December, 1998

Francis M. McLaughlin

Department of Economics

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

e-mail:francis.mclaughlin@bc.edu

 

Education:

Boston College, S.B. Social Science, 1954.

Boston College, A.M. Economics, 1957.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Economics, 1964.

Present Academic Positions:

Associate Professor of Economics, Boston College since 1968.

Assistant Chairman of Economics, Boston College since 1971.

Previous Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston College, 1964-68.

Instructor in Economics, Boston College, 1961-64.

Faculty member Harvard University Trade Union Fellows Program. 1985-98.

Faculty member Harvard University Institute in Employment and Training Administration, Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1972-81.

Faculty member Labor Relations Institute, University of Massachusetts in Boston, 1974.

Faculty member Seminar on the Evaluation and Planning of Social Manpower Programs, Brandeis University, 1973.

Visiting Associate Professor of Industrial Relations Sloan School, MIT, 1970-71.

Research Affiliate, Sloan School of Management, MIT, 1966-70.

Teaching Assistant in Economics., MIT, 1960-61.

Academic Honors:

Clarence Hicks Fellow in Industrial Relations, MIT, 1959-60.

Departmental Fellow in Economics, MIT, 1958-59.

Alumni Gold Medal for Scholarship and Leadership, Boston College 1954.

Companion of Justice, Jesuit Community at Boston College, 1991.

Other Employment:

Jackson & Moreland Engineers, Boston, MA, 1947-56.

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA., 1956-58.

Trade Union Experience:

Local 105, American Federation of Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO, Negotiating Committee member, and Recording Secretary, 1956-1958.

Military Service:

United States Air Force Reserve, 1950-53: active duty, 1951-52.

Sponsored Research:

Directed Ford Foundation sponsored research on the impact of urban renewal on displaced firms and workers, 1966-71.

Other Professional Experience:

External review: Graduate Program in Economics, Northeastern U., 1984.

Consultant to Boston University Institute for Employment Policy for study of the Massachusetts fishing industry, 1982.

Editorial Board., New England Journal of Employment and Training, 1981.

Consultant on Evaluation Project with the Research and Program Development Unit, Mass. Department of Manpower Development 1979-80.

Consultant on Evaluation Project with the Boston Employment and Economic Policy Administration for the Employment & Training Administration, United States Department of Labor, 1977-78.

Referee Journal of Industrial Economics, 1977 and 1982.

Referee Western Economic Journal, 1971.

Referee Eastern Economic Journal, 1992.

Referee Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1993

Associated with Olympus Research Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, in evaluating federal manpower programs in four cities, 1969-71.

Member of fact finding panel, Mass. Dept of Conc. & Arb., 1967-72.

Occasional pre-publication manuscript reviewer, 1964 to present.

University Service:

University Core Development Committee, 1991-96.

University Academic Council, 1991.

Arts and Sciences Educational Policy Committee, 1990-93.

Advisory Committee to the Dean for Student Development, 1991-92.

Faculty Review Committee, 1987-90

Faculty Compensation Committee, 1987-90.

Arts & Sciences Faculty Senate, 1986-88.

Committee on Awards and Honorary Degrees, 1983-84.

Chairman, University Hearing Committee, 1980-81.

Arts and Sciences Dean's Search Committee, 1979-80.

Perspectives III Study Group, 1977-81.

University Academic Senate, 1977-79.

University Academic Planning Council, 1973-75.

University Budget Committee, 1971-73.

Arts and Sciences Educational Policy Committee, 1965-68.

Danforth Committee on Religion and Moral Action, 1964.

Professional Associations:

American Economic Association.

Industrial Relations Research Association.

Labor Guild, Archdiocese of Boston.

Community Service:

St John Chrysostom St Vincent De Paul Conference 1996-present.

Marriage Preparation Team, Boston College Chaplaincy 1990-present.

Co-trustee John Dunphy Charitable Trust, 1987 to present

Marriage Preparation Team, St. Theresa Parish, 1984-89

Eucharistic Minister, St. Theresa Parish, 1984-86.

Lector, St. Angela Parish, 1972-80.

Labor Market Advisory Comm. Member, Boston, Employ. & Ec. Pol. Admin.

Mattahunt Community School Council, 1976-77.

The Mattapan Organization, Executive Board, 1967-69.

Citizens for the Boston Schools, Executive Board, 1965-70.

National Council of Catholic Men, Board of Directors, 1961-65.

Boston Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men, Bd. of Directors, 1958-66.

Boston Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men, President, 1964-66.

Ph.D Dissertation:

"Industrial Relations in the Boston Longshore Industry," unpublished Ph.D thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964, 249 pages.

M.A. Thesis:

"The Problem of Representation in the A.F of L. and

the C.I.O.," unpublished M.A. thesis, Boston College, 1957, 113 pages.

Monographs:

Evaluating the Performance of Employment and Training Programs at the Local Level, United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Region I, Boston, 1978, 1256 pages, (with A. Sum, K. Mazzeo, and J. Zornitsky).Volume I: The Role of Program Evaluation at the Local Level. Volume II: The Use of Process, Outcome, and Benefit Cost Evaluation Techniques. Volume III:The Design and Implementation of Local Follow-up Evaluation Systems.

"Total Impact Evaluation of Manpower Programs in Four Cities," Jan., 1970 (Report prepared for the Office of Evaluation, Manpower Administration United States Department of Labor by a research team of economists headed by Garth Mangum and Thayne Robson of the University of Utah. It was first published by the National Clearinghouse for Scientific and Technical Information, and later published as Metropolitan Impact of Manpower Programs: A Four City Comparison (Olympus Publishing Co., 1973) with Mangum and Robson as editors and with the contributions of the individual members of research team recognized.

"Displaced Firms and Workers in Urban Renewal: A Case Study," Nov., 1971, 289 pages. Final report on Ford Foundation funded research.

Articles:

"The Boston Longshoremen's Strike of 1931," Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. XXVI, No.2, Summer, 1998, pp. 158-171.

"The Replacement of the Knights of Labor by the International Longshoremen’s Association in the Port of Boston," Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Winter, 1998, pp. 27-45.

"Findings of a Process Evaluation of the Implementation of the Skills Training Program (STIP) in Marlboro, Massachusetts," New England Journal of Employment and Training, Winter 1981, pp. 68-85.

"CETA & the Private Sector: The Skills Training Improvement Program in Massachusetts," in Paul E. Harrington, et al. (ed.), Current Issues in Employment and Training Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, (Northeastern University Department of Economics, Center for Labor Market Studies, March 1980), pp. 43-80.

"An Evaluation of Manpower Programs in the City of Boston," Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting IRRA, Dec., 1969, (with Irwin L.Herrnstadt, et al.), pp. 24-34.

"The Development of Labor Peace in the Port of Boston," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January, 1967, pp. 221-233.

Reviews:

B.R. Morris, Economic Growth and Development, AER, December, 1967.

R.A. Gordon, The Goal of Full Employment, IMR, Spring, 1968.

H.B. Lary, Imports of Manufactures from Less Developed Countries, MLR, August, 1968.

B.B. Seligman, Economics of Dissent, Boston Sunday Globe, March 9, 1969.

D. Gordon, Theories of Poverty and Underemployment, ILRR, October, 1973.

Presentations:

Comments on Michael White's "Pluralism and Secularism in the Political Order: St. Augustine and Theoretical Liberalism", Boston College Institute on Religion and Politics, Jan. 27, 1995.

"Jane Jacobs' 'The Economy of Cities: Content and Comment'," The "Jane Jacobs in Conversation Conference," Boston College, Nov., 1993.

"The Transformation of the Paradigm of English Classical Economics." Meetings of the Boston College Perspectives Program faculty, May 1993.

"Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments." Meetings of Boston College Perspectives Program faculty, May 1992.

"A Reflection on Papal Social Teaching on the Economy and the Encyclical Centesimus Annus." College of the Holy Cross, Feb., 1992.

"Comments on Arthur Melzer’s 'Rousseau, Christianity, and the Religion of Sincerity'" Boston College Institute on Religion and Politics, March 22, 1991.

"Economists, the Catholic Bishops, and Adam Smith." Kress Society for the study of the History of Economic Thought, March 16, 1989.

"Economics and Moral Philosophy: Some Early Modern Connections." Boston College Chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, May, 1988.

"Comments on Ralph Lerner’s "Believers and the Founders' Constitution," Boston College Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, April 29, 1988.

"Keynes' Challenge to the Classical Tradition." The combined sections of the course Horizons of the New Social Sciences, March 1985.

"A Discourse on Classical Economics." The combined sections of the course Horizons of the New Social Sciences, Fall, 1983.

"Laborem Exercens and the Value of Labor." Symposium on Pope John XXIII's encyclical "Laborem Exercens" sponsored by the Boston College Chaplaincy, April, 1982.

"Should Oil Prices Be Controlled?" Symposium on oil price regulation, Boston College, March, 1980.

"Some Aspects of the Current Inflation." College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Seminar, Boston College, October 23, 1974.

Other Papers:

"Economics and the Common Good," 1997, 31 pages. Prepared for a conference on the common good to be held at the Gregorian Univ in Rome.

"The 1986 School Aid Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution: The Background and the Issues," Aug., 1986, 67 pages. Written in response to the request of Daniel Hart, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston.

"Comments on the Bishops' Draft Letter on the Economy," Jan., 1985, 48 pages. Prepared at the request of Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Boston critiquing the first draft of the economics pastoral.

"A Process Evaluation of the Implementation of the Skills Training Improvement Program in Gardner Mass.," Boston College Working, (1980).

"NAB and the Jobs Program, Part II," Nov., 1970, 78 pages.

"NAB and the Jobs Program, Part I," July, 1969, 72 pages.

Current Research:

Irish Industrial Relations.