Richard A. Greenwald, Ph.D.

Richard Greenwald, PhD, a professor of history and social sciences, is Dean at St. Joseph's College in New York. He was until recently, professor of history, Dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Director of University Partnerships, and was the Founding Director of the Business, Society & Culture Program at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Trained as a social historian of modern America, Richard's scholarly interests are 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 Death of 9-5: Permanent Freelancers, Empty Offices and the New Way America Works (Bloomsbury, 2013); and two book-length projects with Daniel Katz, a co-edited collection on the future of work in America entitled Labor Rising: The Past and Future of American Workers (2012) and a co-authored history of the needle unions, entitled Woven Together for Justice (supported by a grant for the Hillman Foundation), both under contract with The New Press. 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 boards for the journals Working USA & Labor History and In These Times. Richard was until recently 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, Bookforum, Businessweek Online, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, and The Wall Street Journal among other place.

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. He lives with his wife Debbie and their two children in Queens.



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