Goldberg, Joseph P(hilip) 1918-2002
GOLDBERG, Joseph P(hilip) 1918-2002
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born May 1, 1918, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a heart attack December 4, 2002, in Rockville, MD. Economist and author. Goldberg was an expert in labor history, especially maritime labor relations, and a longtime assistant to the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He graduated with a B.S.S. from what is now the City College of the City University of New York in 1937, and then earned a master's degree in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1950 from Columbia University. Goldberg's first job was as a high school teacher in New York City before World War II. During the war he was an economist for the national War Labor Board in Washington, D.C. He remained in Washington after the war to work as a labor specialist for a year at the Public Affairs Institute and then at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where he was a labor economist. With the exception of two years during the early 1950s when he was at the Wage Stabilization Board and Office of Economic Stabilization, Goldberg remained at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, serving as special assistant to the commissioner until 1986. He was the author of The Maritime Story (1958) and coauthor of such books as Collective Bargaining and Productivity (1975) and The First Five Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1985).
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