DANIEL JACOBY

6048 33rd NE

Seattle, Washington 98115

(206) 517-5716: Home (425) 352-5365: Work

e-mail: jacoby@u.washington.edu

Education

Ph.D. Economics. University of Washington; Seattle, WA; 1985.

Doctoral Thesis: Unions, Schools, and Training: Seattle 1900-1940.

Specializations: Labor, Economic History, Education.

M.A. Economics. University of Washington; Seattle, WA; 1977.

B.A. Economics. State University of New York; Binghamton, NY; 1975.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, 1996-Present

Assistant Professor, 1990-1996

Chair Vice Chair, General Faculty Organization 2001-Present

Vice Chair, General Faculty Organization, 2000-2001

Coordinator for Global studies, 1997-2000

Division Coordinator for Community College Articulation, 1997-1999

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington-Bothell.

Bothell, WA 98021

Teach economics, economic history, labor, public and education policy.

Research Associate, 1997 to 2000

Center for Educational Renewal, The Well Educated Teacher Project, UW Seattle, 98105

The project works with 16 sites nationally that are part of the Network for Educational Renewal, a Consortium of Colleges of Education and Public Schools.

 

Assistant Professor. 1988-1990

University of New England; Biddeford, ME.

Taught courses in economics, labor, and law. Coordinated a learning community involving Economics, History and English courses. Prepared feasiblity study for Teacher Education program September.

 

Visiting Assistant Professor. 1987-1989.

Wellesley College; Wellesley, MA

Taught economic history and principles courses.

 

Instructor

University of Washington; Seattle, WA 1985-1987.

Taught economic history and labor courses. September 1986 to June 1987.

Seattle Community Colleges. Spring 1983 to Winter1984.

Taught Statistics, Business Math, and Applied Economics.

Western Maryland College; 1980 to 1982.

Department of Business and Economics, Westminster, MD

Taught Principles of Economics, Economic History, Accounting and Labor Economics. Chaired College Marketing Committee.

Frostburg State College,. 1978-1980.

Department of Economics. Frostburg Maryland

Scholarship

Publications

Books:

Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America.; Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., (1998).

Articles:

"Is Washington State an Unlikely Leader, Academic Contingent Labor," Education Policy Analysis Archives. http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n41/

"Apprenticeship in the United States," On-line Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2001.

"Looking Backward on Labor in America," Working USA. January 2000.

"Plumbing the Origins of American Vocationalism" Labor History. Spring, 1996.

"Legal Foundations of Human Capital Markets," Industrial Relations. Spring, 1991.

"The Transformation of Industrial Apprenticeship in the United States," Journal of Economic History. December, 1991.

"Apprenticeship and its Political Economy," Under review Journal of Law and Society

With Priscilla Holcomb, "Training to Monopolize, Apprenticeship and New York Trade School Plumbing Graduates, 1880 to 1896." Under Revision for Social Science History.

"Authority, Democracy and the Well-Educated Teacher" Commissioned by

Center for Educational Renewal, The Well Educated Teacher Project, Nov, 2000.

Other Publications:

"Legislature Must Improve Pay for Part-time Faculty," Op-ed, Seattle Time, January 29, 2001.

Review Essay, Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory, Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning, Working USA, Winter 2000-01, pp.150-158.

Review Essay, Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories, The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. For Eh-Net and H-Net, September 2000.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/h.j.harris/RESEARCH/JACOBYrev.htm (annotated with Harris' comments)

"Review: Clark Davis, Company Men, White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941, 2:1 Enterprise and Society Review, March, 2001 (pp 191-93).

Report on the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Meeting" International Labor and Working Class History, (Spring, 2000).

"Community must support workers’ freedom to choose," Seattle Times Op-ed, June 23, 1999.

Review: Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlan, "Talking Union," Labor History, Feb. 1999.

Review: Neil W. Chamberlain, "Intellectual Odyssey, An Economists Journey," Labor History. Feb.1998.

Review Essay: David Wellman, "The Union Makes Us Strong," H-Net Review. March, 1997.

http://www.labournet.net/docks2/9907/wellman.htm

Review: Daniel Cornford, Ed. "Working People of California," Journal of Economic History. March 1997.

Review: James R. Zetka, Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority, " Journal of Economic History, Sept, 1995.

Review: August Bolino, "One Hundred Years of Human Capital by Education and Training," Journal of Economic History. June, 1990.

"Washington Center Casebook on Collaborative Teaching and Learning;" Co-edited and written with Case Writing Group of the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education; Dec. 1993.

School Profile Books, with Seattle Effective Schools Project Staff; Seattle; 1985 and 1986.

"Economics: the Realpolitik of Rights Talk," Occasional Paper, Institute on Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism, 1994.

In Progess:

Research Workgroup on Living Wages. $35,000 Ford Foundation Funding.

Grants and Awards:

Teaching Academy, University of Washington, $1000

Worthington Distinguished Professor Award, "Outcomes in Interdisciplinary Studies," $3,500, June 1999.

Tools for Transformations for 1999-2000 Applied Labor Research, with Margaret Levi and Michael Honey, $50,000 to develop applied research pilot program for labor studies.

Graduate School Fund Summer Research Grant: Summer of 1994

Washington Center Seed Grant: Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Institute, 1994. $3,000

London Teaching Fellow: Awarded for Winter 1992-93. Taught classes on British Economic History and the European Community.

Grants and Awards continued

NEH Summer Fellowship , " History in Law," Stanford (Summer, 1992)

Travel to Collections, National Endowment for the Humanities: Completed Spring 1992.

F. Leroy Hill Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University: 1987.

Academic and Professional Presentations and Service:

Legislative Presentation on Part-time Faculty, January 26, 2001

Invited Panelist, Apprenticeship, SSHA, Oct, 2001

Invited Panelist: Foreign Affairs Council, "WTO, Labor, The Environment, and Human Rights," March 16, 2000

Guest speaker, KUOW Morning Show, "Temporary Agency Disclosure Bill," January 2000

Chair, Program Planning Committee for Spring 2000 Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference.

Organizer and Presenter: Labor Rights as Human Rights Conference, Seattle, Oct. 30, 1999.

Invited Panelist on Glass Ceiling Forum for Staff Employees Industrial Union Local 925.

Presenter, "School to Work in Seattle: Then and Now," Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, May 18-30, 1999.

Presenter, Labor Education Panel, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, Vancouver, May 28-30, 1999.

Participant: AAUP symposium, Should we seek enabling legislation for Collective Bargaining? Dec. 1998.

Reviewer: FIPSE grants (Improvement of Post-Secondary Education), 1998.

Organizer: Summer Labor Film and Lecture Series, 1998

Peer Reviewer: Labor History, for Industrial Relations, and for Journal of Management Studies

Panel Organizer and presenter: "Key Moments for Apprenticeship," Social Science History Association, Fall, 1997, Washington DC

Discussant: Panel on Labor Education, North American Conference on Labor History, Oct. 1998, Detroit

Presenter: "A Conversation regarding Faculty Unions," Harry Bridges Labor Center, University of Washington, Seattle, February 26, 1996.

Co-presenter: "Using Cases to Explore Diversity" Co-Presentation with Rosemary Adang at 5th Annual Washington State Assessment Conference; May 12, 1994.

Discussant and Chair: Economic History Panel; Western Economic Association; Lake Tahoe. July 1993.

Presenter: "The Rise and Decline of the New York Trade School" Economic and Business History Association; Seattle, Spring 1992

Presenter: "Business and Education: The Prospects for Collaboration," A Panel Discussion, Job Service Employment Council, Nov. 1991.

Presenter: "Establishing an Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies Program: The University of Washington Branch Campus Experience." with Rob Crawford. Association for General and Liberal Studies; Bellevue, WA; Oct. 1991.

Presenter: "The Rise and Decline of Private Trades Schools." Western Economic Association; Seattle, WA; July 1991.

Presenter: "Compelling Choices or Choosing Compulsion: Vocational Education at the start of the Twentieth Century." Bothell Branch Campus, University of Washington, 1991.

Designer and Coordinator: Bothell Faculty Seminars on the "The Aims of Higher Education," 1991.

Presenter: "Learning Contracts: Seattle Vocational Education 1900-1940." Economic History Association Detroit, 1988.

Presenter: "Principal Roles, Student Achievement, and Other Variables." With R. Andrews and R. Soder. American Education Research Association Conference, San Francisco, 1986.

Service

First Tenure Review Board, Cascadia Community College 2001-2002

Citizen’s Rate Advisory Commission for Seattle City Light Spring and Summer 1999-2001

Member of Search Team for Vice Presidents and consultants at Cascadia Community College, Summer and Fall1998

Trustee; Pacific Northwest Labor History Society, 1998-Present

Faculty Advisor To Journal Of Public Affairs (Student Journal), 1998-99

Faculty Advisor To First Two Student Governments, 1995--97.

Faculty Advisor To First Two Volumes Of Shared Memory, (Student Literary Magazine), 1994-1996.

Northwest Labor Arts and Film Festival: May 1997: Organized labor film festival

Institute on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: (Conceived and Convened) Fall 1994.

KSER Radio Broadcasts "Old Problems, New Solutions," Don Johnson host; Five sessions in Fall and Winter 1993-94.

One Language Many Voices: Conversations about Interdisciplinary Studies: Primary Coordinator for colloquium between Northeastern Washington State community college faculty and faculty from the University of Washington, (Spring, 1992)

Tech-Prep Consortium: Bothell representative to Lake Washington Tech-Prep Consortium, Assisted in Lake Washington Vocational College's Tech Prep grant application. $200,000 Application successful 1991-92.

Colloquium on the Aims of Higher Education: Designed and facilitated this seminar for faculty to consider educational possibilities in our founding year at the Bothell Campus.