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Dana Frank (2000-01)
Labor in a Global Economy

Working People and the Challenge of Globalization

Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she teaches about labor history, gender, and class. She is the author of several books, including Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, coauthored with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley. Frank earned a doctorate from Yale University in 1988. She has served as vice president of the Southwest Labor Studies Association since 1996. She is a member of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Organization of American Historians. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers in l996-1997. She is currently researching the banana workers international labor movement in Central America.

William B. Gould, IV (2000-01)
Labor in a Global Economy

Labor Law for a Global Economy

William B. Gould IV is the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1994 to 1998, one of only three NLRB chairman to come from an academic background. Gould's memoir, Labored Relations: Law, Politics, and the NLRB, describes the tribulations of trying to ensure impartial administration of federal labor laws while faced with a hostile Republican Congress. Gould has arbitrated and mediated more than 200 labor disputes since 1965, including the Major League Baseball salary dispute in 1992 and 1993. He is author of more than 50 law journal articles and a number of books. His latest book, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, is about his grandfather.








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