Harry C. Katz
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Harry Charles Katz is the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining
at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
.
Katz was born in The Bronx
, New York
, and grew up in Northern California. He received an A.B. (1973) and Ph.D.
(1977) in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley
, after which he taught at MIT
until 1985. He then went to Cornell and was appointed dean in 2005.
His research focuses on new structures for labor-management relationships in the United States, and his work argues the need for a more cooperative system. He is an expert on labor relations in the automobile and telecommunications industries both in the U.S. and abroad, and is often invited to lecture and about those industries and about current labor-management relationships in general.
Katz is the author of several books, including Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems, and the widely used textbook An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations.
Katz is married to Jan Hack Katz, a senior lecturer at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
, and has two children.
Collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiations between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions...
at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations is an industrial relations school at Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, USA...
.
Katz was born in The Bronx
The Bronx
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, New York
New York
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, and grew up in Northern California. He received an A.B. (1973) and Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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(1977) in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, after which he taught at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
until 1985. He then went to Cornell and was appointed dean in 2005.
His research focuses on new structures for labor-management relationships in the United States, and his work argues the need for a more cooperative system. He is an expert on labor relations in the automobile and telecommunications industries both in the U.S. and abroad, and is often invited to lecture and about those industries and about current labor-management relationships in general.
Katz is the author of several books, including Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems, and the widely used textbook An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations.
Katz is married to Jan Hack Katz, a senior lecturer at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University is a specialized business school for hospitality management founded in 1922 as the first four-year intercollegiate school devoted to the field...
, and has two children.