Barry Alan Bluestone

Background

Bluestone, Barry Alan was born on December 27, 1944 in Brooklyn. Son of Irving Julius and Zelda Bluestone.

Education

Bachelor in Economics, University Michigan, 1966. Master of Arts in Economics, University Michigan, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University Michigan, 1974.

Career

Professor economics Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1971-1986. Director public policy Doctor of Philosophy program University Massachusetts, Boston, 1987-1998. Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns trustee/professor political economy Northeastern University, since 1999, also founding director Center for Urban and Regional Policy.

Director Nommos Consultant Group, Salem, Massachusetts, since 1990. Dean Northeastern University School Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy.

Achievements

• Osterweil Prize Economics, 1966. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1966-1967. John Eliot Parker Award Labor Economics, 1971.
  
  Aspen Institute, Institution Fellow, 1983. C. Wright Mills Award (Honorable Mention), 1983.

Works

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  • Negotiating The Future: A Labor Perspective On American Business

    ( It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble—as...)

  • Negotiating The Future: A Labor Perspective On American Business

    ( It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble—as...)

  • Negotiating The Future: A Labor Perspective On American Business

    ( It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble—as...)

  • Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the Twenty-first Century

    ( In this elegantly argued book, political economists Bar...)

  • The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America

    ( This devastating critique by the authors of The Deindus...)

  • The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis

    (This volume documents Boston's metamorphosis from a casua...)

  • Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment and the Dismantling of Basic Industry

    (1 HARDCOVER BOOK)

  • The Deindustrialization of America
  • The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry by Bluestone, Barry, Harrison, Bennett (1984) Paperback
  • The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and t
  • The Great U-turn: Corporate Restructuring And The Polarizing Of America by Bluestone, Barry, Harrison, Bennett Reprint edition (1990) Paperback
  • Great U-Turn, The * Corporate Restructuring And The Polarization Of America
  • The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis by Barry Bluestone, Mary Huff Stevenson (2002) Paperback
  • Growing Prosperity The Battle for Growth with Equity in
  • [(Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the Twenty-First Century )] [Author: Barry Bluestone] [Jul-2000]
  • [(Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business )] [Author: Barry Bluestone] [Feb-1994]
  • [ Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business By Bluestone, Barry ( Author ) Paperback 1994 ]

• Other Work

  • Author: (books) The Deindustrialization of America, 1982, The Great U-Turn, 1988, Negotiating the Future, 1992, Growing Prosperity, 2000, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis, 2000.

Views

My early work focussed on low wage employment and dual labour market theory. Research on wage determination led me to conclude that, for the majority of the United States labour force, factors other than human capital dominated the wage determination process. In particular, unionisation and racial and gender discrimination were key factors for all groups of workers except highly skilled professionals.

Following up on a number of hypotheses raised by this early work, I turned my attention to pursuing a number of industry studies, in particular aircraft and retail trade. Research into these industries suggested the links between capital investment, capital mobility, labour market strategies and regional development. Along with research carried out by my colleague B. Harrison, these industry studies led me to investigate the problem of plant closings and worker dislocation in the United States.

This, in turn, generated the basis for our joint work on deindustrialisation. Changes in corporate behaviour in the postwar period toward enterprise location and labourmanagement relations is the central theme of this work. Most recently, Harrison and I have been investigating changes in the structure of the United States labour market and how these changes may affect the distribution of income and family living standards.

Membership

Senior advisor House Democratic leader Washington, 1995. Founding director Economic Policy Institute, Washington, since 1985. Member Gorbachev Foundation (senior fellow), International Center for Social Studies (scientific committee since 1997), Urban Outreach Council/Northeastern University (committee chair since 1999).

Interests

• Bicycle riding, tennis.

Connections

Married Mary Ellen Colten, Jun 14, 1987. 1 child, Joshua.

Father:

Irving Julius

Mother:

Zelda Bluestone

Spouse:

Mary Ellen Colten

child:

Joshua Bluestone