Gilbert J. Gall

Gilbert J. Gall was formerly an Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Penn State University. In 1999, he left academia and worked as a union representative for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, from which he retired as Region Field Director in 2014.

Selected publications include:

Books: Co-author (with Robert H. Zieger and Timothy L. Minchin) of American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century, 4th ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014; second co-author with Zieger of 3rd edition, 2002); Author of Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO (SUNY Press, 1999) and The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979 (Greenwood Press, 1988); Author of chapters in Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: the Labor-Liberal Alliance, Kevin Boyle, ed. (SUNY Press, 1998) and Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century South, Robert H. Zieger, ed. (University of Tennessee Press, 1991).

Articles: "Rights Which Have Meaning: Reconceiving Labor Liberty in the 1940s," Labor History 39:3 (August, 1998); "Union Security Rights at the Polls: A Call for Modeling Right-to-Work Voting," Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 9:1 (March, 1996); "Verbal Behavior and Personality Analysis in Historical Biography," (co-author Walter Weintraub, M.D.), Psychohistory Review, 24:3 (1996); "The CIO and the Hatch Act," Labor's Heritage 7:1 (Summer, 1993); "Right-to-Work Referendum Voting: Observations on the Aggregate Historical Statistics," Labor Law Journal 39:12 (December, 1998); "Constant Vigilance: The Heritage of the AFL's Response to Right to Work Legislation," Labor Studies Journal 9 (Fall, 1984); "Heber Blankenhorn: The Publicist as Reformer," The Historian 45:4 (August 1983).