James A. Gross (born 1933) is an American educator and historian who teaches United States labor law and labor history at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.[1] He is the author of a highly regarded three-volume history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and is considered the leading historian of the NLRB.[2]
James A. Gross | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1933 (age 90–91) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | BS, La Salle University; MA, Temple University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Years active | 1960–present |
Career edit
James Gross was born in 1933 and raised near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3] He played baseball as a youth, and for many years pursued a career as a major league ball player.[3] He graduated from La Salle University with a Bachelor of Science in 1956.[3][4][5]
He entered the United States Army after college.[3] But after only a short time on active duty he left the military and enrolled at Temple University, where he received a Master of Arts in 1957.[3][4][5] Although he still wanted to play professional baseball, at the urging of friends he enrolled in the graduate doctoral program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3] Dissatisfied with the degree program, he decided to leave and take a job with the Continental Can Company in New York City.[3] But the university offered him a teaching assistant position, and he stayed in school.[3] Although he almost left again, he was asked to teach a class (which gave him more money to live on) and discovered that he very much enjoyed teaching.[3] Gross received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1962.[3][4][5]
Gross taught as an assistant professor at Holy Cross College from 1960 to 1966 before joining the faculty at Cornell.[3] He was named an associate professor in 1968 and a full professor in 1975.
His three-volume history[6] of the National Labor Relations Board has been called "authoritative"[7] and "exhaustive".[8] The second volume in the trilogy, The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947, won the prestigious Philip Taft Labor History Book Award in 1983.[9]
Memberships and awards edit
Gross is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association, and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.[3][4] He has also worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.[2][3][10]
Gross is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,[11] and in 2007 was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at McGill University in Canada.
Footnotes edit
- ^ Law, A Guide to Sources of Information on the National Labor Relations Board, 2002, p. 3.
- ^ a b Compa, "Trade Unions and Human Rights," in Bringing Human Rights Home, 2008, p. 244.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Faculty Profile: James Gross," ILR Connections, Winter 2002.
- ^ a b c d Gross, Workers' Rights As Human Rights, 2006, p. 261.
- ^ a b c Colosi, Proceedings of Two Seminars Sponsored by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 1968, p. 81.
- ^ Gross, James A. The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law, 1933-1937. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1974; Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981; Gross, James A. Broken Promise: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
- ^ Hodges, "The Real Norma Rae," in Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, 1997, p. 270.
- ^ Johnson, Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950, 1988, p. 314.
- ^ Miller, McGinnis, and Julian, "Appendix A : Time Line, Events, Incidents, and Items of Note," in The ILR School at Fifty: Voices of the Faculty, Alumni & Friends, 1996, p. 239.
- ^ Hornby, "WHA-t Is Event's Status?", Toronto Sun, April 26, 2005.
- ^ Gross, Broken Promise: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994, 1996, p. xv.
Bibliography edit
- Colosi, Thomas R. Proceedings of Two Seminars Sponsored by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Jamestown, N.Y.: Jamestown Community College Press, 1968.
- Compa, Lance. "Trade Unions and Human Rights." In Bringing Human Rights Home. Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis, eds., Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008.
- "Faculty Profile: James Gross." ILR Connections. Winter 2002. Accessed 2010-11-17.
- Gross, James A. Rights, Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes Under the National Labor Relations Act. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2017.
- Gross, James A. Broken Promise: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1996.
- Gross, James A., ed. Workers' Rights As Human Rights. Albany, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2006.
- Hodges, James A. "The Real Norma Rae." In Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995. Robert H. Zieger, ed. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
- Hornby, Lance. "WHA-t Is Event's Status?" Toronto Sun. April 26, 2005.
- Johnson, Christopher H. Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.
- Law, Gordon T., ed. A Guide to Sources of Information on the National Labor Relations Board. Florence, Ky.: Routledge, 2002.
- Miller, J. Gormly; McGinnis, Boodie N.; and Julian, Robert R. "Appendix A : Time Line, Events, Incidents, and Items of Note." In The ILR School at Fifty: Voices of the Faculty, Alumni & Friends. Paper 14. 1996. Accessed 2010-11-17.