KERR, Clark

KERR, Clark. American, b. 1911. Genres: Economics, Education, Industrial relations. Career: Stanford University, CA, acting assistant professor of labor economics, 1939-40; University of Washington, Seattle, assistant professor, associate professor, 1940-45; U.S. War Labor Board, 1942-45; University of California at Berkeley, assoc professor, director, Institute of Industrial Relations, 1945-52, professor of industrial relations, 1945-, chancellor, 1952-58, president, 1958-67, president emeritus, 1974-. Contract arbitrator for labor unions. Has served on many boards and committees. Publications: (with E.W. Bakke) Unions, Management and the Public, 1948, 3rd ed., 1967; (with others) Industrialism, and Industrial Man, 1960, 3rd ed., 1973; The Uses of the University, 1963, 5th ed., 2001; Labor and Management in Industrial Society, 1964; Marshall, Marx and Modern Times, 1969; (with others) Industrialism and Industrial Man Reconsidered, 1975; Labor Markets and Wage Determination, 1977; Education and National Development, 1979; The Future of Industrial Societies, 1983; (with M.L. Gade) The Many Lives of Academic Presidents, 1986; (with M.L. Gade) The Guardians: Boards of Trustees of American Colleges and Universities, 1989; The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980, 1991; Higher Education Cannot Escape History, 1994; Troubled Times for American Higher Education, 1994; The Gold and the Blue, vol. 1, 2001, vol. 2, 2003. EDITOR: (with P.D. Staudohar) Industrial Relations in a New Age, 1986; (with P.D. Staudohar) Economics of Labor in Industrial Society, 1986; (with P.D. Staudohar) Labor Economics and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions, 1994; Documentary Supplements to the Gold and the Blue, 2003. Died 2003.