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Joseph A. McCartin
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Joseph A. McCartin is a professor of History at Georgetown University, where he has taught since 1999. His research focuses on labor organization, politics, and public policy. His first book, Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations (1998), won the 1999 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. His recent book examining the origins and implications of the 1981 air traffic controllers’ strike, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (2011), won the 2012 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book on Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. His current research explores public sector labor relations. He is a member of the steering committee of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, the editorial committee of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and he serves on the boards of Interfaith Worker Justice and DC Jobs with Justice.
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