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Harvard economist, arbitrator and Secretary of Labor under President Gerald Ford. Dunlop advised 11 presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, on labor and economic policy. Anyojne's breaking Dunlop's presidential service record is highly improbable. One wag ventured that "the history of labor relations in the second half of the 20th century was in John Dunlop's Rolodex." , and were all LERA presidents who went on to serve as U.S. labor secretaries. | Harvard economist, arbitrator and Secretary of Labor under President Gerald Ford. Dunlop advised 11 presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, on labor and economic policy. Anyojne's breaking Dunlop's presidential service record is highly improbable. One wag ventured that "the history of labor relations in the second half of the 20th century was in John Dunlop's Rolodex." , and were all LERA presidents who went on to serve as U.S. labor secretaries. | ||
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Labor and Employment Relations Association Company type Labor Relations and Human Resources Professional Organization Founded 1947 Headquarters Champaign, Ill., USA Key people Gordon Pavy, President, AFL-CIO
David Lewin, President-Elect,UCLA,
Eileen Appelbaum, Past President, Center for Economic Policy and Research
Francoise Carre and Christian Weller, Editors in ChiefWebsite ]
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), founded in 1947, as the Industrial Relations Research Association, is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. Headquartered at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the national organization has more than 3,000 members. LERA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that draws its members from the ranks of academia, management, labor and "neutrals." The organization uses the slogan "Advancing Workplace Relations."
LERA's constituencies are professionals in the areas of academic research and education, compensation and benefits, human resources, labor and employment law, labor and management resources, labor markets and economics, public policy, training and development, and union administration and organizing.
Past presidents of LERA include John T. Dunlop,
- John T. Dunlop, LERA president, Secretary of Labor, Harvard economist.
- File:* Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.
- File:* Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- File:* David Lewin, Neil H. Jacoby Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
- File:* Lisa Lynch, dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
- File:* Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor emeritus at the Anderson Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Affairs, U.C.L.A.
- File:* Andrew Sum, professor of labor economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
- File:* Employment Regulations (David Weil, Boston University, topic leader)
- File:* Equal Employment Opportunity (Fidan Ana Kurtulus)
- File:* Globalization, Employment and Labor Standards (tba)
- File:* Immigration (tba)
- File:* Industry Studies/Strategies (Larry Hunter, University of Wisconsin, topic leader)
- File:* Labor Force Demographics/Supply (Andrew Sum and Paul Harrington, Northeastern, topic leaders)
- File:* Labor-Management Relations (Peter Berg, Michigan State, topic leader)
- File:* Public-Sector Employment Issues (Jeffrey Keefe, Rutgers, topic leader)
- File:* Regional Economic Development/Adjustment (Peter B. Doeringer, Boston University)
- File:* Skills, Work and Technology (David Feingold, Rutgers; Stephen Barley, Stanford; topic leaders)
- File:* Social Insurance (Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston, topic leader)
- File:* Unemployment - Jobs Deficit/Growth (Till von Wachter, Columbia, topic leader)
- File:* Wages-Compensation (Frank Levy, MIT, topic leader)
- File:* Work-Family Policy (Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, topic leader)
- File:Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award
- File:Chapter Merit Awards
- File:Excellence in Education Awards
- File:LERA Fellows
- File:Lifetime Achievement Award
- File:James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award
- File:John T. Dunlop Scholar Awards
- File:Outstanding Practitioner Award
- File:Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award
- File:Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant
- File:Michael R. Losey Human Resource Research Award
- File:Sloan Industry Fellowships
- File:Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Grant
- File:==External links==
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