Steven Greenhouse is an American labor and workplace

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and writer. He covered labor for ''

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'' for 31 years until he left the newspaper in 2014. On December 2, 2014, he announced on

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: "Thanks All. With great ambivalence, I'm taking NYT buyout. I plan to write a book & still write lots of articles on labor & other matters". He ha
contributed as an occasional op-ed writer
to ''The New York Times'' since February 2015. He graduated from

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, the

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, and the

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. He lives in New York City. His daughter is

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, the editor of ''

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''.

Awards

*2010

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Deadline Club Award: Beat reporting for newspapers and wire services, for "World of Hurt" with N.R. Kleinfield *2010

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Award: Outstanding enterprise or investigative reporting, for "World of Hurt" with N.R. Kleinfield *2009

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for ''The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker'' *2014

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for Breaking News for "Bangladesh"

Works

"Janesville, Wisconsin"
''Granta'', January 2010
"The End of Summer Vacation"
''Slate'', June 11, 2008

''The New York Times'', April 2, 2010
''The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker''
Random House, Inc., 2009, *''The rights of teachers: the basic ACLU guide to a teacher's constitutional rights'', Bantam Books, 1984,
"Refusal to Fire Unattractive Saleswoman led to Dismissal, Suit Contends"
''Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated study'', Macmillan, 2006,
"Child Care the Perk of Tomorrow"
''A nation at work: the Heldrich guide to the American workforce'', Editors Herbert A. Schaffner, Carl E. Van Horn, Rutgers University Press, 2003, *''Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor Steven Greenhouse.'' Knopf, 2019 (416p)

References

External links

New York Times Caucus blogNew York Times Economix blog"The Big Squeeze"
''AFL-CIO''
"Steven Greenhouse"
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