John Thomas Dunlop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Thomas Dunlop

American politician

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1914

Place of Birth: Placerville, California, United States

Date of Death: 02-Oct-2003

Profession: economist, university teacher, administrator of the government

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Thomas Dunlop

  • John Thomas Dunlop (July 5, 1914 – October 2, 2003) was an American administrator and labor scholar. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976.
  • He was Director of the U.S.
  • Cost of Living Council from 1973–1974, Chairman of the U.S.Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations from 1993–1995 and arbitrator and impartial chairman of various U.S.
  • labor-management committees, and also member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stabilization programs. A labor economist, Dunlop received his Ph.D.
  • from the University of California Berkeley in 1939.
  • He taught at Harvard University from 1938 until his retirement as Lamont University Professor in 1984.
  • While at Harvard, he was Chairman of the Economics Department from 1961–1966 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1969-1973. Dunlop came to be recognized in the postwar United States as the most influential figure in the field of industrial relations.
  • Though primarily a labor economist and later an academic dean at Harvard University, Dunlop carried out advisory roles in every U.S.
  • Presidential Administration from Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.
  • He mediated and arbitrated disputes in a wide variety of industries and over a range of issues in the formative post-World War II period.
  • He also influenced the study of industrial and labor relations with his framework of an "industrial relations system" that arose from his scholarly as well as applied work.
  • In looking back at his own legacy, Dunlop regarded himself fundamentally as a problem solver with an abiding interest in the workplace. Among the numerous books Dunlop wrote are Industrial Relations Systems (1958, 1993); Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960, joint author); Labor and the American Community (1970, with Derek C.
  • Bok); Dispute Resolution, Negotiation and Consensus Building (1984); and The Management of Labor Unions (1990).

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