Harry C. Katz

Who is Harry C. Katz?

Harry Charles Katz is the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Katz was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Northern California. He received an A.B. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, after which he taught at MIT until 1985. He then went to Cornell and was appointed dean in 2005.

His research focuses on new structures for labor-management relationships in the United States, and his work argues the need for a more cooperative system. He is an expert on labor relations in the automobile and telecommunications industries both in the U.S. and abroad, and is often invited to lecture and about those industries and about current labor-management relationships in general.

Katz is the author of several books, including Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems, and the widely used textbook An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations.

In 2012, Katz was named a Scholar Fellow by the Labor and Employment Relations Association.