Harry C. Katz

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Harry Charles Katz (born March 11, 1951) is the Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State, and the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and his A.B. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. After teaching at MIT he came to Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1985.

Dean Katz's research has focused on new structures for labor-management relationships in the United States and his work argues the need for a more cooperative system. He is expert on labor relations in the automobile and telecommunications industries both in the US and abroad. Dean Katz is the author of several well-respected books, including Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry; The Transformation of American Industrial Relations (with T. Kochan and R. McKersie); Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems (with O. Darbishire); and the widely used textbook, An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations (with T. Kochan). A more complete list of his published books and papers can be found at the webpage of the Cornell ILR School www.ilr.cornell.edu>.