A prolific scholar of labor and discrimination law, William B. Gould IV has been an influential voice on worker- management relations for more than forty years and served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Professor Gould has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970 and has arbitrated and mediated more than 200 labor disputes, including the 1992 and 1993 salary disputes between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee. He currently serves as independent Monitor for FirstGroup America, addressing freedom of association complaints.
A critically acclaimed author of nine books and more than sixty law review articles, Professor Gouldâs work includes his historical record of the experiences of his great-grandfather in Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, and his own Washington story, Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB: A Memoir.
Professor Gould's web site is: http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/26/
Professor Gould will read from his book at Books, inc in Mountain View, CA at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27. Here's the link for the event: http://booksinc.net/event/william-b-gould-iv-mountain-view
He will also be at the Berkeley Institute of Labor Relations on Oct. 4 The institute's address and other details are listed here: http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/contact_irle.html
His reading at the Stanford University Bookstore will be at 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. on Wednesday Oct 5, 2011. Here's the link to the details about the event:
http://events.stanford.edu/events/287/28755/
Professor William B. Gould IV, KZSU, Byrd of Paradise