Sanford M. Jacoby

Professor

Professor Jacoby received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1981. He recently finished a book (*Modern Manors*) on the reconstruction of welfare capitalism in the 1940s and 1950s, based on case studies of several large nonunion companies. The book relates the process by which an astute and politically active group of employers modernized welfare capitalism in the face of challenges from an invigorated labor movement and an expanded welfare state. Other research projects include a comparative study of welfare states (how advanced industrial societies have apportioned responsibility for old-age and health insurance between individuals, corporations, and the state) and a study of twentieth-century fads -- in management, advertising, and other realms.

Jacoby also holds appointments in UCLA's Anderson School of Management and in the School of Public Policy & Social Research, and is associate director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations. He serves on the editorial boards of Labor History, Industrial Relations, and Work & Occupations.

Selected publications:

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
(Princeton University Press, 2005).

Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century
(Erlbaum, 2004).

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal (Princeton University Press, 1997).

The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy, ed., New York, (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers, ed., New York,
(Columbia University Press, 1991).

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