Jonathan Zeitlin, Faculty Associate

Jonathan Zeitlin (Ph.D. Warwick, M.A. Cambridge, B.A. Harvard) is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, and Director of the European Union Center, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written widely on current and historical developments in economic organization, industrial relations, and public policy in Europe and the United States. His most recent books are Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (Oxford, 2003), Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking U.S. Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (Oxford, 2000), and World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (Cambridge, 1997). A Faculty Associate at COWS since 1992, Jonathan helped to set up the Manufacturing Jobs With a Future Partnership, and is currently working on industrial supply chains and regional economic development policies through the Advanced Manufacturing Project.

Email:jzeitlin at wisc.edu
Tel:  608.263.7564