Victor Devinatz
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Dr. Victor G. Devinatz is Distinguished Professor of Management and the Hobart and Marian Gardner Hinderliter Endowed Professor (2014-2015) in the Department of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University where he teaches courses in labor relations, human resource management and conflict management/dispute resolution. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in qualitative research in a wide variety of labor relations and employment relations topics where he utilizes ethnographic, oral history and archival research methodologies.
In 2003, Dr. Devinatz was a recipient of a Merl E. Reed Research Fellowship in Southern Labor History. In addition, in 2005, Dr. Devinatz won the Illinois State University Outstanding Researcher Award. In 2004 and 1999, he was named a Caterpillar Faculty Scholar; he received the College of Business Research Award in 2010, 2003 and 1997 and was the recipient of a University Research Initiative Award in 1994.
In a widely distributed Associated Press article in March 1999, Dr. Devinatz’s scholarly book, High-Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor (Michigan State University Press, 1999), was recognized as the first industrial ethnography to chronicle assembly work in a high-tech environment, specifically that of a low-wage medical electronics factory. In addition, Dr. Devinatz has published (or are forthcoming) over 125 journal articles, chapters in edited volumes and essays in specialized encyclopedias. In academic journals, he has published 90 articles in outlets such as Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Labour/Le Travail, Labor History, Industrial Relations, Science & Society, Journal of Labor Research, Labor Studies Journal, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, and Labor Law Journal, among others. Dr. Devinatz’s articles also have appeared in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society; The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, and Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004, among other scholarly encyclopedias. He also has published op-ed articles that have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Dr. Devinatz’s comments concerning current labor relations issues have been cited in articles in a number of international and national news publications including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Asia Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, USA Today, the Bureau of National Affairs Daily Labor Report, Bureau of National Affairs Employment Discrimination Report, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He currently is the Editor of Labor Studies Journal as well as the Editor of the Perspectives Section in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. Dr. Devinatz currently writes a periodic labor column for StreetWise, a Chicago-based newspaper. Two of his StreetWise articles, “Why We Need Unemployed Man Now More Than Ever” and “The Sharing Economy and Its Discontents,” have been picked up by the International Network of Street Papers. In 2015, Dr. Devinatz became a certified mediator through the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago.
Current Courses
MGT 498.001 Professional Practice: Intern/Coop Ed In Management
MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship In Management
MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship/Cooperative Education In Business Administration
MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Coop Ed In Business Administration
MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Cooperative Ed In Management
MGT 324.001 Industrial Relations Management
MGT 498.001 Professional Practice: Intern/Coop Ed In Management
MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship In Management
MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship/Cooperative Education In Business Administration
MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Coop Ed In Business Administration
MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Cooperative Ed In Management
PhD Industrial Relations
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
MS Labor Studies
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
MA Physical Education
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Other Physical Education
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Grants and Contracts
A Theory of CIO Shop Floor Unionism: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941-1981
Victor G Devinatz.
Illinois State University. 1993 - 1993
Political Radicalism in the American Trade Union Movement from 1930 - 1955
Victor G Devinatz.
Carlson School of Management Honors. 1990 - 1990
Doctoral Dissertation Research at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
Victor G Devinatz.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. 1989 - 1989
Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant
Victor G Devinatz.
University of Minnesota Graduate School. 1989 - 1989
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations Center. 1989 - 1989
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations Center. 1988 - 1988
The Effect on Collective Bargaining of the Partial Sale of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway to Blackstone Capital Partners L.P.
Victor G Devinatz.
Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Engineers. 1988 - 1988
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations Center. 1987 - 1987
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations Center. 1986 - 1986
Book Review
Book Review of Immanuel Ness, Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labor Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries
Victor G Devinatz.
(2024), 49, 272-274, DOI: 10.1177/0160449X241285314, Labor Studies Journal,
Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management
Victor G Devinatz.
(2023), Administrative Science Quarterly
Book, Authored
High Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor
Victor G Devinatz.
(1999), Michigan State University Press
Book, Chapter
The Role of Labor Education in Revaluing Workers: Historical, Current and Future
Victor G Devinatz.
(2021), 179-198, 2021 Labor and Employment Relations Association Research Volume, Cornell University Press
Alliance for Labor Action
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, Oxford University Press
Change to Win Federation
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, Oxford University Press
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, Oxford University Press
Living Wage
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, Oxford University Press
Right to Work Laws
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, Oxford University Press
Trade Union Educational League-Trade Union Unity League
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, Oxford University Press
World Federation of Trade Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
(2013), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, Oxford University Press
Gender Integration of Work Force Since WWII
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), 470-471, Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present, ABC-CLIO Press
Industrial Safety and Labor
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), 478-479, Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present, ABC-CLIO Press
Industrial Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), 707-708, Encyclopedia of World History, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914, ABC-CLIO Press
Sweatshops
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present, ABC-CLIO Press
Trade Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), 705-706, Encyclopedia of World History, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914, ABC-CLIO Press
U.S. Labor Unions, Post-Industrial Era
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present, ABC-CLIO Press
Unionism
Victor G Devinatz.
(2011), 152-153, Encyclopedia of World History, Era 8: Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945, ABC-CLIO Press
Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934
Victor G Devinatz.
(2009), 166-173, The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, M.E. Sharpe
Anarchism
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 102-105, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class, Routledge
Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 206-208, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Routledge
Communist Party, USA
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 371-372, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage
Electromation v. Teamsters Local 1094
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 399-400, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Routledge
Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Union
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 437-439, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Routledge
Lovestone, Jay (1897-1990)
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 827-828, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Routledge
May Day
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 918-920, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage
PATCO Strike
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 1096-1098, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage
Socialist Labor Party
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 1279-1281, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Routledge
Trotskyism
Victor G Devinatz.
(2007), 1396-1398, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Victor G Devinatz.
(2006), 433-434, The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Greenwood Publishing Company
Socialists and Socialism
Victor G Devinatz.
(2006), 783-785, The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Greenwood Publishing Company
Taylorism
Victor G Devinatz.
(2006), Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004, Charles Scribner's Sons
The National War Labor Board
Victor G Devinatz.
(2006), 598-599, The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Greenwood Publishing Company
Labor, 1946-Present
Victor G Devinatz.
(2004), Americans at War Encyclopedia, Macmillan Reference USA
Communism in the U.S. Trade Union Movement
Victor G Devinatz.
(2003), 89-93, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, ABC-Clio Press
George Meany
Victor G Devinatz.
(2003), 348-350, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Vol. 1; A-M, ABC-Clio Press
Industrial Workers of the World
Victor G Devinatz.
(2003), 291-293, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Vol. 1: A-M, ABC-Clio Press
U.S. Labor and industrial Relations Historiography: A Review Essay
Victor G Devinatz.
(2003), xxviii-xxxviii, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Volume 1: A-M, ABC-Clio Press
The Future of Unions in a Changing Economy
Victor G Devinatz.
(2002), 383-398, Human Resource Management, Prentice Hall
An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946-1952
Victor G Devinatz.
(1996), 145-160, Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Conference Proceeding
The Changing Scope of Union Organizing in the United States in the Early Twenty-First Century
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 25-31, (2007)
Testing the Johnston 'Public Sector Union Strike Success Hypothesis' on Illinois Firefighter Strikes, 1968-1980
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 28-33, (2006)
Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 15-20, (2005)
High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 80-85, (2004)
Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 17-22, (2003)
The Latino Gellers' Wildcat Strike at the Biomedical Electronics Corporation
Victor G Devinatz.
North American Management Society, (2003)
A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on The Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program For Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 27-32, (2002)
Struggling Against the Culture of Competition: The Attempt to Organize a Faculty Union at a Public University
Victor G Devinatz.
Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations, 119-139, (2001)
'Glorified Messengers for Management' or 'Legitimate Unionism'? Analyzing Local Independent Unions in the Post Company Union Era
Victor G Devinatz.
Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations, 34-47, (2000)
Analyzing the Core of Labor Process Theory: The Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor
Victor G Devinatz.
Association on Employment Practices and Principles, 1-5, (1999)
Imagine That: A Wildcat at Biomed!: Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunionized Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations, 11- 20, (1999)
Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 90-92, (1998)
When Unaffiliated Unions Compete Against Each Other in Multi Union Elections: A Preliminary Analysis
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 130-132, (1997)
The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos-¬Abatement Workers
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 80-20, (1996)
NLRB Cases Concerning Union Shop Deauthorization Elections
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, (1995)
An Exploratory Investigation of Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions in Multiple Union Elections
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 34-36, (1994)
A New Program For Managing Shop Floor Labor Relations: The International Harvester Corporation and the New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964
Victor G Devinatz.
Midwest Academy of Management, 215-221, (1993)
The Changing Scope of Union Organizing: A Typology of Organizing Trends
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 110-112, (1993)
Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 67-69, (1993)
A Study in the Development of Trade Union Bureaucratization: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941 1981
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations Research Association, 450-457, (1992)
Public Sector Unions That Organize Private Sector Workers: The Changing Scope of Union Organizing
Victor G Devinatz.
Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, 41-43, (1992)
Instructor's Manual
Testing the Johnston "Public Sector Union Strike Success' Hypothesis: A Qualitative Analysis
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 26 (2), 99-112, (1997)
Journal Article
Biographies of US and British Twentieth-Century Leftists: From Early US Cultural Leftism to Stalinism
Victor G Devinatz.
Socialist History, (67), 85-95, (2025)
Class Dealignment, Multiracial Workers, and Labor’s Future After Trump’s Reelection
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 50 (2), 166-174, (2025), 10.1177/0160449X251342415
Labor’s Struggle under Fordist and Post-Fordist Industrial Relations Systems in the 20th and the 21st Centuries
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Labor and Society, 28 (2), 303-323, (2025), 10.1163/24714607-bja10175
The Two Faces of Union Salting
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 75 (1), 5-13, (2024)
The War on the North American Left-Wing Labor Movement From World War I Through the Post-World War II Period
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 49 (1), 60-82, (2024), 10.117/0160449X241232799
The International Brotherhood Welfare Association: An Unexamined Organization of the Early 20th Century Hobo Labor Movement
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 74 (1), 5-11, (2023)
Trade Union Lessons from Early US Trotskyism and US Communism
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 22 (1-2), 68-84, (2023)
US Communists as Early Social Movement Unionists Circa 1930 to 1956?
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Labor and Society, 25 (3), 395-413, (2022)
US Labor Institutionalism’s Rise and Decline and the Death of US Industrial Relations
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 34 (3), 319-333, (2022)
Union Democracy, Union Bureaucracy, and the Left
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 47 (2), 137-148, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0160449X221080371
Before "Banana Time": Donald Roy on Labor, Economic Activities, Unemployment Duration and Politico-Economic Attitudes of Seattle Hooverville Residents
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 72 (1), 50-56, (2021)
The Labor Party Question: Rethinking American Exceptionalism, the CPUSA’s Role and CPUSA-Led/Influenced Trade Union Activity Circa 1936 to 1955
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 20 (1-2), 95 - 107, (2021)
Interpreting the Communist Party USA’s Historical Role in the US Trade Unions: Insights from the Early Institutionalist Theory of Industrial Relations
Victor G Devinatz.
International Critical Thought, 10 (1), 138-149, (2020)
The First International, the US Left and British Trotskyism: Their Relevance to Trade Unions and Workers
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 19 (1-2), 132-142, (2020), https://doi.org/10.1080/14743892.2021.1877071
A U.S. Woman Industrial Relations Pioneer and "Mother of Arbitration": The Life and Times of Jean T. McKelvey
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 70 (1), 64-74, (2019)
Left-Wing SPA-Led and CPUSA-Led Unions and Worker Organizations as the Vanguard of U.S. Social Democracy's Left-Wing, Circa 1935 to 1950
Victor G. Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 44 (1), 60-78, (2019)
The CPUSA's Trade Unionism during Third Period Communism, 1929–1934
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 18 (3-4), 251-268, (2019)
Trade unions, Communities and Struggles: US Sit-down Strikes and Their Potential: From the Committee for Industrial Organisation to the Age of Austerity
Victor G Devinatz.
Theory & Struggle, 119, 100-106, (2018)
What Makes a Good Mediator? Insights from a Mediation Training Program Participant
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 30 (3), 181-201, (2018)
Donald Trump, George Wallace, and the White Working Class
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 42 (3), 233-238, (2017)
Organizing College Athletes Utilizing the Civil Rights Unionism Model
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 29 (3), 107-125, (2017)
Interpreting US Left History in the Age of Neoliberalism and the War on Terror
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 15 (2), 231-242, (2016)
Waukegan's Fansteel Sit-Down Strike and the End of Industrial Militancy
Victor G Devinatz.
Illinois Heritage, 19 (1), 30-34, (2016)
"An Open Letter to Eugene V. Debs": Debs' Relationship to the US Communists circa 1919 to 1924
Victor G Devinatz.
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 18 (2), 267-289, (2015)
Feeling the Heat: An Analysis of Illinois Firefighter Strikes, 1968-1980
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 27 (3), 181-194, (2015)
Right-to-Work Laws, the Southernization of U.S. Labor Relations and the U.S. Trade Union Movement's Decline
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 30 (4), 297-318, (2015)
Why Politics Should Not Be Liberated From Collective Bargaining: Problems with the Unbundled Union Regime
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 66 (2), 99-110, (2015)
Red Unionism during the Depression and under McCarthyism: Reflections on Mine-Mill, the Workers Unity League and the Minneapolis Teamsters
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 13 (2/3), 189-198, (2014)
A Cold War Thaw in the International Working Class Movement? The World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1967-1977
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 77 (3), 342-371, (2013)
Organizing Workfare Workers as Contingent Employees: Lessons from the New York City
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 25 (1), 1-21, (2013)
The Crisis of US Trade Unionism and What Needs to Be Done
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 64 (1), 5-19, (2013)
The Hawthorne Studies: Illuminating the Psychology of Industrial Workers
Victor G Devinatz.
Illinois Heritage, 16 (3), 16-20, (2013)
The Significance of the Living Wage for US Workers in the Early Twenty-First Century
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 25 (2), 25-34, (2013)
Investigating the Unexplored Margins of US Communist Trade Union Historiography, circa 1926-1959
Victor G Devinatz.
Socialist History, (41), 77-90, (2012)
Radical Labor in Illinois: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, 1938-1955
Victor G Devinatz.
Illinois Heritage, 15 (1), 34-38, (2012)
Reevaluating US Company Paternalism from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor History, 53 (2), 305-310, (2012)
Robert J. Alexander's U.S. Left-Wing Interview Collection and Archaeology of Dissident Communism
Victor G Devinatz.
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 15 (2), 153-175, (2012)
Struggling against US Labor's Decline under Late Capitalism: Lessons for the Early 21st Century
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 76 (3), 393-405, (2012)
The Attack on US Public Sector Unionism in the Age of Austerity
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 63 (1), 5-21, (2012)
The Continuing Controversy over Right-to-Work Laws in the Early Twenty-First Century
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 23 (4), 287-293, (2011)
U.S. Trade Unionism under Globalization: The Death of Voluntarism and the Turn to Politics?
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 62 (1), 16-29, (2011)
Does the Change to Win Federation Represent U.S. Labor's Third Moment? Evidence from National Labor Relations Board Certification Elections, 2003-2005
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 22 (3), 161-173, (2010)
John Sweeney's Legacy and the Future of the AFL-CIO
Victor G Devinatz.
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 13 (2), 281-296, (2010)
The Rogue Employer Thesis Revisited: The Fallacy Behind the Center for Union Facts' Union Math, Union Myths
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 61 (1), 15-24, (2010)
Union Solidarity, Collective Struggle and the Caterpillar Labor Dispute, 1991-1998
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 74 (4), 546-553, (2010)
Filling in the Interstices of U.S. Communist Trade Union Historiography during the Ages of Labor Radicalism and McCarthyism
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 9 (2), 211-224, (2009)
The Death of the 'Old Labor Movement' and the Birth of the New: Revitalizing U.S. Labor in the Early 21st Century
Victor G Devinatz.
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 12 (1), 143-158, (2009)
The United Auto Workers Union as American Vanguard, 1935 to 1970: Reality or Illusion?
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 73 (3), 403-410, (2009)
A Cold War at International Harvester: The Shachtmanites and the Farm Equipment Workers Union's Demise, 1946 - 1955
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 72 (2), 182-207, (2008)
David Dubinsky, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and the Limits of Social Democratic Trade Unionism
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 22 (1), 67-78, (2008)
Frank P. Zeidler's Views on Public Sector Labor Relations as Milwaukee's Last Socialist Mayor,1948-1960
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations, 31 (4), 319-332, (2008)
McCarthyism on the Charles: The Life and Times of Labour Historian Ray Ginger before and After His Dismissal from Harvard University
Victor G Devinatz.
Left History, 13 (2), 128-150, (2008)
Rational Self-Interest, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Unionization Campaign Support
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations, 32 (2), 89-95, (2008)
Reading Communist Biographies: The Birth of American Communism, International Communism through the Cold War's Early Years and the New Communist Movement
Victor G Devinatz.
Left History, 12 (2), 136-145, (2008)
Social Movement Unionism and U.S. Labor's Uncertain Future
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations, 32 (3), 181-191, (2008)
Union Organizing Trends and the Question of Post-Industrial Unionism in the Early 21st Century
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 59 (3), 265-270, (2008)
A Reevaluation of the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934
Victor G Devinatz.
Science & Society, 71 (1), 33-58, (2007)
Fighting for a 'Better, More Beautiful World': New York's Yiddish Socialists Circa 1880 to 1920 and International Communist Parties' Third Period Politics, 1928 - 1935
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 6 (2), 209-219, (2007)
Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 19 (1), 1-15, (2007)
The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: The Theory and Practice of Building a Red Industrial Union during Third Period Communism, 1929-1935
Victor G Devinatz.
Nature, Society and Thought, 19 (3), 261-294, (2007)
Trade Unions as Instruments of Social Change: Does Ideology Matter?
Victor G Devinatz.
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 10 (4), 497-508, (2007)
'We Had a Utopia in the Union': James Wright, the Farm Equipment Workers Union and the Struggle for Civil Rights Unionism in Postwar Louisville, 1946-1952
Victor G Devinatz.
Nature, Society and Thought, 20 (3-4), 261-278, (2007)
'Glorified Messengers for Management' or 'Legitimate Unionism'? An Analysis of Local Independent Unions in the Post-Company Union Era
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 18 (4), 231-247, (2006)
To Find Answers to the Urgent Problems of Our Society: The Alliance for Labor Action's Atlanta Union Organizing Offensive, 1969-1971
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 31 (2), 69-91, (2006)
A Heroic Defeat: The Caterpillar Labor Dispute and the UAW, 1991-1998
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 30 (1), 1-18, (2005)
An Analysis of Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League after the Passage of the National Industrial recovery Act, 1933-1934
Victor G Devinatz.
Nature, Society and Thought, 18 (2), 205-217, (2005)
High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17 (3), 143 - 160, (2005)
Kusterer or Manwaring and Wood on the High-Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a U.S. Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17 (1), 3-18, (2005)
The Communist Party's Grassroots Labor and Political Activism Circa 1920 to 1960: Of North Carolina Tobacco Workers, Pennsylvania Anthracite Radicals and the Cold War
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 4 (2), 247-262, (2005)
The Role of the Trotskyists in the United Auto Workers, 1939-1949
Victor G Devinatz.
Left History, 10 (2), 53-82, (2005)
A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on the Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program for Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 16 (1), 13-23, (2004)
Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation Letter from the Labor-Management Group and the Limits of Trade Union Liberalism
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor History, 45 (3), 373-381, (2004)
Reflections of a Rank-and-File Faculty Union Organizer at a Public University
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 30 (3), 209-221, (2004)
Shades of Red: The Leninist Left and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century U.S. Trade Union Movement
Victor G Devinatz.
American Communist History, 3 (1), 161-169, (2004)
The Media and the Public's Negative View of Labor Unions: In Defense of Labor Studies in the University/College Educational Curriculum
Victor G Devinatz.
Thought and Action, 19 (2), 105-116, (2004)
'Imagine That—A Wildcat at Biomed!' Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunion Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 15 (2), 55-70, (2003)
Lenin as Scientific Manager Under Monopoly Capitalism, State Capitalism and Socialism: A Response to Scoville
Victor G Devinatz.
Industrial Relations, 42 (3), 513-520, (2003)
Nelson Lichtenstein and the Politics of Reuther Scholarship
Victor G Devinatz.
Labour/LeTravail, 51, 171-176, (2003)
Reassessing the Historical UAW: Walter Reuther's Affiliation with the Communist Party and Something of its Meaning ' A Document of Party Involvement, 1939
Victor G Devinatz.
Labour/Le Travail, 49, 223-245, (2002)
The Antipolitics and Politics of a New Left Union Caucus: The Workers' Voice Committee of UAW Local 6, 1970-1975
Victor G Devinatz.
Nature, Society and Thought, 14 (3), 285-321, (2002)
The Fears of Resource Standardization and the Creation of an Adversarial Workplace Climate: The Struggle to Organize a Faculty Union at Illinois State University
Victor G Devinatz.
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 11, 145-179, (2002)
Unions, Faculty, and the Culture of Competition
Victor G Devinatz.
Thought and Action, 17 (1), 87-98, (2001)
An Analysis of Employee Voting Behavior in Multi-Union Certification Elections Among Unaffiliated Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 91, 512-514, (2000)
Uncle Sam Does Not Want You To Organize: The 1977 Senate Armed Services Committee Hearings on Outlawing Military Unionization
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 29 (2), 101-116, (2000)
The Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes: the institutionalization of Collective Bargaining, Shop Floor Contractualism, and Fractional Bargaining
Victor G Devinatz.
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 9, 211-237, (1999)
The Real Difference Between the Old Unionism and the New Unionism: A New Strategy for U.S. Public Sector Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 28 (1), 29-39, (1999)
What Do We Know About Mutual Gains Bargaining Among Educators?
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 27 (2), 79-91, (1998)
The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Election Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos Abatement Workers
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 22 (3), 74-91, (1997)
Information, Disinformation, and Union Success in Certification and Decertification Elections
Victor G Devinatz, Daniel P Rich.
Journal Of Labor Research, 17 (1), 199-210, (1996)
Instead of Leaders They Have Become Bankers of Men': Gramsci's Alternative to the U.S. Neoinstitutionalists' Theory of Trade Union Bureaucratization
Victor G Devinatz.
Nature, Society and Thought, 8 (4), 381-403, (1996)
Never Before Have M.D.'s Done So Much For Their Patients: The 1975 Strike by the Cook County Hospital House Staff Association Against Cook County Hospital
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 255 (2), 117-136, (1996)
The Labor Philosophy of William Z. Foster: From the IWW to the TUEL
Victor G Devinatz.
International Social Science Review, 71 (1 2), 3-13, (1996)
A Program For Building Cooperative Shop Floor Labor Relations: The UAW, The International Harvester Corporation and the 'New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 20 (3), 5-18, (1995)
Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 46 (3), 182-186, (1995)
Wayne Kennedy, AFGE Local 2816 and "Community Unionism': A New Conception of Public Sector Unionism
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 24 (2), (1995)
The Breaking of a Militant Public Sector Social Workers Union: The Public Assistance Chapter of the United Public Workers Local 2, 1950 1951
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 23 (1), 45-57, (1994)
The Changing Scope of Union Organizing
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor History, 45 (2), 121-123, (1994)
From Industrial Unionism to General Unionism: An Historical Transformation?
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 44 (4), 252-256, (1993)
Rationalizing the Irrationality of the Shop Floor: A Reinterpretation of Juravich's Chaos on the Shop Floor
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Studies Journal, 18 (1), 3-16, (1993)
Representation Type and Union Success in Certification Elections
Victor G Devinatz, Daniel P Rich.
Journal Of Labor Research, 14 (1), 85-92, (1993)
The AFL CIO Leadership's View on Federal Employee and Teacher Collective Bargaining, 1956 1970
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 22 (4), 297-304, (1993)
Union Shop Authorization Polls: An Historical Re examination
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Law Journal, 42 (12), 821-826, (1991)
Divestiture and Automation of AT&T
Victor G Devinatz.
Labor Center Review, 7, 23-30, (1985)
Serving Bias in the Attribution of Responsibility: Cognitive versus Motivational Explanations
Victor G Devinatz.
Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 17, 408-416, (1981)
Magazine/Trade Publication
“Labor Day 2022: US Trade Unionism in the Covid Era,”
Victor G Devinatz.
StreetWise, 31 (35), 13-14, (2022)
Newsletter
“States with the Highest Job Resignation Rates"
Victor G Devinatz.
WalletHub, (2022)
“2021 Labor Day Facts–Travel, Money and More”
Victor G Devinatz.
WalletHub, (2021)
“Hardest Working Cities in America"
Victor G Devinatz.
WalletHub, (2021)
Newspaper, Article
May Day 2019: The 2018-19 Teacher Strikes and the Fight against Austerity
Victor G Devinatz.
StreetWise, 27 (17), 13, (2019)
Presentations
Communism and American Labor Unions from 1920s to 1940s
Victor G Devinatz.
Podcast for Varn Vlog, Online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWl5uFLSiY, May, 2022
American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34)
Victor G Devinatz.
Comsmonaut Magazine, Online at https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/03/american-communist-labor-strategy-during-the-third-period-1929-34-with-victor-devinatz/, March, 2022
The Crisis of US Trade Unionism and What Needs to be Done
Victor G Devinatz.
Normal Illinois, , 2013
Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Baltimore Maryland, October, 2005
High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Ft.Lauderdale Florida, October, 2004
Kusterer or Manwaring and Wood on the High-Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
San Diego California, October, 2003
The Alliance for Labor Action: A Rejection of AFL-CIO Business Unionism and a Return to CIO Social Unionism?
Victor G Devinatz.
Atlanta Georgia, July, 2003
The Latino Gellers' Wildcat Strike at the Biomedical Electronics Corporation
Victor G Devinatz.
Chicago Illinois, March, 2003
A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on The Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program For Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right
Victor G Devinatz.
New York New York, October, 2002
Struggling Against the Culture of Competition: The Attempt to Organize a Faculty Union at a Public University
Victor G Devinatz.
Chicago Illinois, March, 2001
Conducted a seminar/workshop in which I taught mutual gains bargaining skills to Farmers Insurance (Aurora, IL) employees, March 9, 2000
Victor G Devinatz.
null, , 2000
Did They Stand Fast: The Role of the Trotskyists in the UAW, 1939-1948
Victor G Devinatz.
New York New York, September, 2000
Analyzing the Core of Labor Process Theory: The Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor
Victor G Devinatz.
New York New York, October, 1999
"Imagine That: A Wildcat at Biomed!': Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunionized Medical Electronics Factory
Victor G Devinatz.
Chicago Illinois, March, 1999
The Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes
Victor G Devinatz.
Nashville Tennessee, October, 1998
When Unaffiliated Unions Compete Against Each Other in Multi-¬Union Elections: A Preliminary Analysis
Victor G Devinatz.
Lexington Kentucky, October, 1997
The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos Abatement Workers
Victor G Devinatz.
Asheville North Carolina, October, 1996
NLRB Cases Concerning Union Shop Deauthorization Elections
Victor G Devinatz.
Montgomery Alabama, October, 1995
An Exploratory Investigation of Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions in Multiple Union Elections
Victor G Devinatz.
Morgantown West Virginia, October, 1994
The Changing Scope of Union Organizing: A Typology of Organizing Trends
Victor G Devinatz.
Myrtle Beach South Carolina, October, 1993
Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions
Victor G Devinatz.
Myrtle Beach South Carolina, October, 1993
A New Program For Managing Shop Floor Labor Relations: The International Harvester Corporation and the "New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964
Victor G Devinatz.
Indianapolis Indiana, April, 1993
Public Sector Unions That Organize Private Sector Workers: The Changing Scope of Union Organizing
Victor G Devinatz.
Dothan Alabama, October, 1992
A Study in the Development of Trade Union Bureaucratization: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941 1981
Victor G Devinatz.
New Orleans Louisiana, January, 1992
A History of the American Labor Movement, 1955 1990
Victor G Devinatz.
Minneapolis Minnesota, March, 1991