Eileen Appelbaum (born June 13, 1940) is an American economist. She is the co-director of the

Center for Economic and Policy Research The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is a progressive American think tank that specializes in economic policy. Based in Washington, D.C. CEPR was co-founded by economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot in 1999. Considered a left-lea ...

and an expert in

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and

labor relations Labor relations is a field of study that can have different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. In an international context, it is a subfield of labor history that studies the human relations with regard to work in its broadest ...

. Her most recent book, ''Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street'', which she co-authored with Rosemary Batt, was a finalist for the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award in 2016. She also co-wrote, with

Ruth Milkman Ruth Milkman (born December 18, 1954) is an American sociologist of labor and labor movements. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the director of research at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

, ''Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy,'' published by Cornell University Press in 2013.

Education

Appelbaum holds a PhD in economics from the

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