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Isador Lubin was born on June 9, 1896 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He was one of three children of Harris Lubin, a Lithuanian immigrant who owned a chain of clothing stores, and Hinda Francke.
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Isador Lubin was born on June 9, 1896 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He was one of three children of Harris Lubin, a Lithuanian immigrant who owned a chain of clothing stores, and Hinda Francke.
Lubin entered Clark College in 1912. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Clark in 1916. After spending several weeks at an ROTC training camp in Plattsburgh, New York, in the summer of 1916, he enrolled in the University of Missouri graduate program, where he studied under economist Thorstein Veblen. His academic career was interrupted by World War I. In 1919, he resumed his graduate studies at the University of Michigan and in 1926 received the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Brookings School of Economics and Government.
Lubin started his career in his father's clothing stores. In 1917 he was an undergraduate instructor at the University of Missouri. Between January and July of 1918 he worked under Veblen as a statistician for the United States Food Administration, assisting him in several studies of midwestern food production. From July 1918 to September 1919, he was a special expert for the War Industries Board. In 1920 Lubin became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan. He worked at Michigan until 1922, when he joined the staff of the Robert Brookings School of Economics and Government. He became a member of the Brookings faculty in 1923 and also taught at the University of Missouri as an assistant professor of economics in 1924.
During the 1926, Lubin concentrated on the economic problems of the coal industry, visiting coal mines in England and Germany in 1925. His research during this period resulted in the publication of two books: Miners' Wages and the Cost of Coal (1924) and The British Coal Dilemma (1927), the latter written with Helen Everett. He argued that lower prices and declining wages in the coal industry were caused by overproduction, and he advocated the nationalization of coal mines to reduce excess capacity. In 1928 Lubin became an adviser to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, which was investigating unemployment. He spent eight months during 1929 in Europe researching a book on government regulation of the radio industry. The project was never completed, however, because upon his return to America, Lubin was assigned to help a Senate subcommittee draft legislation for a public works program.
In 1930, Lubin was an economic adviser for the Senate Committee on Manufacturers, which was conducting a study of business organizations. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Lubin commissioner of labor statistics in May 1933. Lubin and his staff collected statistics on unemployment, wages, productivity, industrial accidents, and the cost of living. Lubin took a leave of absence from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in July 1940 to work in the labor section of the National Defense Advisory Board. He was also deputy director of the labor division of the Board's successor, the Office of Production Management. In these positions Lubin helped settle labor disputes that threatened production in defense-related industries. In May 1941, Roosevelt asked Lubin to establish an office in the White House to monitor defense production statistics and to serve as special statistical assistant to the Lend-Lease program. In 1942 he became director of the Statistical Analysis Branch, Munitions Assignment Board of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, which involved preparing the statistical charts for the War Room in the White House. Lubin went to London in December 1942 to confer with British officials on the standardization of statistical classifications. In January 1945, Lubin visited occupied Germany to prepare a report on economic conditions for the American military. Following this tour, he became the American representative to the Allied Reparations Commission meeting in Moscow in March 1945, where he worked closely with United States ambassador W. Averell Harriman. For health reasons, Lubin turned down President Harry S. Truman's request to serve on the Japanese reparations commission, but he continued to serve on the German commission until he resigned all of his government positions in January 1946. Afterward, Lubin became president and chairman of the board of Confidential Reports, Inc. , a theatrical accounting firm owned by several large motion-picture studios, including United Artists, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Brothers. He headed Confidential Reports until 1951. He also joined the board of directors of Decca Records. Lubin also became chairman of the executive committee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation in 1950, a position he held until his death. During the postwar period Lubin became interested in foreign economic development and technical aid.
From 1947 to 1949 he was the American representative to the Economic and Employment Commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSCO). In 1950, President Truman appointed Lubin the American representative to ECOSCO itself, and from then until 1952 he was also a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.
In addition to Lubin's participation in United Nations affairs, he was always deeply involved in the development of Israel. He first visited Palestine in 1929, and maintained a strong interest in the region from that time. In 1960 he became the representative of the United Israel Appeal to oversee the use of contributions in the immigration of settlers to Israel. He continued as a consultant until his death. In January 1955, Governor W. Averell Harriman of New York named Lubin head of the state industrial commission. Lubin's appointment was blocked by conservative legislators who were suspicious of his New Deal background. Harriman refused to withdraw the appointment and, after several weeks, the Senate Labor Committee approved the nomination. As industrial commissioner, Lubin advised Harriman on labor policies and advocated an antipoverty program based on a study he had commissioned as head of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation. The study criticized the federal government's failure to deal with the chronically poor and called for industrial training measures to eliminate the causes of poverty. Although a few welfare reforms and test projects were implemented, Lubin lacked the funding for a comprehensive poverty program. At the end of Harriman's term in 1959, Lubin was named Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Public Affairs at Rutgers University, from which he retired in 1961.
During the 1960's and 1970's he continued to work as a consultant for a number of governmental and private agencies, including the Bureau of the Budget, the Twentieth Century Fund, and the American Jewish Committee.
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Lubin stressed the need to provide technical and financial assistance to developing countries and especially the need to transfer industrial technologies.
Lubin was an active board member of various organizations, such as the Palestine Economic Corporation, the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Lubin married Alice E. Berliner, the daughter of gramophone inventor Emile Berliner, on September 15, 1923. They had a daughter before their divorce in 1928. On February 29, 1932, he married Ann Shumaker, the editor of Progressive Education. She died in 1935, shortly after giving birth to Lubin's second daughter. His third wife was Carol Riegelman, a member of the International Labor Organization staff. They married in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 30, 1952. The couple had no children.