Richard A. Greenwald, Ph.D.

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World in a Box: Containerization, the Global economy and the Port of New York Since 1945 (Under Contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press for their "Business, Politics and Society Series")

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Books

The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (Temple University Press, 2005)
A History of industrial democracy.

Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (Routledge, 2003)
Co-edited Collection of Essays on the history of the American Sweatshop.

Woven Together for Social Justice: The History of the American Needle Trades Unions
History of the garment unions in the USA

Exploring America's Past:A Reader in Social, Political and Cultural History, 1865-Present
Essays by leading historians

To Boost the Economy, Help the Self-Employed
BusinessWeek

Liberal Arts II: The Economy Requires Them

Graduate Education in the Humanities Faces a Crisis. Let's Not Waste It.

essay from The Chronicle of Higher Education

Today's Students Need Leadership Training Like Never Before

Recent Articles & Essays

"How to Succeed in the Age of Going Solo" in the Wall Street Journal Feb 8, 2010
WSJ Article on freelancing

Our Coffee, Ourselves
In These Times, Dec 2009

"Are Freelancers Small Business Owners?"
Businessweek (On-Line) August 2009

Books in Progress

he Death of 9-5: Permanent Freelancers, Empty Offices and the New Way America Works (Bloomsbury, 2012)

Labor's Day: The Past, Present & Future of Work in America (Forthcoming, The New Press)
A Co-Edited Collection of Essays by Leading Intellectuals on Work in America Under Contract with The New Press