Wesleyan portrait of Ronald  Schatz

Ronald Schatz

Professor of History, Emeritus

Center for the Humanities,

rschatz@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Wisconsin at Madison
MAA Wesleyan University
MAT Harvard University
PHD University of Pittsburgh

Ronald Schatz

My writing includes The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-60 (1983), The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era (2021), and many articles, including “The Barons of Middletown and the Decline of the Northeastern Anglo-Protestant Elite,” which was published in Past & Present in 2013.

I am working on a biography of James Caesar Petrillo, the combative president of the musicians’ union.

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Retired. Contact me via email.