[PEN-L:2283] Re: Harvard and Unions

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Ken Hanly wrote:
>
>> Does this include Noam Chomsky?
>
>MIT keeps on people like Chomsky for the same reason Harvard maintains a
>trade union program -- to keep an eye on them.  As Michael Corleone said,
>"keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
>
>			Ellen Frank


I always thought that Harvard had a trade union program because John Dunlop
played a big part in running the War Labor Board, thought that the system
of industrial relations bargaining he played a big part in setting up then
was really cool, and was a very powerful bureaucratic player--both in his
own right and as a friend of Derek Bok's--within Harvard for most of the
half century after World War II.

At least that was the answer I was given when I asked how it was that
Harvard wound up with a trade union program...


Brad DeLong