Here is the dull resume stuff roughly in chronological order -- formal education, career-track employment, etc. My publications are listed under the menu items The New Economy and The Economics of Underdevelopment.
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1964. English major.
- 1965 to 1967: Peace Corps Volunteer, Pernambuco, Brazil. Worked with sugar workers' union and consumer cooperative.
- M.S., University of Florida, Gainesville, 1969. Agricultural Economics. Major areas were development economics and Brazilian studies. Funded by research grant from the UF Center for Tropical Agriculture.
- Post M.S. graduate work at Stanford University, 1969 to 1970. Food Research Institute (development economics program). Funded by a full fellowship.
- 1970 to 1976: Full-time staff position as Research Director and Field Representative, Local 715, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO (San Jose, California). Duties included negotiating labor agreements with public sector employers, organizing, grievance representation, lobbying, steward training and editing union publications.
- 1974 to 1976: Taught courses designed for union stewards in Labor Studies program at San Jose City College (California)
- 1976 to 1978: Additional graduate work at University of Washington. Economics Department. Labor economics and economic history. Funded by a teaching assistantship.
- 1979 to present: Bellevue Community College. Full-time economics instructor.
- 1987-90: Adjunct Instructor, University of Washington, Economics Department. Taught Economic History, Economics of Underdevelopment, and Labor Economics.
- Languages: Portuguese, some Spanish. Both rusty at present.