John Bertram Andrews

John Bertram Andrews (1880–1943) was an American economist.

Background

John Bertram Andrews born in 1880 in South Wayne, Wisconsin, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin and at Dartmouth College.

Career

Andrews taught economics at both the University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth College.

In 1906, he co-founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) with other economists.[1] In 1911, he founded the American Labor Legislation Review with the purpose of recording advances in social reforms.

In 1921, Andrews was called by President Harding to serve on the Unemployment Conference. He was a member of the secretariat to the League of Nations' first official International Labor Conference in Washington, D.C.

Works

Together with John R. Commons, he was the author of Principles of Labor Legislation (1916) and History of Labor in the United States (1918).

References

  1. ↑ Moss, David A. (1994). "Kindling a flame under federalism: Progressive reformers, corporate elites, and the phosphorus match campaign of 1909-1912". Business History Review. 68 (2): 244–275. doi:10.2307/3117443. JSTOR 3117443. S2CID 155436193. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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