CURRICULUM VITAE
Richard A Greenwald

Address:
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
Drew University
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, New Jersey 07940
973-408-3958
973-408-3040 fax
rgreenwa@drew.edu

Appointments at Drew University:
Dean, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, January 2008--.
Associate Professor of History, 2005— (Tenure awarded 2007).
Founding Director, Business, Society & Culture Program, 2005—.
Other Employment:
• Assistant Professor of History and Humanities; Assistant Head of Humanities, Summer 2000 – 2005, Tenured 2004, Promoted to Associate Professor July 2005. United States Merchant Marine Academy
o Taught courses in Modern US History, economic and business history.
o Administrative responsibilities for budget, scheduling classes, and personnel in the Humanities.
• Assistant Professor of Social and Behavior Science, SUNY-Orange, 1999-2000. (Tenure-track)
• Assistant Professor of Social Science, 1995 -- 1999
Morrisville State College, State University of New York (Tenure-Track)
Education:
o Ph.D. in American History, New York University, May 1998
Dissertation: “Bargaining for Industrial Democracy: Labor, the State and the New Labor Relations in Progressive Era New York.” (Director: Daniel J. Walkowitz)
o M.Phil. in American History, New York University, May 1995
o Graduate Study, PhD Program in American History, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 1988-90. (Advisor: Alan Brinkley)
o BA in American History, with honors, Queens College, CUNY 1987
Publications
Books
• The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and the Making of Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (Temple University Press, 2005). Hardcover and Paperback. Reviewed in Labor History, Labor, Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Working USA, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journal of American History, Work and Occupations, Contemporary Sociology, and Labor Studies Journal.
• Sweatshop U.S.A.: Essays in Social History Co-edited Volume with Daniel Bender (Routledge, 2003). Hardcover and Paperback. Reviewed in Journal of American History, American Historical Review, International Labor and Working-Class History, Business History Review.
• Exploring America's Past: Essays in Social History Since 1865 (Rowan & Littlefield, 1996). Edited Anthology. Hardcover and Paperback.

Articles and Essays
• “Working the Docks: Labor, Management and the New Waterfront,” Review of Business, 35:4 (Fall 2004.), 16-22.
• “Labor, Liberals and Sweatshops: The Disappearance of the Sweatshop in Mid-Twentieth Century America,” in Sweatshop USA (New York: Routledge, 2003), 77-90.
• “Sweatshop USA: An Introduction,” Co-authored with Daniel Bender, in Sweatshop USA (New York: Routledge, 2003), 1-18.
• “The Burning Building at 23 Washington Place”: The Triangle Fire, Workers and Reformers in Progressive Era New York,” New York History, (Winter 2002), 55-91.
• “New York Workers and 9/11,” in International Labor and Working-Class Studies (Fall 2002).
• “Border Crossings: On Teaching Working-Class Students,” Co-authored with Elizabeth Grant in Teaching Working Class edited by Sherry Linkon (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), 28-38.
• “Radicalism Lost and Found,” in Radical History Review 1998 (72), 198-206.
• “Industrial Relations and Ethnicity: The Case of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Progressive Era New York,” Business and Economic History 27:2 (Winter 1998) 27:2.
• “Workers, Health, and Community: Danbury Connecticut's Struggle with Industrial Disease,” Labor's Heritage 2:3 (July 1990), 4-21.
• “Robert F. Wagner,” “Frances Perkins,” “Triangle Fire,” “Factory Investigating Committees,” “George Meany,” and “David Dubinsky.” In The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003).
• “Fair Labor Standards Act” and “The National Industrial Recovery Act,” in The Encyclopedia of the New Deal and Great Depression (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002).
• “Sweatshop” and “Women’s Trade Union League,” entries in Dictionary of American History (ABC-CLIO, 2004).
• “Sweatshop,” “Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” and “Eleanor Roosevelt,” in Encyclopedia of Work (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2004).
• “Thomas ‘Teddy’ Gleason,” “Joseph Rauh,” “Albert Shanker,” and “Sidney Korshack” in Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives Volume 3 and 4 (New York: Scribner’s, 2004).
Reviews (Selected):
• Review of Howard Brick's Transcending Capitalism: Visions of New Society in Modern American Thought for Reviews in American History (Forthcoming) and The Common Reader (forthcoming)
• Review of Josiah Barlett Lambert, “If Workers Took a Notion:” The right to strike and American Political Development for American Historical Review (Forthcoming)
• Review of Graham Russell and Gao Hodges, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver for Labor History (Forthcoming)
• Review of Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960, ed. Eslpeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis, and Marina Moskowitz for Journalism History (Forthcoming)
• Review of Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (forthcoming).
• Review of E. Kay Gibson, Brutality on Trial: Hellfire Pedersen, Fighting Hansen, and the Seaman’s Act of 1915 in Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthingcoming).
• Review of David B. Reyolds, Ed., Partnering for Change: Union and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice in Labor History 47:4 (Fall 2006)
• Review of Ileen A. DeVault, United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism in Enterprise and Society 7:2 (June 2006).
• Review of Robert Parmet, Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement 93:2 (September 2006)
• Review of David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, in Labor, 2:1 (Spring 2005): 114-116.
• Review of Thomas Ralph Clark’s Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California, 1890-1925 in Journal of Policy History 16:2 (2003).
• Review of Kenneth C. Wolensky et. al., Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania in The Journal of American History (90:1 (June 2003).
• Review of Youngsoo Bae, Labor in Retreat in Labor History 43:2 (2002), 572-573.
• Review of Howard Kimeldorf, Battling for American Labor in International Labor and Working-Class History 62 (Fall 2002).
• Non-Fiction Feature’s Writer\Book Reviewer for the Associated Press, 10 Books reviewed per year, 1998--2002.
• Review of David Stowell, Streets, Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877 in Michigan Historical Review 26:2 (Spring 2001): 184-186.
• Review of Howell Harris, Bloodless Victory in International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (2001).
• Review of Wilson Warren, Struggling with “Iowa’s Pride:” Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest Since 1877 in Labor History 42:2 (May 2001), 207-208.
• Review of Prelude to the Welfare State by Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor in Peace & Change 27:2 (April 2002).
• Review of The 1960s by Jennifer Hurley in Teaching History: A Journal of Methods XXVI: 2 (Fall 2001).
• Review of The Abandoned Ocean: A History of US Maritime Policy by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan in Journal of Policy History (2002).
• Review of Nan Enstad’s, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure in Labor History (2001), 225-227.
• Review of Clare Wightman’s More than Munitions for H-Women (May, 2000).
• Film Review of “World of Wonders,” in Labor History 39:2 (May 1998): 201-3.
• Review of Joseph McCartin’s Labor’s Great War and Andrea Tone, The Business of Benevolence in Vol. 85 Journal of American History (December 1998), 1125-1127.
• Review of Kenneth Finegold, Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago in New York History LXXIX: 1 (January 1998): 81-4.
• Review of Daniel Letwin’s The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 for H-Net (H-SHGAPE) November 1998.
• "The Past Before US: Labor Relations Policy in the 20th Century," review essay in Journal of Policy History. (Fall 1997).
• Review of William Ross, Muted Fury in Journal of Social History 29:2 (Winter, 1995), 430-435.
• Review of Irving Ritcher, Labor's Struggles in Labor History 36:2 (Spring, 1995), 307-309.
• Review of Tom Copeland, The Centralia Tragedy in Labor History 36:1 (Winter, 1995).
• Review of Clarence Wunderlin, Visions of a New Industrial Order in Labor History 35:1 (Winter, 1994), 133-134.
Current Research:
• The World in a Box: Containerization, the Global Economy, and New York City, 1945-Present. A book length project under contract at the University of Pennsylvania Press for their “Business, American Politics and Society” Series (2008).
• Business: An American History A co-authored, book length project under contract with Harlan Davidson (2009).
• 1910s: A Social Biography of a Decade. Contributed to book length project, under contract for ABC-CLIO (2008).
• “Labor Relations in the Jewish Garment District of New York,” in “A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and Industry and American Jewery,” (Texas Tech University Press, 2007). Under Contract, Accepted, and Copyedited.
• “The Political Economy of Containerization: The Port of New York/New Jersey, Since 1945,” Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History (Commissioned article, currently being written for a forthcoming special Issue of the journal, 2008).

Professional Activities:
Papers/Presentations
• “The Box and the Men: Longshoremen Confront Containerization, the Case of the NY Waterfront, 1945-1985,”presented at "The Traveling Box: Containers as the Global Icon of Our Era," a conference of the Humanities Center and the Center for Work and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, November 8-11, 2007.
• “Representing the Waterfront,” Paper presented at Organization of American Historians Conference, March 2008.
• “The Political Economy of the Port of New York,” Presented ay the North American Society for Oceanic History/National Maritime History Society Joint Conference, May 20, 2007, Kings Point, NY.
• “The Golden Age of New York City’s Garment Industry: A Historical Overview, 1860-1960,” Co-Authored Paper, presented at the CUNY Center for the Humanities/Leon Levy Foundation Conference, February 28, 2007.
• “Local Workers on the Global Stage: The Port of New York and New Jersey, 1950-1970,” presented at NYIT 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: New York City: Global Village, March 9, 2007.
• Keynote Speaker, Chubb Insurance International, “The Triangle Fire: Lessons from the Fire,” March 2007 (Part of the company’s Women’s History Month/Diversity Programming).
• Keynote and Moderator, “Italians in Madison,” Madison Historical Society, October 26, 2006.
• Chair, Commentator and Participant, Panel “Teachers and Unions,” North American Labor History Conference, October, 2006.
• “Sweatshops as American History,” Molloy College, September 20th, 2006.
• Presented paper, “The Political economy of Containerization, the Port of New York/New Jersey,” at the Annual Business History Conference, Toronto, May 2006.
• “A Century of Labor,” Keynote Speaker, Metropolitan Transit Authority Labor History Month Celebration, May 10, 2006
• “The New, Old Economy,” Molloy College, Long Island, NY, January 13, 2006
• Invited Book Talks, Fall 2005, the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, and the Brecht Forum.
• “The Garment Industry and the New York Economy, 1900-1919,” Speaker in the Humanities Program, New York Council on the Humanities, November 2004, December 2004, July 2005.
• “Sweatshops: A Roundtable,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference April 2004.
• “Sweatshop USA” presentation to be presented at Gotham Center for NYC History, CUNY December 15, 2003, Brecht Forum November 6, 2003.
• Chair and Commentator on Panels at the Social Science History Association Conference (Baltimore, November 2003) and North American Labor History Association (Detroit, October 2003).
• “Sweatshops and New York City,” Teacher Institute, Henry Street Settlement, June 3, 2003.
• “History and Stories,” Prime Time Reading, a NY Humanities Council Conference, Oneida, NY April 2003.
• “Teaching New York City History in New York City Schools,” Gotham Center Teaching Festival (NYC Elementary and Secondary Schools Teachers), May 15, 2003.
• “The Protocols of Peace and the Making of Modern American Labor Policy,” Paper at The History of Labor Relations Conference at California University of Pennsylvania, January 2002.
• “The Protocols of Peace and the Meaning of Industrial Democracy in the New York Ladies’ Garment Industry, 1910-1915,” Invited lecture/presentation at the Pittsburgh Seminar on Working-Class History at the University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2001.
• “On the Streets and at the Bargaining Table: New York Workers’ Experiment in Industrial Democracy, 1910-1915,” Invited Lecture, Gotham Center for New York City History, CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2001.
• “The Failure of Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York,” Paper Presented at Columbia University’s Faculty Seminar on Labor and Popular Struggles in the Global Economy March 26, 2000.
• “Louis Brandeis and the Making of Modern Labor Policy: The Protocols of Peace in New York’s Ladies’ Garment Industry,” 2000 Social Science History Association Conference, Pittsburgh October 2000.
• “The Domestication of Labor Policy: Labor, Gender and the State in Progressive Era New York,” 2000 American Historical Association Conference in Chicago.
• “The Origins of New Deal Labor Policies,” paper presented at the 1999 Policy History Conference Sponsored by the Journal of Policy History and St. Louis University, May 29, 1999.
• “I’d Rather Pass a Law Than Organize a Union’: Reform, Labor, and Wage-Hour Legislation in New York During the Progressive Era” presented at the 1998 Social Science History Conference, Chicago, November 1998.
• “Ethnicity and Labor Relations,” presented at the Joint meeting of 1998 Business History Conference\Jews in the City Conference at University of Maryland, College Park March 15, 1998.
• “Strikes for Rights: Garment Workers in New York, 1909-1911,” Paper presented at the 1996 New York State Historical Conference at SUNY-New Paltz June 7, 1996.
• “Robert Wagner, Labor and Workers' Political Culture: New York during the Progressive Era.” Presented at the 1995 North American Labor History Conference, Oct. 19, 1995.

Additional Professional Experience:
• Senior Series Editor, “Working in the Americas,” Book Series, University of Florida Press, 2006--.
• Associate Editor, Enterprise & Society, 2006--. (Published by Oxford University Press.)
• Editor, H-Business, 2005—2007.
• Member, Editorial Board (2004--) and Reviews Editor (2004-2006), Working USA (Published by Blackwell).
• Advisory Board Member, H-Maritime, 2005--.
• Advisor/Consultant, Leon Levy Foundation Project on Garment Industry History, 2006--.
• Member, LAWCHA Program Committee, 2007--.
• Faculty Member, NEH Summer Institution for College Faculty, “American and the Sea,” Mystic Seaport, July 2006.
• Faculty Member, Amistad Summer Institute, New Jersey Department of State Institute for NJ Teachers, Drew University, July 2006.
• Manuscript Reviewer, Temple University Press, University of Florida Press, and Labor History, and Journal of Labor Studies, 1999--.
• Advisor and Consultant to “The Italian-American Experience, New York City” a TV Documentary for IRV (Italian TV) to be shown in 2007.
• Senior Fellow, American Maritime History Project, 2004--2005.
• Academic Advisor “History First Hand,” an Educational Outreach Project to New York City School Teachers, run by a partnership between the Gotham Center, CUNY, Department of Education, New York City, and City Lore, Fall 2002—Fall 2004 (Funded through a Teaching American History, US DEP Grant).
• Expert Witness, Asian American Legal and Education Defense Fund (and two law firms) for sweatshop related federal court cases, 2004--. (Expert on Fair Labor Standards Act and garment production in historical perspective.)
• Named a “Speaker in the Humanities” by the New York Humanities Council, 2003--.
• Faculty Associate Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Globalism and Popular Struggles and the Seminar on the 20th Century, 1998--.
• Member, Tamiment Seminar in Social and Working-Class History, NYU, 2003--.
• Co-Chair, Social Science History Association’s Labor Network, 2000-2003
• Committee Member, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize (New York Navy League/ Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Theodore Roosevelt Association), 2002--2005.
• Academic Consultant, Educational Testing Service, 1993--2000.
• Faculty Coordinator at Morrisville College for 1998-99 White House Millennium Lecture Series, funded through the New York Humanities Council.
• Oral Historian at Senator Robert F. Wagner Oral History Project, at CUNY’s LaGuardia\Wagner Archives, 1993-95, May 1997-September 1997.
• Academic Consultant, Tower Productions\The History Channel for a Documentary on the Triangle Fire which aired in March 1997.
• Academic\Museum Consultant, New York City Transit Museum, 1994--1996. For the Exhibit, “Steel, Stone and Backbone,” which one the Dibner Prize for Best Exhibit from the Society for the History of Technology.

Newspapers Recently Quoted in:
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution September 15, 2006 for an article on the national economy Post-9/11 in historical perspective.
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 4, 2006 for an article on labor-management cooperation (SEIU and Nursing Home Chains in Washington State).
• Christian Science Monitor April 25, 2006 for an article on the contemporary immigration debate.

Courses Taught at Drew University:
Fall 2005: History 94: Historical Research Methods
Spring 2006: History 194: Research Seminar
BSC 101: Capstone Seminar on Consumerism and American Identity
Summer 2006: History 109: The US since WW II
History 2: US 1877-Present
Fall 2006: History 190: Jazz Age to WW II: American 1919-1945
BSC 101 Capstone Seminar: Wall Street: Wealth and Power in American Culture
Spring 2007 History 108: History of Work
BSC 101: Capstone Seminar: Critical Perspectives of Management
Fall 2007 History 190: Where We Live: Urban/Suburban History in the US
BSC 101: Capstone Seminar: Leadership in America

Service at Drew:
• Chaired and Coordinated, Presidential Initiatives Fund, 2006--.
• Faculty Advisor, Board of Visitors, 2006--.
• Member, Civic Engagement Committee, 2006--. (Co-Chair, AY 2006-2007).
• Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Dinning Services, Spring 2007.
• Member, CLA Honors Committee, AY 2006-2007.
• Attended all Open Houses for Admissions on behalf of the BSC Program
• Attended two Admission events Spring 2006 representing the BSC Program (Manhattan and Long Island).
• Presented a lecture on my current research at Alumni(ae) reunion, May 2006.
• Academic Advisor to the Board of Visitors, 2007--.
• Raised funds to underwrite the March 2006 “Women in Corporate Leadership” Conference from Ernst & Young.
• Lead Drew University’s efforts to obtain a substantial gift of services from Thomson Financial Services, Corp., to support the Wall Street Semester Program, Summer-Fall 2006.
• Member, Wall Street Semester Program Committee, 2006--.
• Member, Search Committee for Chief Communications Officer, 2005-2006.
• Member, History of Science Search Committee, 2005-2006.
• Member, Master of Teaching Committee (and member of search Committee for Director of MAT Program), 2006--.
• Keynote Speaker, CLA Honor’s Banquet, May 2006.
• Organized a BSC Lecture Series that brings in several speakers per academic year, 2006-2007.
• Organized a “Women in Corporate Leadership” Conference with Women’s Studies Program, March 2006.
Selected Grants and Fellowships:
• Presidential Initiatives Fund Grant, Drew University, Research Grant, Academic Year 2006-2007.
• Research Grant, Hagley Museum, Center for Business History, Academic Year 2006-2007.
• Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Grant, New York State Archives, Academic Year 2006-2007.
• Named, Isadore Lubin Fellow in Industrial Relations, Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Presidential Library, 1994-95.
• Named, Richard Styskal Fellow in Industrial Relations Policy, The Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY, 1990-1994.
• Graduate Fellowship, New York University, Metropolitan Studies Program, 1990-1994.

Professional Memberships:
American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Business History Conference, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the American Studies Association, Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Labor and Employment Relations Association, Urban History Association, New York Labor History Association, Society for Law and History, Social Science History Association, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Author’s Guild, and National Writers Union.