Gary Chaison

Gary Chaison is professor of industrial relations at the Graduate School of Management of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Before coming to Clark 25 years ago, Professor Chaison was on the faculty of the School of Administration of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in industrial relations from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has been the areas of union structure, government and growth, collective...See more

Gary Chaison is professor of industrial relations at the Graduate School of Management of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Before coming to Clark 25 years ago, Professor Chaison was on the faculty of the School of Administration of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in industrial relations from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has been the areas of union structure, government and growth, collective bargaining, and international labor relations. He has published extensively on the determinants of union growth in the United States and Canada, and the causes and consequences of union mergers in the United States as well as several other countries. Professor Chaison is the co-author of Unions and Legitimacy (Cornell, 2002) and the author of Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries (Cornell 1996) and When Unions Merge (Lexington, 1986), as well as a number of articles in industrial relations journals. Recently, he has written about the impact of information technology on unions, the prospects for union revival, and the behavioral dimensions of union mergers. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in human resource management, industrial relations, international labor relations, discrimination in employment, the contemporary workplace, and collective bargaining. See less