DEBORAH M. FIGART Brief Biography

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1 DEBORAH M. FIGART Brief Biography Deborah M. Figart received her B.A. in Economics in 1981, summa cum laude, from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. in Economics in 1986 from The American University in Washington, DC. Throughout her career, she has taught courses in economics, management, women s studies, labor studies, and other interdisciplinary subjects in the social sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also spent a semester teaching at a study abroad program in Brussels, Belgium, in 1987, and was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Western Europe in Dr. Figart has published books and articles on social economics topics related to the labor market: pay equity, discrimination, working time, job evaluation, emotional labor, career ladders, employment policies, and poverty. From , she served as President of the Association for Social Economics. Currently, she is Coeditor of one of the Association s journals, Review of Social Economy, and on the Editorial Boards of Feminist Economics, the Review of Political Economy, and the new journal, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. Dean Figart has also served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Evolutionary Economics ( ) and the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Issues ( ). In 1992, she was one of 50 founding members of the International Association for Feminist Economics and remains active in the association, especially in the area of long-range fundraising. She reviews articles and manuscripts for numerous journals in the social sciences and book publishers. Dean Figart is a widely published scholar on labor market policies in the USA and Europe, especially the area of gender and race-ethnicity. Her numerous books consist of authored and edited volumes, including Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States (London: Routledge, 2002), coauthored with Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power. For a sample of her scholarship in books, journals, and edited volumes in economics, political economy, sociology, industrial relations, and women s studies, please consult her major publications list. She also serves her profession and the community by reviewing manuscripts for professional journals and book publishers, delivering papers at conferences, speaking to organizations and community groups, writing book reviews and op ed. pieces, and responding to media requests for interviews and information on employment issues.

2 Major Publications: Books, Monographs, Guest Editorships Deborah M. Figart and John Marangos, Guest Editors, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 66, No. 1 (March 2008). Special Issue on Living Standards and Social Well-Being. Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, and Deborah M. Figart, editors. Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics. London: Routledge, Deborah M. Figart, editor. Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, editors. Women and the Economy: A Reader. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power. Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States. London: Routledge, Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, editors. Working Time: International Trends, Theory, and Policy Perspectives. London: Routledge, Ronnie J. Steinberg and Deborah M. Figart, editors. Emotional Labor in the Service Economy. Vol. 561 of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Sage Publications, January Deborah M. Figart and Lonnie Golden, Guest Editors, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter 1998). Special Issue on The Social Economics of Work Time. Deborah M. Figart et al., Associate Editors (General Editor Phillip Anthony O Hara). Encyclopedia of Political Economy, 2 volumes. London: Routledge, Deborah M. Figart and Peggy Kahn. Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Deborah M. Figart. Economic Status of Women in the Labor Market and Prospects for Pay Equity Over the Life Cycle. Washington, DC: American Association of Retired Persons, Women s Economic Agenda Working Group (Barbara Ehrenreich et al.). Toward Economic Justice for Women: A National Agenda for Change. Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, 1985.

3 Refereed Journal Articles Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Transformations in Casino Gaming and the Unionization of Atlantic City s Dealers, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 40, No 3 (September 2008), pp Deborah M. Figart and John Marangos, Introduction to Living Standards and Social Well- Being, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 66, No. 1 (March 2008), pp Deborah M. Figart, Social Responsibility for Living Standards, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 65, No. 4 (December 2007), pp Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Re-reading Becker: Contextualizing the Development of Discrimination Theory, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2005, pp Deborah M. Figart, Labor Market Policy: One Institutionalist s Agenda, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2003, pp Ellen Mutari, Marilyn Power, and Deborah M. Figart, Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: The Exclusion of African-American Women from US Minimum Wage Policies, , Feminist Economics, Special Issue on Gender, Color, Caste and Class, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2002, pp Deborah M. Figart, Ethical Foundations of the Contemporary Living Wage Movement, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 28 (10/11/12), 2001, pp Deborah M. Figart, Wage-Setting Under Fordism: Job Evaluation and the Ideology of Equal Pay, Review of Political Economy, Vol. 13, No. 4 (October 2001), pp [Lead article] Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart, and Marilyn Power, Wages as a Living, Price, and Social Practice: Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States, Feminist Economics, Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 2001), pp Deborah M. Figart, In Pursuit of Racial Equality: The Political Economy of Rhonda M. Williams, The Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 4, (Spring 2001), pp [Lead article] Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time, Social Politics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2001), pp

4 Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Work Time Regimes in Europe: Can Flexibility and Gender Equity Coexist? Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 34, No. 4 (December 2000), pp Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, Doing Something About Longer Hours, Challenge, Vol. 43, No. 6, November 2000, pp [Nominated/Finalist for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research] Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Horarios Largos y Cortos: Qué Puede Aprender Norteamérica de Europa? [Long Hours and Short Hours: What Can North America Learn from Europe?] Investigación Económica núm. 234 (Octubre-Diciembre 2000), pp Deborah M. Figart, Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Role of Job Evaluation in an Evolving Social Norm, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2000, pp [Lead article] Ronnie J. Steinberg and Deborah M. Figart, Emotional Labor Since The Managed Heart, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Emotional Labor in the Service Economy. Sage Periodicals, Vol. 561, January 1999, pp Ronnie J. Steinberg and Deborah M. Figart, Emotional Demands at Work: A Job Content Analysis, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Emotional Labor in the Service Economy. Sage Periodicals, Vol. 561, January 1999, pp Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Degendering Work Time in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Policy Frameworks, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter 1998), pp Deborah M. Figart and Lonnie Golden, Introduction to the Social Economics of Work Time, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter 1998), pp June Lapidus and Deborah M. Figart, Remedying Unfair Acts : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender, Feminist Economics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998), pp [Lead article] Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, Will Comparable Worth Reduce Race-Based Wage Discrimination? Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp Peggy Kahn and Deborah M. Figart, Reviving Pay Equity: New Strategies for Attacking the Wage Gap, Working USA, July/August 1998, pp

5 Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Markets, Flexibility, and Family: Evaluating the Gendered Discourse Against Pay Equity, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 1997), pp Deborah M. Figart, Gender as More than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp [Lead article] [Excerpted in Women and the Economy: A Reader, eds. Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., pp ] Deborah M. Figart, A Living Wage as a Prescription for Working Families, Michigan Family Review special issue titled From Welfare to Well-being: Families and Economics, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Winter ), pp Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality, Work and Occupations, Vol. 23, No. 3 (August 1996), pp Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, A Gender Analysis of U.S. Labor Market Policies for the Working Poor, Feminist Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp (Coauthor: June Lapidus). [Reprinted in Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, February 22, 1995, pp ] Deborah M. Figart, Evaluating Pay Equity in Michigan: A Strategic Choice Perspective, Industrial Relations, Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 1995), pp June Lapidus and Deborah M. Figart, Comparable Worth as an Anti-Poverty Strategy: Evidence from the March 1992 CPS, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 1994), pp [Lead article.] Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Gender Segmentation of Craft Workers by Race in the 1970s and 1980s, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 25, No. 2, (Spring 1993), pp Deborah M. Figart, Is Positive Action Positive? Collective Bargaining in the Irish Civil Service, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 1992), pp Deborah M. Figart, Collective Bargaining and Career Development for Women in the Public Sector, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 18, 4 (Winter 1989), pp Deborah M. Figart, Gender, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets: Evidence from the Public Sector in Two States, American Economic Review, Vol. 77, 2 (May 1987), pp

6 Other Refereed Publications Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Discrimination, Taste for, invited 500-word entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2 nd edition, 9 vols. Editor in chief William A. Darity, Jr. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp Deborah M. Figart, Discrimination, 4000-word entry in Handbook of Economics and Ethics, eds. Irene van Staveren and Jan Peil. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, Deborah M. Figart and Heidi I. Hartmann, Gender-Based Structure of Work, entry in Encyclopedia of Leadership, Vol. 1, general editors George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2004, pp Deborah M. Figart, Introduction, Feminist Political Economy, Seventh Special Issue on Gender, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 33, 4 (December 2001), pp Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Finland Experiments with a Six-Hour Work Day: A Family Friendly Policy? Dollars and Sense, No. 237, September/October 2001, pp and 44. [Reprinted in Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies, Allyn and Bacon, 2004.] Deborah M. Figart, Discrimination, Theories of, 2000-word entry in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, eds. Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart, Wage Gap, 2000-word entry in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, eds. Janice Peterson and Margaret. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000, pp Heidi Hartmann and Deborah M. Figart, Comparable Worth/Pay Equity, 3000-word entry in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, eds. Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart, Participation in the Labor Force, 1400-word entry in Encyclopedia of Political Economy edited by Phillip Anthony O Hara, Routledge, 1999, pp Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Feminist Political Economy: Paradigms, 1300-word entry in Encyclopedia of Political Economy edited by Phillip Anthony O Hara, Routledge, 1999, pp

7 Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, It s About Time: Will Europe Solve the Work/Family Dilemma? Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998, pp Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, How Women Can Earn a Living Wage: The Effects of Pay Equity Remedies and a Higher Minimum Wage, Research-in-Brief, Washington, DC: Institute for Women s Policy Research: May Barbara R. Bergmann and Deborah M. Figart, Facilitating Women s Occupational Integration, for the Department of Labor, Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency, June Book Chapters Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Work: Its Social Meanings and Role in Provisioning, in The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, eds. John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Linda J. Wharton, United States of America: Pay Equity Confronts Wage Inequality in a Liberalized Economy. In Pay Equity Fifty Years On: Trends and Prospects in Cross-National Perspective, ed. Gillian Whitehouse. London: Routledge, forthcoming. Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Wage Discrimination in Context: Enlarging the Field of View. In The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, eds. Dell P. Champlin and Janet Knoedler. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2004, pp Deborah M. Figart, Introduction to Living Wages Around the Globe. In Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives, ed. Deborah M. Figart. London: Routledge, 2004, pp Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Wages and Hours: Historical and Contemporary Linkages. In Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives, ed. Deborah M. Figart. London: Routledge, 2004, pp Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power, Breadwinners and Other Workers: Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Evolution of the Labor Force. In Women and the Economy: A Reader, eds. Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003, pp Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari, and Deborah M. Figart, Beyond Markets: Wage Setting and the Methodology of Feminist Political Economy. In Toward a Feminist Methodology of Economics, eds. Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper. London: Routledge, 2003, pp

8 Deborah M. Figart, Policies to Provide Non-Invidious Employment. In Institutional Analysis and Economic Policy, eds. Marc R. Tool and Paul D. Bush. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp Deborah M. Figart and Beth Olsen, What Can Volunteer Work Teach Students about the Study of Paid Work? A Discussion of a Women-and-Work Course. In Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Economics, eds. KimMarie McGoldrick and Andrea L. Ziegert. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002, pp Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality. In Working in Restructured Workplaces, eds. Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen Campbell, and Holly McCammon. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001, pp Deborah M. Figart, Raising the Minimum Wage and Living Wage Campaigns. In Squaring Up: Policy Strategies to Raise Women s Incomes in the United States, ed. Mary C. King. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart and Lonnie Golden, Introduction and Overview: Understanding Working Time Around the World. In Working Time: International Trends, Theory, and Policy Perspectives, eds. Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart. London: Routledge, 2000, pp Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, The Social Implications of European Work Time Policies: Promoting Gender Equity? In Working Time: International Trends, Theory, and Policy Perspectives, eds. Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart. London: Routledge, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, It s About Time: Will Europe Solve the Work/Family Dilemma? In Law and Ethics in the Business Environment, 3 rd ed., eds. Terry Halbert and Elaine Ingulli. West Legal Studies in Business Series, Thompson Learning, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart and Heidi I. Hartmann, Broadening the Concept of Pay Equity: Lessons for a Changing Economy. In Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy, eds. Ron Baiman, Heather Boushey, and Dawn Saunders. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari, Global Feminization and Flexible Labour Markets: The Implications for Pay Equity Reform. In Women, Work and Inequality: The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market, eds. Jeanne Gregory, Rosemary Sales, and

9 Ariane Hegewisch. London and New York: Macmillan Press and St. Martin s Press, 1999, pp Peggy Kahn and Deborah M. Figart, Public Sector Reforms in a Changing Economic and Political Climate: Lessons from the State of Michigan. In Women, Work and Inequality: The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market, eds. Jeanne Gregory, Rosemary Sales, and Ariane Hegewisch. London and New York: Macmillan Press and St. Martin s Press, 1999, pp Irene Bruegel, Deborah M. Figart, and Ellen Mutari, Whose Full Employment? A Feminist Perspective on Full Employment and Work Redistribution. In Work and Idleness: The Political Economy of Full Employment, eds. Jane Wheelock and John Vail. Series on Recent Economic Thought: Development, Tensions, Prospects, eds. Warren Samuelson and William Darity, Jr. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, pp Deborah M. Figart and June Lapidus, Reversing the Great U-Turn: Pay Equity, Poverty, and Inequality. In Gender and Political Economy: Incorporating Diversity into Theory and Policy, eds. Ellen Mutari, Heather Boushey, and William Fraher IV. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997, pp Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, Comparable Worth in a Restructuring Economy: Discourse and Counter-Discourse. In Gender and Political Economy: Incorporating Diversity into Theory and Policy, eds. Ellen Mutari, Heather Boushey, and William Fraher IV. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997, pp June Lapidus and Deborah M. Figart, Occupational Segregation and Comparable Worth. In The Welfare Reform Debate: Critical Policy Issues. Chicago, IL: The Job Gap Project (Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois, Chicago Urban League, and The Office for Social Policy Research at Northern Illinois University), July 1996.