John Logan is the Director of Research at the Labor Center. Previously he taught employment relations and international and comparative human resource management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History and Labor History at University of California-Davis in 2000. John is an expert in U.S. labor law as well as labor law in other industrialized countries. He has written extensively about the "union avoidance" industry in the United States and is currently completing a manuscript for a book entitled "Union Free": Employer Opposition, Public Policy and the Decline of Private-Sector Unionism in the United States. John has studied labor law reform efforts that took place during the Clinton Administration and is now examining issues related to the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act. His research has been cited extensively in Congressional hearings on labor law reform, and in December 2007, he testified before the U.S. Congress on the crisis in union recognition and collective bargaining in the United States.

Recent Publications

"Union Recognition and Collective Bargaining: How Does the United States Compare With Other Democracies?" Perspectives on Work Online Companion. Spring 2009 (Number 10).

"The End of the Road for American Labor, or a Blueprint for Union Revival?" British Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1, March 2008.

"The Clinton Administration and Labor Law: Was Comprehensive Reform Ever a Realistic Possibility?" Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 28, Fall 2007.

"Lifting the Veil on Anti-Union Campaigns: Employer and Consultant Reporting Under the LMRDA, 1959-2001." Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 15, 2007.

"The Union Avoidance Industry in the United States." British Journal of Industrial Relations, 44:4, 2006.

"Consultants, Lawyers and the Union-Free Movement in the United States Since the 1970s." Industrial Relations Journal, August 2002.