The Labor and Employment Relations Association
is the world's leading academic learned society that focuses on industrial
relations. Earlier this year Daniel B. Klein's Econ Journal
Watch published my article "The
Left Orientation of Industrial Relations," in which I document the
field’s left-wing orientation. The article reviews the political affiliations
of the faculty and the ideological orientation of their publications.
Professor Bruce E. Kaufman, a leading industrial
relations scholar, wrote a response to my piece, and Econ Journal Watch published
Professor
Kaufman's response and my
reply. LERA's website has now republished the exchange. As Dan
Klein just emailed to Heterodox Academy, "LERA is a central
player in the very field that Langbert treats. A nice example of a
left-oriented outfit opening its attention to our point of view:
