CURRICULUM VITAE
Peter Philips
Economics, Univ. of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Tel: (801) 581-7481; 585-6465; 466-3159
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S P E C I A L I Z A T I O N
Labor Economics, Collective Bargaining,
Discrimination, Wage Theory and Labor History
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I S S E R T A T I O N
"The Evolution of Industrial
Organization, Technology and Wage Structures in the California Canning
Industry"
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D U C A T I O N
Pomona College, Claremont, California, B.A.
1970; Stanford University, Stanford, California, M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1980.
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O N O R S
California State Scholar (1966-1970)
Leland Backstrand Graduating Senior Award in
Economics, Pomona College (1970)
Stanford University/Ford Foundation
Fellowship (1970-71 and (1974-1977)
University of Utah, College
of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Superior Teacher Award (1982)
University of Utah, College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, Dean's Research Fellow (1985 and 1988)
University of Utah, John R. Park Teacher's
Fellowship (1988)
University
of Utah, Lowell Bennion University Distinguished Service Professor (1992-93)
University of Utah, Presidential Teaching
Scholar (1993)
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O R K * H I S T O R Y
July 1978 to June 1980, Instructor,
July 1980 to June 1987, Assistant Professor
July, 1987 to June 1994, Associate Professor
July 1994, Professor
Economics Department,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
1a.
Published and Accepted Articles (peer reviewed):
1.
"Gender-Based
Wage Differentials in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey Manufacturing," Journal
of Economic History, May 1982, pp. 181-186.
2.
"Analytical
and Polemical Roots of Human Capital Theory," MidSouth Journal of
Economics, Spring 1982.
3.
"Industrialization,
Unionization and the Labor Market Structure in the California
Canneries," Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, April, 1985, pp. 392-407 (co-authored with Martin
Brown). Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature,
December, 1985, p. 2181.
4.
"On
the Constancy of the Racial Wage Gap in New Jersey Manufacturing 1901 to
1980," Review of Black Political
Economy, Spring 1985, pp. 71-76.
5.
"Mechanization,
Unionization and the Decline of the Piece-Rate System in the California
Canneries," Industrial
Relations, March, 1986 pp.81-91 (co-authored with Martin Brown).
6.
"The
Historical Origin of Job Ladders in the U.S. Canning Industry and Their Effects
on the Gender Division of Labor," Cambridge
Journal of Economics, June, 1986, pp. 129-45 (co-authored with
Martin Brown). Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March, 1987, p. 610.
7.
"Craft
Labor and Mechanization in Nineteenth Century American Canning," Journal of Economic History,
September, 1986, pp. 743-56 (co-authored with Martin Brown). Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March, 1987, p. 529.
8.
"Competition,
Racism and Hiring Practices Among Early California Manufacturers," Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
October, 1986 pp. 61-74 (co-authored with Martin Brown). Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, September, 1987, p. 1722.
9.
"Technological
Innovation and Payment Systems," Business
History Review, Winter 1987 pp. 564-601 (co-authored with Martin Brown).
10.
"Doubts
Regarding the Human Capital Theory of Racial Inequality," Industrial Relations, Spring, 1988
pp.251-62 (co-authored with David
Kiefer).
11.
"The
Effect of Immigration Law on Industrial Structure and Collective Bargaining in
the California Food Processing Industry", Review of Radical Political
Economics Winter, 1990 (co-authored
with Bill Segal). (A longer version of
this paper was done under a grant from the U.S. Labor Department and is
available from the Division of Immigration Research, U.S. Department of Labor.)
12.
"The
Decline of Child Labor in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Canning Industry", Business
History Review Winter 1992 Vol. 66 pp. 723-770 (co-authored with Martin
Brown and Jens Christiansen).
13.
"Construction
Safety Put at Risk", New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and
Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1995) pp. 77-83.
14.
"Women,
Technology and the Gender Division of Labor in Manufacturing,” Research in
Economic History Vol. 16, 1996 (co-authored with Jens Christiansen and Mark
Prus) pp. 103-126.
15.
"The
Effects of Unionization and State Prevailing Wage Laws on Injuries in
Construction, 1976 to 1991" (with Norman Waitzman) Abstracts of the American Public Health Association, 124th
Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 1996, New York City, entitled: Empowering the Disadvantaged, Social Justice
in Public Health, p. 407.
16.
"A
Step in the Right Direction Friedman's
New Estimates of Union Membership: The United States, 1880-1912," Historical
Methods, A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 1999, pp. 87-92.
17.
"Prevailing
Wage Regulations and School Construction Costs: Evidence from British
Columbia," (with Cihan Bilginsoy) Journal of Education Finance,
Winter 2000, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 415-432.
18.
“Making
Hay When It Rains—The Effect of Scale Economies, Seasonal and Cyclical Business
Patterns, and Prevailing Wage Regulations on School Construction Costs,” (with
Hamid Azari-Rad and Mark Prus) Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 27, No. 4, Spring 2002, pp. 997-1012.
19.
“Origin
of the Factoid—Prevailing Wage Laws Are Remnant Jim Crow Laws,” Review of
Radical Political Economics, (with Hamid Azari-Rad), September 2002, vol.
34, no 3, pp. 275-284.
20.
“Impact
of the OSHA Trench and Excavation Standard on Fatal Injury in the Construction
Industry,” Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 44,
No. 10, October 2002, pp. 902-905 with (Anthony Suruda, Brad Thomas Whitaker,
Donald Bloswitz and Richard Sesek).
21.
“Race
and Prevailing Wage Laws in Construction Industry, Comment on Thieblot,” (with
Hamid Azari-Rad) Journal of Labor Research, Vol. XXIV No. 1, Winter
2003, pp161-168.
22.
“State
Prevailing Wage Laws and School Construction Costs,” (with Hamid Azari-Rad and
Mark Prus), Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, No. 3, July 2003, pp.
445-457.
23.
“Organizational
Change and Workers' Safety in the Construction Industry: The Case of
Articulated Subcontracting and Extended Division of Labor,” (with Hamid Azari
and Wendine Thompson-Dawson), Industrial Relations Research Association
Series, Annual Research Volume,
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting, Adrienne E.
Eaton, ed., 2003, pp. 240-47.
24.
“Building
for the Rich, Broadcasting to the Poor: How the N.B.A. Responded to a Changing
Economy,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports
Economics, Panhellenic Association of Sports Economics and Managers, with
Cory Sinclair (forthcoming 2003).
25.
"Fatal
Injuries to Teenage Construction Workers in the U.S.," (with Anthony
Suruda, Dean Lillquist and Richard Sesek),
American Journal of Industrial
Medicine, Volume 44, Issue 5 (November
2003) pp. 510-14.
2. Journal Articles (not peer reviewed):
1. “Prevailing Wage Laws: Stop the Race to the Bottom,” Engineering News Record, Vol. 242, No. 25, June 28, 1999, p. 163.
2. “Mining the Motherload of Numbers: A Close Look at This Year’s Western Mechanical Conference Wage and Compensation Survey” (with Cihan Bilginsoy) Reeves Journal, Vol. 77, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 36-40.
3. "The Three (at least) Worlds of Labor Economic Theory", Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 7 (March-April 1987) (co-authored with Garth Mangum and Stephen Mangum) pp. 57-59.
3. Working Papers:
1. "Labor Market Discrimination: the Case of Rosie the Riveter," (co-authored with David Kiefer). 1989 [This paper measures the relative productivity of men and women in traditionally male jobs during World War II. It concludes that women did very well in male jobs and that post-war layoffs were discriminatory.]
2.
"Losing
Ground: Lessons from the Repeal of Nine Little Davis Bacon Acts" 1995
(with Garth Mangum, Norman Watizman and Anne Yeagle). [This paper looks at the
relationship between prevailing wage regulations in construction and
construction employment and income, safety, training].
4.
Books, Chapters in Books, Edited Volumes:
1.
Three Worlds of Labor Economics, (co-edited with Garth Mangum), M.E. Sharpe, N.Y., 1988, ISBN 0-87332-455-2 and
0-87332-456-0 (pbk), 357p.
2.
"The
Male Racial Pay Gap, 1939 to 1979: A
Neoclassical Story and Institutional Response," (co-authored with David Kiefer) in Garth Mangum and Peter
Philips, eds., Three Worlds of Labor Economics, M.E. Sharpe , N.Y., 1988, pp. 117-43.
3.
"Competition,
Racism and the Substitution of White Women for Chinese Men in
Nineteenth-Century California Manufacturing," (co-authored with Martin
Brown) in Rajani Kanth and E.K. Hunt, eds., Explorations in Political
Economy: Essays in Criticism Roman and Littlefield, 1990, pp 173-99.
4.
"Explanation
of Long-term Trends in the Racial Wage Gap," (co-authored with David
Kiefer) in Rajani Kanth and E.K. Hunt, eds.
Explorations in Political Economy: Essays in Criticism Roman and
Littlefield 1990, pp 137-150.
5.
"Small
and Large Firms and the Gender Gap in Manufacturing Wages, "(co-authored
with Susan Carter) in Katherine Abraham, ed. New Directions in Labor Markets
and Industrial Relations, M.I.T.
Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1991, pp. 213-238.
6.
"The
Transition from Outwork to Factory Production in the Lynn Boot and Shoe
Industry, 1850 to 1880,"
(co-authored with Jens Christiansen) in Sanford Jacoby, ed., Masters
to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers,
1850 to 1950, Columbia University
Press, 1991, pp 21-42.
7.
"The
Effect of the Repeal of Utah's Prevailing Wage Law on the Construction Labor
Market" (co-authored with Hamid Azari-Rad and Anne Yeagle) in Sheldon
Friedman, Richard Hurd, Ronald L.Seeber and Rudy Oswald, eds. Restoring the
Promise of American Labor Law, Cornell University ILR Press, 1994, pp.
207-21.
8.
Portable Pensions for Casual Labor Markets: Lessons from the Operating
Engineers Central Pension Fund, Quorum Books, 1995 (co-authored with Teresa
Ghilarducci, Garth Mangum and Jeff Petersen).
9.
“Samuel
Gompers,” (with Cory Sinclair) in Joel Moykr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic
History, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2002).
10.
Building Chaos: An International Comparison of the Effects of
Deregulation on the Construction, (co-edited with Gerhard Bosch) Routledge Press,
London, 2003, 240pp. index.
11. “A Tale of Two Cities: the High and Low Road to the Development of the US Construction Industry,” chapter 8 in Building Chaos: An International Comparison of the Effects of Deregulation on the Construction, (co-edited with Gerhard Bosch) Routledge Press, London, 2003, pp. 161-187.
12. “Introduction,” co-authored with Gerhard Bosch, in Building Chaos: An International Comparison of the Effects of Deregulation on the Construction, (co-edited with Gerhard Bosch) Routledge Press, London, 2003, pp. 2-23.
13.
Prevailing Wages: Maintaining Labor Standards and Improving Industry
Performance Through Regulation, co-edited with Hamid Azari-Rad and Mark Prus,
Ashgate Publishers, (forthcoming 2004).
14.
“Construction
Unions in the Midwest,” (with Mark Price) in Richard Schneirov, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Midwest, Indiana University Press, 2004, (see http://www.allmidwest.org/about.html
).
5.
Book Reviews:
1.
"Review
of American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1965” by Robert H. Zeiger in
the Journal of Economic History, December, 1987.
2.
"Review
of Canning Women, Cannery Lives:
Mexican Women Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry,
1930-1950” by Vicki Ruiz, in the Journal of Economic History, March
1989.
3.
"Review
of Canning Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950” by Vicki Ruiz in Business
History Review March 1989. (These two reviews were separately invited and
are distinct.)
4.
"Review
of The Economic Pursuit of Quality” by Thomas Michael Power in the Journal
of Economic Literature Vol. XXVII No. 3, September 1989.
5.
"Review
of Manufacturing Inequality, Gender Division in the French and British
Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939” by Laura Lee Downs in the Journal of
Economic Literature Vol. XXXV, No. 1, March, 1997.
8.
Journal Identifications:
Abstracts of the American Public Health Association, presents abstracts of
papers presented at the American Public Health Association Meetings.
American Journal of
Industrial Medicine, American Journal of Industrial Medicine considers for publication
reports of original research, review articles, instructive case reports, and analyses
of policy in the fields of occupational and environmental health and safety.
The goals of the journal are to advance and disseminate knowledge, promote
research and foster the prevention of disease and injury.
Business
History Review,
first issued in 1926, is published by Harvard Business School.
Challenge:
The Magazine of Economic Affairs, first issued in 1958, is a major periodical read
by economists dealing with current policy questions.
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, first issued in 1976, is published by the Economics Department,
Cambridge University.
Engineering
News Record,
first issued in 1874, published by McGraw-Hill, is the oldest industry
publication specializing on the construction industry.
Journal
of Economic Literature, published by the American Economics Association, the JEL is the standard source of book
reviews for the economics profession.
Journal of Education Finance, first issued in 1974, the JEF is published by the Association of School Business Officials,
International.
Journal of Labor Research, sponsored by the Olin
Foundation and published by George Mason University.
Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine. Journal of the American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (1916), the JOEM publishes in-depth, clinically
oriented research articles and technical reports on environmentally-induced conditions and work-related injuries and
illnesses.
Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary
History,
first issued in 1967 and published by
the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, reaches an international audience
of historians and other social scientists concerned with interdisciplinary
approaches to new data sources and practical discussions of computer and statistical
methodology, data collection and sampling procedures.
Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, first issued in 1947, is published by Cornell University and the New
York School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Industrial
Relations,
first issued in 1961, is published by the Economics Department and the
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California at Berkeley.
Industrial Relations Research Association Series is the research publications of the Industrial Relations Research Association which was founded in 1947 and encompasses more than 4,000 members in the areas of Labor and management relations, Academic research and education, Labor and employment law, Human resources, Public policy, Union administration, Training and development, Dispute resolution, Compensation and benefits, Labor markets and economics.
Midsouth
Journal of Economics, first issued in 1975, is published by the Midsouth Association of
Economics.
New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health
Policy first issued in 1989, is a policy oriented journal dealing with
environmental and occupational health issues.
Reeves Journal, first issued in 1920, is an industry publication dealing
with issued of concern to mechanical contractors in the construction industry.
Review
of Black Political Economy, first issued in 1972, is published by the National Economics
Association and the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy.
Research
in Economic History, first issued in 1978, this annual publication publishes longer papers
in economic history.
Review
of Radical Political Economics, first published in 1969, is the leading
"radical" journal in economics in the U.S.