Professor Goldfield specializes in the area of labor and American politics. An associate professor in the Department of Political Science and in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Dr. Goldfield is the author of The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1989). Other recent publications include "Public Sector Union Growth in the United States: Do the Laws Matter?" (in Flood's Public Policy and Unions), "Strike Rates and Public Policy During the 1930s" (Labor Law Journal), and "The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present" in LaCapra's The Bounds of Race: Colonial Relations in Culture and History. Professor Goldfield is currently working on a book entitled The Failure of Operation Dixie and Its Meaning for Post-World War Two American Politics. 

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