John Bertram Andrews

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John Bertram Andrews

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

Background[edit]

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

Career[edit]

Andrews taught economics at both the University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth College.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Works[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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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