Profile Major Works Resources

Leo Wolman, 1890-1961.

Influential American Institutionalist labor economist, prominent expert on trade unions, and sat on several union boards. 

Leo Wolman received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1913.  He became one of the earliest faculty members at the New School for Social Research, joining in 1919.  Wolman became professor of economics at Columbia in 1931. 

Wolman was part of the research staff of the NBER from the 1920s, authoring several NBER studies on labor unions.  Wolman served on various boards of the NRA during the New Deal.

 

  

top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Major Works of Leo Wolman

  • The Boycott in American Trade Unions, 1916. 
  • "Collective Bargaining in the Glass Bottle Industry", 1916, AER
  • "The Theory of Production", 1921, AER
  • The Growth of American Trade Unions 1880-1923, 1924 [nber]
  • "Consumption and the Standard of Living" and "Labor", 1929, in E.E. Hunt, editor, Recent Economic Changes in the United States, p.13 [nber, loc], p.425 [nber, loc]
  • Planning and Control of Public Works, 1930 [nber]
  • "Labor Groups in the Social Structure", with G. Peck, 1933, in Mitchell, editor, Recent social trends in the United States. [nber, loc]
  • "Machinery and Unemployment", 1933, The Nation
  • Ebb and Flow in Trade Unionism, 1936. [nber]
  • "The Recovery in Wages and Employment", 1936, NBER Bulletin (Dec), [nber]
  • "Union Membership in Great Britain and the United States", 1937, NBER Bulletin (Dec) [nber]

 
HET

 
top1.gif (924 bytes)Top

Resources on  Leo Wolman

 

 
top1.gif (924 bytes)Top
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All rights reserved, Gonçalo L. Fonseca