My research focuses on international trade and labor politics. My first book on these topics, From Conflict to Coalition (Cambridge University Press, 2016), was a finalist for the Greenstone Book Prize. My second book, Opening Up By Cracking Down (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and my related article in International Studies Quarterly won the Dorothy Day Award.
Since the pandemic, I have also led an interdisciplinary research team that studies how labor unions improve workplace safety. We have published several studies in Health Affairs, including two that found that unionized nursing homes had lower resident COVID-19 mortality rates and lower worker COVID-19 infection rates.
Publications
Books:
From Conflict to Coalition: Profit-Sharing Institutions and the Political Economy of Trade. Cambridge University Press: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions (September 2016).
Opening Up By Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Democracies. Cambridge University Press: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions (October 2022).
Articles:
"The Effect Of Labor Unions On Nursing Home Compliance With OSHA’s Workplace Injury And Illness Reporting Requirement,'' with Jamie McCallum, Atheendar Venkataramani, and David Michaels. Health Affairs, 42:9 (September 2023).
"Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries," International Studies Quarterly (September 2022).
"Resident Mortality And Worker Infection Rates From COVID-19 Lower In Union Versus Nonunion US Nursing Homes, 2020-21," with Jamie McCallum, Simeon Kimmel, and Atheendar Venkataramani. Health Affairs, 41:5 (May 2022), 751-759.
"Rewarded by Friends and Punished by Enemies: The CIO and the Taft-Hartley Act," with Jonathan Obert. LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, (September 2021).
"School Districts Are More Likely to Adopt Mask Mandates When Teachers Are Unionized," with Jamie McCallum, Simeon Kimmel, and Atheendar Venkataramani. Health Affairs, 40:8 (August 2021), 1270-1276.
"Mortality Rates from COVID-19 are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes," with Atheendar Venkataramani and Simeon Kimmel. Health Affairs, 39:11 (November 2020).
“Shocked Into Service: How Free Trade Increases U.S. Military Enlistment in Southern Counties,” with Jonathan Obert. International Interactions, 46:1 (January 2020), 51-81.
"Free Trade and Opioid Overdose Death in the United States," with Simeon Kimmel. Social Science & Medicine - Population Health, 8 (August 2019), 100409.
"NAFTA's Army: Free Trade and U.S. Military Enlistment," International Studies Quarterly, 62:4 (December 2018), 845-856.
"Power Over Profits: The Political Economy of Workers and Wages," Politics & Society 43:3 (September 2015), 333-360.
"The Gilded Wage: Profit Sharing Institutions and the Political Economy of Trade," International Studies Quarterly 59:2 (June 2015), 316-329.