Gerald Friedman

Biographic Data

ID3772062
NAMEGerald Friedman
GIVEN NAMESGerald
FAMILY NAMEFriedman
SIGNATUREFRIEDMAN G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
ORCID0000-0001-7068-7889
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS89
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX4

  • The Rise and fall of American growth

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2017References: 9

    Robert Gordon has written a big book. Rise and Fall is not only physically large, 784 pages, but it is mammoth in its scope, covering an extraordinary array of technological innovations and produce

  • Crucibles of black empowerment

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2015

    While, today, Atlanta is often viewed as the capital of Black America, and Harlem the capital for the early twentieth century, a strong case can be made for Chicago as the real center of African-Am

  • Shuttered factories and closed politics

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2015References: 3

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsGerald FriedmanGerald Friedman Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Gerald Friedman is the author of State-Making and Labor Movements. The United States and France, 1876–1914, Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement, and other works of labor history, economic history, and public policy. He is currently preparing an intellectual biography…

  • American Labor and American Law

    Open AccessGerald FriedmanARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2012

    Since Werner Sombart visited the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, scholars and activists have debated whether the American labor movement is “exceptionally” weak and conservative, and why. While some have accepted Exceptionalism and attributed it to the conservative values of American workers, others have attributed it instead to the power of business and the repressive posture of the American government. This article argues th…

  • The Labor Question in America

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2012

  • Labor History symposium

    Craig Phelan, Kim Phillips-Fein et al.ARTICLELabor History2011

    Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, by David Witwer, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03417-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-07666-4 (paper) David Witwer's Shado

  • Supervision and Authority in Industry

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2011

  • Labor History symposium

    Craig Phelan, Gerald Friedman et al.ARTICLELabor History2011

    Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies, by Judith Stein, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-300-11818-6 Judith Stein, Professor of Hist

  • The crisis and the economists

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2010

    Few economists anticipated the current economic crisis and economists continue to stand in the way of effective economic policy. Over a century after Karl Marx and nearly 75 years after John Maynard Keynes, orthodox economists continue to believe in a version of Say's Law where production is for consumption and economic crises originate in bad monetary policy. In the orthodox view, proper monetary policy is not only necessary but is sufficient fo…

  • Is Labor Dead

    Open AccessGerald FriedmanARTICLEInternational Labor and…2009Cited by: 1References: 8

    The Labor Movement has entered a crisis. Declining support for unions and for socialist political movements reflects the exhaustion of a reformist growth strategy where capitalists and state officials accepted unions in exchange for labor peace. While winning real gains for workers, this strategy undermined labor and its broader democratic aspirations by establishing unions and union and party leaders as authorities over the workers themselves. I…

  • Labor History symposium

    Craig Phelan, Frances Fox Piven et al.ARTICLELabor History2009Cited by: 1

    This article is less of a review of the above work than an analysis and discussion of some of its key arguments. Friedman’s book has two salient characteristics. First, the author has chosen not to restrict himself to a purely comparative approach to trade union decline: instead of examining the contrasting ways in which this phenomenon has played out in a number of countries, he treats it as a transnational occurrence which transcends national c…

  • Reigniting the Labor Movement

    Gerald FriedmanBOOKReigniting the Labor Movement2007

    1. The Rise of the Labor Movement 2. Dimensions of Decline 3. Explaining Growth to Explain Decline 4. Explaining Growth Spurts 5. Why did Growth Stop? 6. Growth Dialectics 7. Can Growth be Restarted

  • Labor History Theory and Practice Series

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLELabor History2006Cited by: 1

  • History

    Gerald M Friedman, Gerald Friedman et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2004

  • On Janet Iron's Testing the New Deal

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLEHistorical Materialism2003

  • Success and Failure in Third-Party Politics

    Open AccessGerald FriedmanARTICLEInternational Labor and…2002

    The durability of a two party system has been used as evidence of a popular consensus underlying American politics. Instead, I attribute the failure of third party movements to the American electoral system. By awarding election to the candidate with the most votes regardless of the total cast for other candidates, the simple-majority single-ballot (SMSB) system encourages rational voters to vote for the lesser-of-two-evils, their relative prefer…

  • The Civil War's Last Campaign

    Gerald Friedman, Mark A LauseARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Prologue Chapter 3 Third Party Origins Chapter 4 Towards a United Insurgency Chapter 5 The Unity Convention Chapter 6 The Southern Strategy Chapter 7 Bulldozed Chapter 8 The Bloody Shirt Chapter 9 Defeat in Victory Chapter 10 The Shadow of Fusion Chapter 11 Treachery & Betrayal Chapter 12 Epilogue Chapter 13 Conclusion Chapter 14 Appendix Chapter 15 Index

  • The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2000Cited by: 10References: 21

    Southern unions were the weak link in the American labor movement, organizing a smaller share of the labor force than did unions in the northern states or in Europe. Structural conditions, including a racially divided rural population, obstructed southern unionization. The South's distinctive political system also blocked unionization. A strict racial code compelling whites to support the Democratic Party and the disfranchisement of southern blac…

  • State-Making and Labor Movements

    Richard Schneirov, Gerald FriedmanARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876–1914. By Gerald Friedman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvi, 317 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8014-2325-2.) Get access Richard Schneirov Richard Schneirov Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1811–1812, https://doi…

  • August Sartorius von Waltershausen

    Gerald Friedman, David Montgomery et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    238-240

  • The Struggle over the Soul of Economics

    Gerald Friedman, Y Yonay et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2000

    327-328

  • U.S. Historical Statistics

    Gerald FriedmanARTICLEHistorical Methods A Journal of…1999Cited by: 4References: 13

    (1999). U.S. Historical Statistics: New Estimates of Union Membership the United States, 1880–1914. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 75-86

  • Labor and Urban Politics

    Gerald Friedman, Richard SchneirovARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1999

  • Revolutionary Unions and French Labor

    Gerald Friedman, Gerald C FriedmanARTICLEFrench Historical Studies1997Cited by: 3

    Since its publication in 1971, Peter Stearns's Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: A Cause without Rebels has haunted French labor history.' Rejecting the popular of French workers as revolutionaries, devotees of the period's most radical union movement, Stearns argues that revolutionary syndicalist activists were out of touch with French workers. Vigorous producers of distinctive and abundant rhetoric, syndicalists not characterize Frenc…

  • When Strikes Make Sense--And Why

    Gerald Friedman, Cohn et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

    Union Choices Affect Wages. Strikes and Wages: The Theoretical Relationship. Strikes and Wages: The Statistical Relationship. Empty Victories, Harmless Defeats. Is What You Ask For What You Get? The State Vs. Managers. Militancy and Accomodation. Schism and Steering. Limits of Militancy. Making Strikes Pay. Index