Kaufman inducted into Industrial Relations “Hall of Fame”
Professor Bruce Kaufman inducted into Industrial Relations “Hall of Fame”
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), a national association of labor and industrial relations academics, has selected Professor Bruce Kaufman (Economics), to be an Inaugural Fellow in the newly created Industrial Relations “Hall of Fame.” Officially called the Association of Fellows, the new LERA award is given to those scholars who have made the most substantial and widely recognized career contributions to scholarship and research in industrial relations. The other four fellows rounding out the inaugural class are: Richard Freeman (Harvard), Thomas Kochan (MIT), Francine Blau (Cornell), and Arne Kalleberg (UNC-Chapel Hill). The award was officially given at the LERA annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif., on January 4, 2009.
Kaufman has published numerous scholarly articles and has edited or written 21 books. Among them are The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States (winner of the 1992 Richard A. Lester award for "Best Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations"), Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice and Policy (2000, with D. Taras), and Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond: The Evolving Process of Employee Relations Management (2003, with R. Beaumont and R. Helfgott).
He recently wrote two books, published in 2005, The Origin and Early Development of Corporate Industrial Relations Programs and The Economics of Labor Markets, 7th ed. (with Julie Hotchkiss). Kaufman is also co-editor of the annual research volume Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, past-president of the University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Programs, and co-chair of the Industrial Relations Theory Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association.
Congratulations to Professor Kaufman on this recognition for his outstanding contributions to the field of industrial relations.
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Congratulations to Professor Bruce Kaufman (Economics) on receiving the 2008 AYS Teaching Award. The award is presented to a faculty member who has distinguished himself or herself by their teaching effectiveness as evidenced by student evaluations, innovation in the classroom, demand for their courses, commitment to curriculum development, development of teaching methods adopted by other faculty, distinguished advising, and the like.
Professor Kaufman is the third recipient of AYS Teaching Award, following in the footsteps of the 2007 award recipients Shelby Frost, clinical assistant professor (Economics) and Harvey Newman, professor and chair (PMAP).
