11 Facts About Irving Bernstein

Irving Bernstein was an American professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a noted labor historian.

Irving Bernstein's parents were Latvian immigrants, and his father was a baker.

Irving Bernstein obtained a master's degree in 1940 from Harvard University.

In 1941, Irving Bernstein became a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC The same year, he married his wife, Fredrika.

Irving Bernstein was an industrial economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1941 to 1942 and a hearing officer at the National War Labor Board from 1942 to 1943.

In 1948, Irving Bernstein was appointed a research professor at the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations.

Irving Bernstein returned briefly to government service during the Korean War.

Irving Bernstein became a professor in the department of political science at UCLA in 1960.

Irving Bernstein earned critical praise for the first two books of A History of the American Worker, a trilogy about the American labor movement in the interwar period.

In both books, Irving Bernstein argued that the New Deal and labor unions preserved democracy and capitalism at a time when the survival of both was unclear, and that New Deal labor policy dramatically reoriented public policy away from employers toward workers.

Irving Bernstein was an officer of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and a member of the Federal Services Impasses Panel from 1979 to 1980.