Michael D. Yates

Michael Yates "is a writer, editor, and educator. Among his books are Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: an Economist=s Travelogue (Monthly Review Press, 2007), Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Why Unions Matter (Monthly Review Press, 1998), Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs (Monthly Review Press, 1994), and Power on the Job (South End Press, 1994). He has also published more than 150 articles and reviews in a wide variety of journals, magazines, and newspapers.  His works have been translated into seventeen languages. He is currently Associate Editor of Monthly Review magazine and Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press.   He taught economics and labor relations at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown from 1969 until his retirement in 2001.  He won the Chancellor=s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984.  He taught courses for workers from 1980 until 2008, at a number of colleges, including Penn State, the University of Indiana, Cornell University, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Yates also worked in the Research Office of the United Farm Workers Union and served as a labor arbitrator with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation. Yates grew up in Ford City, Pennsylvania. He is married to Karen Korenoski of Dunlo, Pennsylvania."

His blog is http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org

Reference

 * Steve Early, "Michael Yates: On Labor, the Economy, Growing up Working Class, and Surviving the Motels of America (Review)", State of Nature, Winter 2009.