Eileen Appelbaum, ISA Board of Directors

Eileen Appelbaum is Senior Economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research. She was previously Professor of Economics at Temple University, Professor in the People, Management and Organisations Department of the Manchester Business School (UK), and Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University.

Her research focuses on implications of company practices for organizational effectiveness and employee outcomes. Her most recent book, Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of the U.S. Work-Family Policy, coauthored with Ruth Milkman, was published in November 2013. Her current research examines the effects of private equity ownership on managers, workers, unions and companies.

In addition to numerous articles on private equity, work organization, women and work, and labor markets, publications include the co-edited volume, Low Wage America (2003) and the coauthored books, Manufacturing Advantage (2000) and The New American Workplace (1994), which were selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. 

She has held visiting positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, the University of Manchester Business School (MBS) in the UK, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the University of South Australia, and the University of Massachusetts. She was President of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2010. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

 



Eileen Appelbaum
Senior Economist
Center for Economic Policy and Research
Washington, DC 20009


Visiting Professor in the Department of Management
University of Leicester, UK