The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics with Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter

Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University
The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics with Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter

Podcast by Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University

  1. Harry Katz on his push for a more cooperative environment in labor-management relationships

    9 DEC

    Harry Katz on his push for a more cooperative environment in labor-management relationships

    Harry Katz, the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, discusses his academic background, his studies of collective bargaining, his work with the United Auto Workers (UAW), and his ongoing thoughts on how to make labor negotiations more inclusive and cooperative. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-12/036-TWGO-Katz_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/harry-katz-2024

    32 min
  2. Henry Farber on his path from Teamster to one of the preeminent researchers of labor economics

    19 NOV

    Henry Farber on his path from Teamster to one of the preeminent researchers of labor economics

    Henry Farber, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics emeritus at Princeton University, discusses his early life growing up in an industrial, working-class town in New Jersey, his early interest in labor unions and his nearly fifty-year-long study of labor economics. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-11/035-TWGO-Farber_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/henry-farber-2024

    29 min
  3. George Borjas on his journey from Cuba to Harvard and his work on the “hot” topic of immigration

    31 OCT

    George Borjas on his journey from Cuba to Harvard and his work on the “hot” topic of immigration

    George Borjas, the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses his early life in Cuba, his experiences as an immigrant in the United States, his schooling at Columbia University, and his thoughts on the current immigration debate in the United States. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-11/034-TWGO-Borjas_transcript.pdf. For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/George-Borjas-2024.

    33 min
  4. Robert Moffitt on his “rewarding” career integrating economics, sociology and public policy

    17 OCT

    Robert Moffitt on his “rewarding” career integrating economics, sociology and public policy

    Robert Moffitt, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his early education, his interest in labor economics, applied microeconometrics, and welfare policy, and how his work has influenced major debates in public policy, especially the economics of low-income populations in the United States. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/033-TWGO-Moffitt_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-moffitt-2024

    34 min
  5. Samuel Bowles on his deep interest in the causes of inequality & his work to transform economics

    7 OCT

    Samuel Bowles on his deep interest in the causes of inequality & his work to transform economics

    Samuel Bowles, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, discusses his deep-rooted interest in economic inequality and how his work has challenged many of the conventional assumptions of modern economic theory. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/032-TWGO-Bowles_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/samuel-bowles-2024

    37 min
  6. Marjorie McElroy on a long academic career and navigating the economics profession as a woman

    23 SEPT

    Marjorie McElroy on a long academic career and navigating the economics profession as a woman

    Marjorie McElroy, Professor of Economics at Duke University, joins the podcast to discuss her long and varied academic career, her research on the economics of marriage and the family, and, especially, the challenges and gender discrimination she faced as, at the time, one of the few female economists pursuing a traditionally male-dominated profession. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/031-TWGO-McElroy_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/marjorie-mcelroy-2024

    25 min
  7. Orley Ashenfelter on the “irresistible” pull of policy evaluation & why the IR Section is so special

    18 AUG

    Orley Ashenfelter on the “irresistible” pull of policy evaluation & why the IR Section is so special

    For the 30th episode of "The Work Goes On", we flipped the script and asked our long-time host Orley Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Princeton University and former director of Princeton’s Industrial Relations Section (IR Section), to start answering questions instead of asking them. Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton and one of Orley’s former students, joins us in this episode as a special guest host. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-09/030-TWGO-Ashenfelter_transcript.pdf. For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/orley-ashenfelter-2024

    31 min
  8. Ernst Stromsdorfer on studying vocational training in academia, government, and the private sector

    10 JUN

    Ernst Stromsdorfer on studying vocational training in academia, government, and the private sector

    Ernst Stromsdorfer, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Washington State University, joins the podcast to discuss his impressive body of research on the impact of labor market programs on different groups of people, and his wide-ranging career across academia, the private sector, and state and federal governments. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-06/029-TWGO-Stromsdorfer_transcript3.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/ernst-stromsdorfer-2024

    23 min
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