CURRICULUM VITAE Michael G. Hillard OFFICE ADDRESS HOME ADDRESS Department of Economics 59 Longfellow Street University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 04103 P.O. Box 9300 (207) 780-6409 Portland, ME 04104-9300 (207) 780-4416 DATE OF BIRTH: November 14, 1958 EDUCATION: University of Massachusetts- Amherst. B.A. (Social Thought and Political Economy), 1980 University of Massachusetts- Amherst M.S. (Economics), 1986 University of Massachusetts- Amherst Ph.D. (Economics), 1988 Dissertation: The Political Economy of Invention, Research and Development, and the Industrial Enterprise. RESEARCH/TEACHING FIELDS : Labor Economics/Industrial Relations U.S. Labor and Working Class History Macroeconomics Political Economy ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT University of Southern Maine Professor, 2002-present. Associate Professor, 1993-2002 Assistant Professor, 1986-1993 Wellesley College Instructor, 1986 University of Massachusetts Instructor/Teaching Assistant, 1980-1985 HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Massachusetts, 1980 Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of Southern Maine, 1989, 1991 Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Southern Maine, 1991 1
Excellence in Community Service, University of Southern Maine, 1999 2004 Radio News Award, First Place, Public Affairs, Maine Association of Broadcasters, for Remembering Mother Warren 2004 Labor History Essay Award (Best Article, U.S. Topic) 2004 Best Papers Competition Winner, 2004 Industrial Relations Research Association Meetings USM Trustee Professorship, 2011-2012 PUBLICATIONS Book Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization. Jonathan P. Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard, editors. (New York, NY: Routledge Press, 2009) Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters Class Agency and the New Deal Order. (Co-authored with Richard McIntyre). Review of Radical Political Economics. Volume 45, No. 2 (Forthcoming, 2013). The End of Labor-Management Cooperation as We Know It: A Political and Methodological Reset for the Industrial Relations Tradition. Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas. (9):55-60, 2012. Invited lead essay for Roundtable entitled Industrial Relations Comes Out Swinging 1 How industrial policy could have saved America, and why we didn t get one? Labor History. 52(3):327-331, 2011. Marxian and Institutional Industrial Relations in the United States. Chapter 6, pp. 1-12 in Section I: Scope and Methodology of Economics in R. Free, editor. 21 st Century Economics: A Reference Book. (Sage Press, 2010) The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to Rebuild the Labor Movement. (With Richard McIntyre) Pp. 2-18-238 n G. Cassano, editor, Class Struggle on The Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household. (MacMillan, 2010). Introduction, (with Jonathan Goldstein). Pp. 1-23. In J. Goldstein and M. Hillard, editors. Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx, and Globalization. (Routledge Press, 2009) 1 I was also editor for this exchange, which included contributions by Thomas Kochan (Massachusetts Institute for Technology), Rosemary Batt (Cornell University) and Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island) 2
Historically Contingent, Institutionally Specific: Class Struggles and American Employer Exceptionalism in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization. (With Richard McIntyre). Pp. 189-199 in Goldstein and Hillard, eds. Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx, and Globalization. (Routledge Press, 2009) A Radical Critique and Alternative to U.S. Industrial Relations Theory and Practice. With Richard McIntyre. Pp. 113-142 in Fred S. Lee and Jon Bekkan, editors, Radical Economics And The Labor Movement. (New York: Routledge Press, 2009). IR Experts and the New Deal State: The Diary of A Defeated Subsumed Class. (With Richard McIntyre). Critical Sociology. 35(3):417-429, 2009. Cutting Off the Canadians: Nativism and the Fate of the Maine Woodman's Association, 1970-1981." with Jonathan Goldstein. Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas. 5(3):67-89, 2008. The Limited Capital Labor Accord : May it Rest in Peace? (With Richard McIntyre) (2008) Review of Radical Political Economics. 40:1 244-249, 2008. Taking the High Road Only to Arrive at the Low Road: The Creation of a Reserve Army of Petty Capitalists in the North Maine Woods. With Jonathan Goldstein. Review of Radical Political Economics. 40(4):479-509, 2008. The Failure of Labor Management Cooperation at Two Maine Paper Mills: A Case Study, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations 14:127-171, 2005. Winner, Best Papers Competition, 2004 Industrial Relations Research Association Meetings. Labor at Mother Warren : Paternalism, Welfarism, and Dissent at S.D. Warren, Labor History 45:1 (2004) 37-60. 2004 Labor History Essay Prize Best Essay, U.S. Topic. The Crises of Industrial Relations as an Academic Discipline in the United States with Richard McIntyre. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. 7:75-98, 1999. Book Reviews Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Practices in Early American Industry. By Bruce Kaufman. Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas. 8(1):133-135 (Spring 2011). Are Workers Rights Human Rights? by Richard McIntyre. Labor Studies Journal 35(1):138-139 (March 2010) 3
Scholarly Work-In-Progress The Rise and Fall of the Paper Plantation: A Labor and Economic History of Maine s Paper Industry. book manuscript. Note: the following three papers are drafts of the final chapters of the book: From Enterprise to Assets: Financialization and the Destruction of American Manufacturing (co-authored with Richard McIntyre; to be presented as part of Understanding the Re-Rise of American Finance and Merchant Capitalism: Studying Its Impacts on Labor and the Neoliberal Era, Symposium, Labor and Employment Relations Association Meetings on the panel) Men, Women and Children: Remembering the 1971 Fraser Strike. (August 2012 23,000 word manuscript) Conflict and Accommodation at S.D. Warren: Space, Memory, and Workers Response to Decline at a Maine Paper Mill. (June 2005 39 page manuscript) Review of Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, The Right and Labor In America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 Invited review for Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas Monographs, Proceedings and Reports Capital s War of Position and the Destruction of the New Deal. Labor and Employment Relations Association: Proceedings of the 63 rd Annual Meeting. 2012 http://www.leraweb.org/sites/leraweb.org/files/publications/proceedings/ Proceed2011.pdf The Industrial Relations Literature on Union Election Campaigns, the Impact of Widespread Employer Intimidation, and Why the Employee Free Choice Act is an Effective and Needed Remedy for a Failed Industrial Democracy System. Policy memorandum presented Senator Snowe, June 2009. Welfarism or Paternalism: Making Sense of S.D. Warren s Path in Its Non-Union Era, 1854-1967, Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting. 59-66, 2003. Instability and the Failure of Labor-Management Cooperation at S.D. Warren. Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting. 77-85, 2002. 4
Keeping Maine s Workforce Skilled in a Changing Economy, in Maine Choices: 1999, A Preview of State Budget Issues. 65-89. Augusta: Maine Center for Economic Policy. 1998. Taking the High Road: Human Resources and Sustainable Rural Development in Maine, with David Vail, 1-119. Augusta: Maine Center for Economic Policy. 1997. Other Publications Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act, Maine Sunday Telegram (Insight Section), September 20, 2009. Maine Senators Should Support the Employee Free Choice Act, (with David Vail), July 28, 2009. "Maine workers face a new millenium with uncertainty," Lewiston Sun Journal, November 14, 1999. Rural Development Strategy: 1990s Contexts and Constraints, with David Vail. Maine Policy Review 5:2 (1996):61-70. 5