James Heintz - Curriculum Vita

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Political Economy Research Institute
University of Massachusetts , Amherst , MA 01003
jheintz@peri.umass.edu. Tel: (413) 545-6355
January 2004

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Current Position

Assistant Research Professor Political Economy Research Institute (since Sept. 2001) University of Massachusetts

Education

Ph.D., May 2001 Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts

Dissertation: Investment, Labor Demand, and Political Conflict in South Africa

Master of Science, 1992 Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Bachelor of Science, 1990 Cornell University


Publications, Papers, and Presentations

Articles published in reviewed journals

with Robert Pollin and Justine Burns. (2002) “Global apparel production and sweatshop labor: can raising retail prices finance living wages?” Cambridge Journal of Economics . forthcoming 2004.

“Beyond sweatshops: employment, labor market security, and global inequality.” Antipode , forthcoming March 2004.

“Political conflict and the social structure of accumulation: the case of South African apartheid.” (2002) Review of Radical Political Economics . 34(3): 319-34.

Journal articles under review

with Robert Pollin “Informalization, economic growth and the challenge of creating viable labor standards in developing countries” Cornell Electronic Journal (submitted 13 June 2003 ).

Books

with Nancy Folbre. (2000). The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America . New York : New Press.

Book chapters and non-refereed journal articles

“Comment [On ‘Monitoring Labor Standards in a Macroeconomic Context' by Bill Gibson]”, Analytical Political Economy Conference Volume , New York : M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming, 2005.

with Robert Pollin “Evaluation of a proposal to re-instate the New York stock transfer tax”, Challenge Magazine , July/August 2003.

“Informalization and global employment,” South African Labour Bulletin , June 2003.

“Global labor standards: their impact and implementation”. In The Handbook of Globalization , Jonathan Michie, ed. 2003, Cheltenham , UK : Edward Elgar, pp. 216-33.

“Income inequality”. (2002). In World at Risk: a global issues sourcebook . Washington , D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Press, pp. 343-64.

“Jobs, redistribution, and public responsibility” (2000). South African Labour Bulletin . 24(3).

“GEAR [Growth, Employment, and Redistribution]: A labour perspective .” (1997). Indicator South Africa : A Barometer of Social Trends . University of Natal , Durban , South Africa . December.

with Samuel Bowles. (1996). “Subsidizing employment: wage subsidies and job creation.” 1996. In Jeremy Baskin, ed. Against the Current: Labour and Economic Policy in South Africa . Raven, Johannesburg , pp. 186-206

Working papers, research reports, and unpublished papers

“Elaborating Employment Strategies within the Context of the Ghana Poverty

Reduction Strategy (GPRS)”, January 2004, Report prepared for the joint ILO/UNDP Mission to Accra , Ghana , Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, 2003 .

with Robert Pollin “ Informalization, economic growth and the challenge of creating viable labor standards in developing countries ”, 2003, Working Paper No. 60, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts.

“ The new face of unequal exchange: low-wage manufacturing, commodity chains, and global inequality ,” 2003, Working Paper No. 59, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts .

with Robert Pollin “ Evaluation of a proposal to re-instate the New York stock transfer tax ,” 2003, Research Report No.7, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts .

“ Global labor standards: their impact and implementation ,” 2002. Working Paper No. 46, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts .

“ Capital accumulation and macro policy in South Africa: political instability, distributive conflict, and economic institutions ,” 2002. Working Paper No. 29, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts .

“Employment subsidies: job creation options for South Africa ,” February 2001. Commissioned by the World Bank, Southern Africa Desk.

“Employment, investment, and distribution in South Africa .” 2001. Johannesburg : Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat (TIPS), working paper.

“Labour demand and job creation in South Africa .” June 1998. Research Report. National Labour and Economic Development Institute, Johannesburg , South Africa .

with Conrad Jardine. “Poverty and economics in South Africa .” April 1998. Commissioned by the South African NGO Coalition, the South Africa Human Rights Commission, and the Commission for Gender Equality. Johannesburg , South Africa .

with Samuel Bowles. “Wages and employment in South Africa : an econometric investigation.” January 1996. Commissioned by the Presidential Labour Market Commission, Department of Labour, Pretoria , South Africa

Conference Presentations

“The New Face of Unequal Exchange: low-wage manufacturing, commodity chains, and global inequality,” Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) National Conference, January 3-5, 2004 , San Diego , CA .

“Supply chains and living wages,” Beyond Questions of Principle: Exploring the Implementation of Living Wages in Today's Global Economy , a forum organized by the Fair Labor Association in cooperation with the Schell Center for Human Rights, Yale Law School; Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University; and SIPA Human Rights Concentration, Columbia University, October 20, 2003.

“Global Labor Standards, Gender, and Poverty” International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics, University of Utah , June 2-4, 2003 .

“Global labor standards, workers' rights, and living wages,” Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) national conference, January 3-5, 2003 , Washington , D.C.

(with Robert Pollin). “The role of the informal sector in creating global labor standards,” Rethinking Labor Market Informalization: precarious jobs, poverty, and social protection . Cornell University , October 18-19, 2002

“Political conflict and the social structure of accumulation: the case of South African apartheid.” Allied Social Science Association national conference (ASSA), January 4-6, 2002 , Atlanta , Georgia .

“Global apparel production and sweatshop labor,” Global Labor Justice Conference, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago . April 27-8, 2001.

“Political unrest, distributive conflict and investment in South Africa .” Invited speaker. Workshop: Finance and investment: evidence from Africa and around the world. Political Economy Research Institute. Amherst , MA . October 26-8. 2000.

“Employment, investment, and distribution in South Africa .” Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat (TIPS) Policy Forum 2000. Gauteng , South Africa . September 18-20.

“Macroeconomic policy and job creation.” Conference: Getting South Africa Working. National Labour and Economic Development Institute and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Johannesburg , South Africa . March 2000.

Service as Referee

World Development, 2004

Feminist Economics, 2003

Journal of Economic Studies, 2002

Other Relevant Employment Experience

Senior Researcher National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Oct 1996 to June 1998) Johannesburg , South Africa .
Performed policy-related research, engaged in national tripartite policy bargaining forums, developed capacity building programs, and supervised researchers for a research and policy think-tank affiliated with the South African labor movement.

Grants/Awards

Research Fellow. Political Economy Research Institute, 2000-01.

Graduate School Fellowship, 1998-99. University of Massachusetts .

Human Sciences Research Council Grant. “An Analysis of Labour Demand in South Africa .” 1997-98. Pretoria , South Africa .

Chair's Award for Teaching, University of Massachusetts , 1996, 2001.

Graduate School Fellowship, 1990-91. University of Minnesota . Minneapolis , MN .