078.php

 “This is What Oligarchy Looks Like: Notes from Texas”, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture (June 2014). http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/field-notes/notes-from-texas

 “Madness, But There’s a Method to It”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, October 6, 2013).  http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Madness-but-there-s-a-method-to-it-4866527.php

 “The Depths of ‘A Sorry Vein of Racial Prejudice’”, Huffington Post (Commentary co-authored with Sahar Aziz, March 25, 2013).  Reprinted many times.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sahar-aziz/the-depths-of-a-sorry-vei_b_2909190.html

 "The Republican Wrecking Party", San Antonio Express-News (Op-ed, February 27, 2011).

 "New Directions in the Evolution of the Trans-Atlantic Economic Community", blogpost at the Transatlantic Studies Association (July 2010). transatlantictransformations.blogspot.com.

 "Community Organizations Should Engage Electoral Politics", a letter essay in a debate about on community power-building, The Boston Review 20 no. 2 (April-May 2003).

 "Toyota Will Bring a New Philosophy to S.A. Industry", San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, February 19, 2003).

My website at stephenamberg.net:

• • “Anatomy of Congressional Misrepresentation” (October 7, 2013).  A version also was published in the San Antonio Express-News on October 6, 2013. 
  • “A Sorry Vein of Racial Prejudice”, co-authored with Sahar Aziz (March 25, 2013).  Also published on Huffingtonpost.com. 
  • “Right to Work at The Times” (January 22, 2013).
  • “Was Market Fundamentalism Bailed Out?" (January 16, 2012).
  • “December Wrapping” (December 21, 2011).
  • “A Familiar Partisan Dynamic: Left Cleans Up and Gets Blamed for the Mess” (November 10, 2011).
  • “Union Successes in the Midwest but Will the Dems Take Credit?” (November 10, 2011).
  • “What’s a Moderate Journalist Worth?” (October 21, 2011).
  • “Repudiation, Not Responsibility” (October 2, 2011).
  • “Now and Then” (September 29, 2011).
  • “Lessons Ten Years After” (September 24, 2011).
  • “Summer Blues” (September 17, 2011).
  • “Symbiotic Relationship” (July 11, 2011).
  • “Friends Like These” (June 21, 2011).
  • “London Calling” (June 15, 2011).
  • “See No Evil” (June 14, 2011).
  • “Quote-unquote Job Creators” (June 5, 2011).
  • “Empower the Voters” (June 4, 2011).
  • “Views Mostly Unpublished by the San Antonio Press” (June 2, 2011).

“Activation in Two Countries without Strong Employment Security:  Denmark’s Labor Market Governance from an American Perspective”, a study for a comparative research project.  Foundation for a research grant proposal to the Russell Sage Foundation. Short-listed for a Presidential Authority Award. 2010 - 2011.

“Proposal for an Alamo Strategy Center at the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute”. A proposal for a labor market research center supported by the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute at UTSA. 1998.

Work, Recreation, and Culture:  Essays in American Labor History, edited by Martin Blatt and Martha Norkunas (NY:  Garland, 1996). I was a member of the Editorial Board for this collection. Lowell Industrial History Conference Papers, U.S. Department of the Interior.   

"The Political Construction of Economic Space:  Restructuring in Four American Regions", a project supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award.  1996.

"Skills, Sectors, Schools, States and Unions:  Reconfiguring Apprenticeship for American Manufacturing".  1993.  Study that became a submitted article to Politics & Society. Revised and resubmitted but unpublished.

"Labor and Trade After Fast Track", La Voz (San Antonio TX:  Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 1992).

"Competition and Political Capacity:  The Case of Industrial Tooling", research supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award.  1989.  This study contributed to my article "Institutional Frameworks and Production Systems" in International Contributions to Labour Studies (1993).

"The Origins of Affirmative Action in Massachusetts:  The Politics of Labor Market Segmentation in the Construction Industry".  The Boston Jobs Coalition.  1981.

"The Urban Question Today", a review essay of Stephen Schecter, The Politics of Urban Liberation [Montreal: Black Rose Books], Black Rose Magazine 2 (1979): 37 - 44.

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

"States, Social Power, and Policy Innovation: A Pragmatist Analysis of the Biden Administration's Reconfiguration of State-Society Boundaries". Paper prepared for the Panel on Policy Loops and Loopholes: Feedback Processes in North America and Europe. Policy History Conference. June 7, 2023.

"The National Realignment of the Parties Continues". Panel Presentation for Assessing the 2022 Midterm Election Results and What It Means for 2024.  Department of Political Science and Geography Faculty Lecture Series.  November 14, 2022.

"The Green Steel Deal". Panel Presentation for the COP26 Briefing on Global Impact, Sustainability, and U.S. Policy. Department of Political Science and Geography (DPSG) Faculty Lecture Series. November 19, 2021.

“The Prospects for Policy Model Change in the Biden Administration”.  Talk prepared for the Roundtable on the U.S. Elections and World Politics. DPSG Lecture Series. November 6, 2020.

“Elite Policy Networks in the Political Transformation of the U.S.” Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Conference. September 7, 2020.

“Framing Labor Market Regulation and the Reconstruction of the U.S. Welfare State”. Annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. New York.  June 27, 2019.

“Social Investment and Social Bargaining Strategies in State and Local Labor Markets in the U.S.: Policy Elites and Social Justice Campaigns for Democracy and Broadly Shared Prosperity”. Labor and Employment Research Association 71^st Annual Meeting. Cleveland OH. June 14, 2019.

“Social Investment and Social Bargaining Strategies in State and Local Labor Market Regulation”, Symposium on Federalism in U.S. Work Regulation.  Co-sponsored by the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Rutgers University. November 2018.

“Patterns of State and Local Reform in Labor Market Regulation in the United States: Emerging Reform Coalitions to Revive Liberal Democracy and Broadly Shared Prosperity”. Presentation in the DPSG Faculty Lecture Series, UTSA. October 12, 2018.

“Negotiating New Equity Commitments in Turbulent Labor Markets: New Directions in Labor Market Regulation in the U.S.”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics annual meeting. Kyoto, Japan. June 24, 2018.

“Competing Political Analyses of the End of Neoliberalism”.  Presentation in the DPSG Faculty Lecture Series, UTSA. March 29, 2018.

“The Electoral Politics of Evolving Neoliberal Capitalism in the U.S.”, Southwestern Social Science Association annual meeting. Austin, Texas. April 15, 2017.

“Beyond the Liberal Democrats’ Social Investment Politics”, paper delivered at the Latino Strategy Conference of the Southwest Voter Education and Research Project.  San Antonio, Texas. December 16, 2016.

"A Debate About the Policies We Need to Govern the U.S. or a Debate About Scandal and Trump's Personality?”, presentation delivered at the Presidential Debate Watch Panel sponsored by the DPSG, UTSA. October 19, 2016.

“Explanations for Labor Rights Compliance Problems: The United States Case of Labor Rights Policy Development”, paper presented at the 27^th annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.  London School of Economics and Politics. July 2015.

"How to Increase Voter Turnout", Final Friday Forum in San Antonio (The Texas Observer: October 24, 2014).

“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”, a lecture that was part of a public event to inaugurate the Global Affairs Degree Program. DPSG Faculty Lecture and Colloquia Series, UTSA. April 17, 2014.

 “Ruth O’Brien’s Out of Many, One: Obama & the Third American Political Tradition: Are Working Class Americans Included?”, paper delivered on a book panel in the Division on Presidents and Executive Politics at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2013.

“After the Election Will the U.S. be Governable?”, a lecture that was part of a public event on the presidential election.  DPSG Faculty Lecture and Colloquia Series, UTSA.  October 23, 2012.

“Assemblages and Agents in Explanations of Institutional Change”, for The Contours of the American State and the Making of Public Policy, a “short course” organized by the American Politics Group (United Kingdom) at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.  September 2012.

“The Costs of the War in Treasure and Truth”, a lecture that was part of a colloquium on The Lessons of the U.S. War in Iraq, with Geoffrey Corn, Mary Ann Tetreault, and Mansour El-Kikhia.  DPSG Colloquia Series, UTSA.  April 11, 2012.

 “The Obama Administration and the Long Crisis of the American Automobile Industry”, paper for the conference on Power and the History of Capitalism, co-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.  New York. April 2011. 

“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.

"Trapezoid or Triangle?", paper delivered at the Transatlantic Triangles Workshop. Transatlantic Studies Association. Copenhagen Business School. June 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 8, 2010.

“The Progressive Political Tradition in New York: Multi-Party Elections and the Pragmatist Style of Self-Government”.  Keynote speaker lecture for the conference “New York, New York”. The University of Southern Denmark, Odense. 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.

“Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative and the Constitution”. Public lecture delivered to the Free Thinkers’ Association. The Unitarian Universalist Church in San Antonio, Texas. March 2009.

“Workers Rights are Human Rights”.  Talk delivered on International Human Rights Day at UTSA. Sponsored by the UTSA Chapter of Amnesty International. March 2009.

“Constructing a New Order of Labor Markets in late 20^th 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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Labor Adjustment Politics in the United States:  Regional Diversity in National Strategy”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference.  August 2003.

“Political Development and Political Change:  The Case of Universal Labor Standards in the United States”, paper prepared for the Policy History Conference.  May 2002. 

"Is the Decline of Labor an Argument Against American Political Development?". Paper and talk at the UT-Austin Government Department Faculty Lecture Series. April 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.

"Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference.  November 2000.

"Collective Bargaining:  A 20^th Century Policy Whose Time Is Up? Arguments about Unions and Political Development", paper prepared for the Conference on Policy History.  St. Louis University. May 1999.

"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.

"Political Reconstruction of Regional Economies in the United States", paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual conference.  March 1997.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"Alternatives to Fordism:  The Autoworkers in the Postwar Settlement", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference.  October 1983.