| Irving Bernstein Born: 15-Nov-1916
Birthplace: Ellenville, NY
Died: 25-Sep-2001
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Labor historian Wife: Fredrika (m. 1941, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Deborah Weir
Son: Jonathan Bernstein
Daughter: Judith Bernstein
University: BA, University of Rochester (1937)
University: MA, Harvard University (1940)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1948)
Professor: Industrial Relations, University of California at Los Angeles (1948-60)
Professor: Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles (1960-87)
OSS Agent Swedish Language Specialist
US Official Hearing Officer, National War Labor Board (1942-43)
US Official Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics (1941-42)
Brookings Institution Fellow (1941)
Industrial Relations Research Association President (1976)
National Academy of Arbitrators
Jewish Ancestry
Lithuanian Ancestry
Author of books:
The New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy (1950, history)
Hollywood at the Crossroads: An Economic Study of the Motion Picture Industry (1957, economics)
The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 (1960, history)
Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1969, history)
A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1985, history)
Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier (1991, biography)
Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1996, biography)
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