Charles Heckscher (born October 2, 1949) is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

, and director of the Center for Workplace Transformation at Rutgers.Heckscher's curriculum vitae
.

Early life

Heckscher was born October 2, 1949. He is the son of

August Heckscher II August Heckscher II (September 16, 1913 – April 5, 1997) was an American public intellectual and author whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Woodrow Wilson. Early life Heckscher was born in Huntington ...

, the former Parks Commissioner of New York City, and Claude ( née Chevreux) Heckscher. He is also the grandson of

Gustave Maurice Heckscher Gustave Maurice Heckscher (May 15, 1884 – June 11, 1967), was a pioneer aviator with seaplanes. and later a real estate developer in California. Early life Heckscher was born on May 15, 1884, in Philadelphia. He was the son of Anna (née At ...

, a pioneer aviator with seaplanes and real estate developer, and the great-grandson of August Heckscher, a German-born American capitalist and philanthropist. Heckscher received his

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

(1971),

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

in teaching (1971),

(1974), and

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(1981), all from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

Career

After working as a research economist for the

Communications Workers of America The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 l ...

, he took a faculty position at Harvard in 1986, leaving in 1992 to join Rutgers, where he was department chair from 1992 to 1998. His research concerns collaborative work, organizational change, and the future of organized labor. Heckscher writes op-ed pieces, as well as non-fiction books, including ''The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation'' and ''Trust in a Complex World: Enriching Community'', published in 2015, which received the 2016 George R. Terry Book Award.

References

External links

Heckscher's web site
(archived, February 17, 2012) *

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