Gordon Lafer
Research Associate
Areas of expertise
Labor Law • Collective Bargaining • Union Organizing • Collective Bargaining • Job Creation Policy • Employment Training • Labor Standards in International Trade Treaties
Biography
Gordon Lafer is a political economist and is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center. He has written widely on issues of labor and employment policy, and is author of The Job Training Charade (Cornell University Press, 2002). Lafer has served as an economic policy analyst for the Office of the Mayor in New York City and has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and state legislatures. Lafer is the founding co-chair of the American Political Science Association’s Labor Project, and has taught as a visiting faculty member at the University of Massachusetts’ Union Leadership Academy and at the Universidad Latina de America in Michoacan, Mexico. In 2009-2010, Lafer took leave from his faculty position to serve as Senior Labor Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.
Education
Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, 1995
B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College, 1983
Publications by Gordon Lafer
Blog
Report
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Dec. 11, 2012 | Indiana experience offers little hope for Michigan ‘right-to-work’ law
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Feb. 7, 2012 | Right To Work: A Failed Policy: A New Hampshire update
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Jan. 3, 2012 | Working hard to make Indiana look bad: The tortured, uphill case for ‘right-to-work’
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Nov. 17, 2011 | Rehberg’s proposed riders to Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act would undercut American workers
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Sept. 15, 2011 | ‘Right to work’: The wrong answer for Michigan’s economy
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July 18, 2011 | Proposed NLRB rule changes would make workplace elections more democratic
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April 5, 2011 | ’Right-to-Work’ Wrong for New Hampshire
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Feb. 28, 2011 | Does ‘right-to-work’ create jobs? Answers from Oklahoma
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Feb. 28, 2011 | What’s wrong with ‘right-to-work’: Chamber’s numbers don’t add up
Commentary
Oct. 25, 2012 | Very unwise for employers to tell employees how to vote
Jan. 12, 2012 | What ‘right-to-work’ means for Indiana’s workers: A pay cut
May 26, 2011 | Jim DeMint’s race to the bottom