Economics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Irving Bluestone Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000213
Overview
Irving Bluestone (January 5, 1917-November 17, 2007) was born and raised in New York City. He received his B.A. at City College of New York in 1937 and attended the University of Bern, Switzerland for one year of postgraduate studies. In 1942, he joined the UAW in New Jersy and showing promise, was moved to Detroit in 1947 by Walter Reuther to join the General Motors Department. He became Leonard Woodcock's administrative assistant in 1955 and Walter Reuther's in 1961. In 1972 he was elected...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Irving Bluestone Papers
Oliver Cromwell Cox Papers
Collection — Box Small Processed Collections, Box 16, Folder: 2-4
Identifier: UP000675
Abstract
Oliver Cromwell Cox was born on August 25, 1901 in Trinidad but came to America for his education. He obtained a degree in law from Northwestern University in 1928, but after losing the full use of his legs due to Polio, Cox continued his education rather than returning to Trinidad. In 1932 he obtained a masters from the University of Chicago in Economics, completing his thesis on workingmen's compensation. Trying to better understand the influences affecting economics, Cox returned to the...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Oliver Cromwell Cox Papers
Peter Eckstein Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001997
Abstract
Peter Eckstein has been involved with labor unions in the state of Michigan since the 1960s. Eckstein served as the research director for Michigan UAW-CAP; executive director of the Governor’s Commission on Jobs and Economic Development, where he drafted several important pieces of worker’s compensation legislation; and finally as research director of the Michigan AFL-CIO. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Economics and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Mr....
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Peter Eckstein Papers