About the Author

A professor of management at Colorado State University, Raymond Hogler has worked and taught in the field of employment relations for three decades. He received Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. Following a judicial clerkship, he spent two years with a management consulting firm in Denver representing employers in labor law matters and then moved to the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Colorado. He then taught at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, where he earned tenure and promotion. His publication record includes over sixty articles in academic and legal journals and several books, the most recent of which is Employment Relations in the United States (Sage, 2004). Among other honors, he was awarded the 2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Labor Law at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) where he taught a course on American labor relations.