About the Editors and Contributors
Ellen Mutari is a visiting scholar and assistant professor at the Labor Studies Program of Rutgers University. She has taught at the New School for Social Research and James Madison College of Michigan State University. Her research addresses the relationship between gender relations and economic restructuring, historically and contemporarily. She has published in Feminist Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, and Review of Radical Political Economics.
Heather Boushey is completing her doctorate in economics at the New School for Social Research. Her work is on labor market inequality and social policy. She has taught courses on labor economics and Marxian economic theory.
William Fraher IV works for the Washington State Department of Corrections, Division of Correctional Industries, where he performs research on current, internal, and external markets for possible business creation and/or expansion. He received his master’s degree in economics at the New School for Social Research in 1996. His main areas of interest are class and gender and how the process of globalization is affecting women around the world.
M.V. Lee Badgett is a labor economist and an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland College Park. She has also taught lesbian and gay studies at Yale University, and is currently serving as the executive director of the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies, a national think tank. Her work on sexual orientation includes studies of workplace discrimination against lesbians and gay men and studies of gay family issues. Her articles have appeared in books, magazines, and academic journals. She is currently writing a book on the economic issues of lesbians and gay men.
Teresa Brennan is the author of The Interpretation of the Flesh and History after Lacan. She has a new book called Okonomie fur die Erde (Economy for the Earth), just published in Germany. She is also the editor of Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis and Vision in Context (with Martin Jay), and general editor (with Susan James) of the Oxford Readings in Feminism series.
Margaret S. Coleman received a Ph.D. in economics from the New School in May 1996. Her current project comparing nineteenth-century poor laws in England and the United States has been awarded a research grant by the Vincentians. She is both an adjunct professor at Saint John’s University and a technician at NYNEX.
Brian Cooper is a Diamond Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research. The author of several essays and articles on the relationship between economics and literary theory, he is currently finishing work on a book called Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859.
Ann Davis is currently assistant professor of economics at Marist College and director of the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research. Davis consults with regional groups concerning economic development strategies, in addition to her research on the economics of gender. She has served on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics.
Deborah M. Figart is associate professor of economics at Richard Stockton College. Her research interests include discrimination by gender and race, poverty and low-wage labor markets, and public sector industrial relations. She has published in Feminist Economics, Industrial Relations, Work and Occupations, Review of Radical Political Economics, and other journals. Her new book (with Peggy Kahn), Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring, is published by Wayne State University Press.
David Kucera is assistant director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the New School with a dissertation titled “Labor Adjustment in Japan and the Former West Germany.” He has taught labor economics at St. Francis College. Among his publications is a paper on the effects of mass production and mass marketing on prices and wages in Japanese manufacturing, published in Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle.
June Lapidus is associate professor of economics at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Her research is on gender and labor markets, with particular emphasis on comparable worth and temporary work. She has also been a member of the Center for Popular Economics since 1983. Her work has appeared in International Contributions to Labor Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Feminist Economics, and Work and Occupations.
Marilyn Power is a faculty member in economics at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research and writing focus on inequality by race, class, and gender; the effects of public policy on women in the labor force; and the interconnecting issues of work and family. Her most recent project is on the social determination of wages for women, with particular reference to childcare workers.
Sam Rosenberg is professor of economics at Roosevelt University. He is the editor of The State and the Labor Market (Plenum Press) and is currently conducting research on labor market segmentation and low-wage labor markets in Chicago.