Gordon Lafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 313499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Lafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafer |
| SIGNATURE | LAFER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Listening Tour with Labor’s Trump Voters
Right-to-Work
Election 2012
From Baghdad to the Bayou
Wal” of Shame
Hospital Speedups and the Fiction of a Nursing Shortage
In recent years, hospital managers and public policy makers alike have focused considerable energy on the prospect of an imminent national shortage of hospital nurses. In response, officials have urged both increased funding for nursing schools and increased importation of foreign nurses from the Philippines and other developing countries. The study below documents that this policy direction is fundamentally misguided. There is no shortage of nur…
Justice on the Table, 2003, 25 minutes
Neoliberalism by Other Means
This paper offers a theoretical framework for understanding both the invasion of Iraq and the “war on terror” in the context of neoliberal globalization. I argue that both the foreign and domestic policy pursued by the Bush administration under the rubric of the war on terror are in fact best understood as strategies for advancing the neoliberal agenda, in large part by seeking to undo gains made by the labor movement during the 1990s. I argue th…
Graduate Student Unions
The past few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in organizing among academic employees, particularly graduate student teach ers. This movement has come in response to trends toward corporatization of higher education over the past twenty years, trends including casualization of teaching staff, commercialization of research, and commodification of instruction. The graduate student movement won an important victory in 2001 when the NLRB recognize…
Land and labor in the post-industrial university town
The Job Training Charade
The Politics of Job Training
Minority Unemployment, Labor Market Segmentation, and the Failure of Job-Training Policy in New York City
Job-training policy rests on the assumptions that employment opportunities are plentiful, if only everyone were adequately educated, and that increasing the upward mobility of black and Hispanic workers serves the interests of employers as well as employees. These assumptions are challenged. Data are presented suggesting that there simply are not enough decently paying jobs for the number of people who need them. Labor market segmentation and the…
Neoliberalism by Other Means
This paper offers a theoretical framework for understanding both the invasion of Iraq and the “war on terror” in the context of neoliberal globalization. I argue that both the foreign and domestic policy pursued by the Bush administration under the rubric of the war on terror are in fact best understood as strategies for advancing the neoliberal agenda, in large part by seeking to undo gains made by the labor movement during the 1990s. I argue th…
Land and labor in the post-industrial university town
The Politics of Job Training
Hospital Speedups and the Fiction of a Nursing Shortage
In recent years, hospital managers and public policy makers alike have focused considerable energy on the prospect of an imminent national shortage of hospital nurses. In response, officials have urged both increased funding for nursing schools and increased importation of foreign nurses from the Philippines and other developing countries. The study below documents that this policy direction is fundamentally misguided. There is no shortage of nur…
Graduate Student Unions
The past few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in organizing among academic employees, particularly graduate student teach ers. This movement has come in response to trends toward corporatization of higher education over the past twenty years, trends including casualization of teaching staff, commercialization of research, and commodification of instruction. The graduate student movement won an important victory in 2001 when the NLRB recognize…
Minority Unemployment, Labor Market Segmentation, and the Failure of Job-Training Policy in New York City
Job-training policy rests on the assumptions that employment opportunities are plentiful, if only everyone were adequately educated, and that increasing the upward mobility of black and Hispanic workers serves the interests of employers as well as employees. These assumptions are challenged. Data are presented suggesting that there simply are not enough decently paying jobs for the number of people who need them. Labor market segmentation and the…
The Politics of Job Training
Graduate Student Unions
The past few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in organizing among academic employees, particularly graduate student teach ers. This movement has come in response to trends toward corporatization of higher education over the past twenty years, trends including casualization of teaching staff, commercialization of research, and commodification of instruction. The graduate student movement won an important victory in 2001 when the NLRB recognize…
Land and labor in the post-industrial university town
The Job Training Charade
Neoliberalism by Other Means
This paper offers a theoretical framework for understanding both the invasion of Iraq and the “war on terror” in the context of neoliberal globalization. I argue that both the foreign and domestic policy pursued by the Bush administration under the rubric of the war on terror are in fact best understood as strategies for advancing the neoliberal agenda, in large part by seeking to undo gains made by the labor movement during the 1990s. I argue th…
Hospital Speedups and the Fiction of a Nursing Shortage
In recent years, hospital managers and public policy makers alike have focused considerable energy on the prospect of an imminent national shortage of hospital nurses. In response, officials have urged both increased funding for nursing schools and increased importation of foreign nurses from the Philippines and other developing countries. The study below documents that this policy direction is fundamentally misguided. There is no shortage of nur…
Justice on the Table, 2003, 25 minutes
Wal” of Shame
From Baghdad to the Bayou
Right-to-Work
Election 2012
A Listening Tour with Labor’s Trump Voters
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works)