Labor Center
Labor Center Staff
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Labor Policy Specialist
Steven Pitts came to the Labor Center in August of 2001 from Houston,
Texas. Steven received his Ph.D. in economics with an emphasis on
urban economics from the University of Houston in 1994. His M.A.
is also from the University of Houston and he holds an B.A. from
Harvard University. For the 15 years prior to his arrival at the
Labor Center, Steven taught economics at the Houston Community College
and, for five years, he was an adjunct lecturer in the African American
Studies Program at the University of Houston. At the Labor Center,
Steven focuses on alternative strategies for worker organizing,
and economic development and social policy with an emphasis on labor–community
alliances.
Areas of Expertise
• African American Workers
• Alternative Strategies for Worker Organizing
• Union Leadership Development
Current Projects
Black Workers and Job Quality: A Multi-City Research Project
An investigation of the level of low-wage employment among Black workers between 1970 and 2000. The study will examine Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City as well as the nation as a whole.
C. L. Dellums African American Union Leadership School
A week-long leadership
development program specifically for African American unionists.
Recent Publications
Beyond the Mountaintop: King’s Prescription for Poverty  with William Spriggs, April 2008.
“Bad Jobs: The Overlooked Crisis in the Black Community,” New Labor Forum, Winter, 2007.
Job Quality and Black Workers: An Examination of the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, August 2007.
The Fight for Quality Jobs: Our Battle Against Neoliberalism, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Vol XIV, #1, Spring 2007.
Black Workers in the Bay Area: Employment Trends and Job Quality 1970-2000, November 2006.
Black
Workers in the Bay Area: 1970-2000: A Data Brief, with Steve Wertheim, September 5, 2005.
Organize...to
Improve the Quality of Jobs in the Black Community: A report on
jobs and activism in the African American community, May
2003.
“Community-based Organizing of Black Workers,” a paper
presented at the United Association for Labor Education National
Conference, April 2003.
“African American Intragroup Inequality and Corporate Globalization,”
with Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Patrick L. Mason, in Cecilia A. Conrad, John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart, eds., African Americans in the U.S. Economy, New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
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