Stephen Herzenberg holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and is an economist and executive director emeritus at Keystone Research Center (KRC).
He is also the co-director of ReImagine Appalachia. In his 40-year career, Steve’s research has focused on the U.S. and global auto industry; the rise of the service-dominated new economy and how to achieve shared prosperity within it; the challenges unions face adapting to the new economy; workforce and economic development; state-level industrial policy; and industry studies, including of manufacturing, construction, early childhood education, and long-term care. and state policy issues generally.
Before KRC, Steve worked at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and served as assistant to the chief US negotiator of the labor side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Steve’s publications from Keystone Research Center are mostly online at www.keystoneresearch.org. His publications for national audiences include a chapter on “Decent Work” in in Governing for Sustainability, 20223; a chapter on how the labor movement might grow again in Many Futures of Work, Temple University Press, 2021; analysis of policies required to socialize the cost to fossil fuel workers of a transition to net zero in Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization, 2019; Towards an AI Economy That Works All, 2019; New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America, Cornell/ILR press, 1998; and U.S.-Mexico Trade: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, September 1992.