Friday, November 1 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 114
Organizing the Professions

Chair: Gregory Wood, Frostburg State University

1. Occupational Licensing, Immigrant Location Choice, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Refugee Physicians to U.S. States in the 1930sKihwan Bae, West Virginia University; Edward Timmons, West Virginia University.

2. The Limits of the Law: The Rise and Collapse of the Hospital Unionization Wave of the 1970sPablo Gaston, University of Michigan.

3. The Effect of a Woman-Friendly Occupation on Employment: U.S. Postmasters Before World War IISophie Li, Boston University.

4. Worker Insurgency, Civil Rights and the Emergence of Public-Sector Unionism: The Growth of AFSCME in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit, 1960–1970Joseph van der Naald, CUNY Graduate Center.

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