Richard Hurd : Biography
Richard W. Hurd is Professor of Labor Studies. A leading specialist on trade union administration and strategy, he has been quoted widely in the national print and broadcast media on various labor issues. Much of his research has focused on professional workers.
Professor Hurd works closely with labor organizations developing training programs and offering technical assistance on strategic issues, including trade union management, organizational change, internal and external organizing, strategic planning, and leadership development. His clients include the Canadian Labour congress, AFL-CIO Office of the President, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees, AFT Shanker Institute, New York State United Teachers, SEIU, UNITE-HERE, and the American Guild of Musical Artists.
Professor Hurd also has offered testimony before Congressional Committees and Presidential Commissions.
He has published dozens of papers in books and professional journals, and has co-edited three volumes published by Cornell University Press: Rekindling the Movement (2001), Beyond the Organizing Model (1998), and Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law (1994).
An economist by training, Hurd has served as an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He earned his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Beyond Labor's Brawl," Social Policy, Summer 2005 (forthcoming).
"Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation," with John Bunge, in Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century, edited by Richard Freeman, Joni Hersch and Lawrence Mishel, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.
"The Failure of Organizing, the New Unity Partnership and the Future of the Labor Movement," Working USA, September, 2004.
"The Rise and Fall of the Organizing Model in the U.S.," in Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives, edited by Mark Harcourt and Geoffrey Wood, Manchester University Press, 2004.
"Union Revitalization: Concepts and Theory," with Martin Behrens and Kerstin Hamann, in Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy, edited by Carola Frege and John Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2004.
"Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization?" with Martin Behrens and Jeremy Waddinton, in Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy, edited by Carola Frege and John Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2004.
"Public Sector Unions: Will They Thrive or Struggle to Survive?" with Sharon Pinnock, Journal of Labor Research, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring 2004.
"Structural Change as a Source of Union Revitalization," with Martin Behrens and Jeremy Waddington, WSI-Mitteilungen (Germany), September, 2003.
"In Defense of Public Service: Union Strategy in Transition," Working USA, Summer 2003.