Joseph A. McCartin

Joseph A. McCartin is Professor of History at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. His books include LABOR'S GREAT WAR: THE STRUGGLE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE ORGINS OF MODERN AMERICAN LABOR RELATIONS, which won the 1999 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book on U.S. labor history, and COLLISION COURSE: RONALD REAGAN, THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, AND THE STRIKE THAT CHANGED AMERICA, which won the 2012 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. (Author Photo by Mara McCartin).