death_date children birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place title order term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place president party parents successor religion article_title
2 october 2003 john barret dunlop beverly clarie dunlop thomas frederick dunlop 5 july 1914 january 31 , 1976 university of california berkeley university of california berkeley boston , massachusetts , united states united states secretary of labor 14th march 18 , 1975 dorothy webb dunlop jtdunlop.jpg john t. dunlop the the department of labor official portrait of john t. dunlop hangs in peter j. brennan placerville , california , united states gerald ford republican john w. dunlop antonia d. forni w. j. usery , jr. . presbyterian john thomas dunlop

john thomas dunlop

john thomas dunlop -lrb- july 5 , 1914october 2 , 2003 -rrb- was an american administrator and labor scholar .
dunlop was the united states secretary of labor between 1975 and 1976 .
he was director of the u.s. cost of living council from 1973 -- 1974 , chairman of the u.s.commission on the future of worker/management relations from 1993 -- 1995 and arbitrator and impartial chairman of various u.s. labor-management committees , and also member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stabilization programs .
a labor economist , dunlop received his ph.d. from the university of california berkeley in 1939 .
he taught at harvard university from 1938 until his retirement as lamont university professor in 1984 .
while at harvard , he was chairman of the economics department from 1961 -- 1966 and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences from 1969-1973 .
dunlop came to be recognized in the postwar united states as the most influential figure in the field of industrial relations .
though primarily a labor economist and later an academic dean at harvard university , dunlop carried out advisory roles in every u.s. presidential administration from franklin d. roosevelt to bill clinton .
he mediated and arbitrated disputes in a wide variety of industries and over a range of issues in the formative post-world war ii period .
he also influenced the study of industrial and labor relations with his framework of an `` industrial relations system '' that arose from his scholarly as well as applied work .
in looking back at his own legacy , dunlop regarded himself fundamentally as a problem solver with an abiding interest in the workplace .
among the numerous books dunlop wrote are `` industrial relations systems '' -lrb- 1958 , 1993 -rrb- ; `` industrialism and industrial man '' -lrb- 1960 , joint author -rrb- ; `` labor and the american community '' -lrb- 1970 , with derek c. bok -rrb- ; `` dispute resolution , negotiation and consensus building '' -lrb- 1984 -rrb- ; and `` the management of labor unions '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- .
