Richard A. Greenwald, PhD

Richard Greenwald, PhD, is Dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Professor of History, and was the Founding Director of the Business, Society & Culture Program (2005-2009) at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Trained as a social historian of modern America, Richard's scholarly interests are in political economy, particularly the intersection of the workplace, business and American politics. He is the author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (2005), co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective ( 2003), and editor of Exploring America's Past: essays in Social and Cultural History (1996). His current projects include: The World in a Box: Containerization, the Port of New York and the Postwar Global Economy (under contract with The University of Pennsylvania Press), a co-edited collection on work (under contract with The New Press), and The Gig Economy: How We Went from Traditional 9-5 Jobs to a Nation of Freelancers. He has served as Associate Editor for the scholarly journals Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History and Labor History and is a member of the editorial board for the journals Working and USA Labor History. Richard is the senior editor of the book series “Work in the Americas,” published by University Press of Florida. He blogs on workplace issues for In These Times and his essays and articles have appeared in In These Times, The Progressive, Businessweek Online, and The Wall Street Journal.


Richard was born in NYC, graduated with a BA from Queens College, City University of New York and received his Ph.D. in History from New York University. Richard, his wife Debbie and two children live in Queens.



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