Ron Schatz, Author

Ron Schatz

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Ron Schatz is Professor Emeritus of History at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-60 (1983), The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era (2021), and many articles, including “The Barons of Middletown and the Decline of the Northeastern Anglo-Protestant Elite,” which was published in Past & Present in 2013.

“Labor & Art” in Homestead, Pennsylvania

I am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and

by Ron Schatz
November 4, 2025