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Myron Joseph Collection
Myron L. Joseph was born and raised in New York City. He graduated in 1942 from the City College of New York with an economics degree. He then worked briefly as an economist for the War Production Board and as an inspector for the U.S. Army Ordinance and served as a radar officer in the Army Air Corps from 1943-1946. After the war he earned his masters degree in labor economics from Columbia University in 1947, then going on to earn a doctorate in economics, labor economics, and law from the University of Wisconsin in 1953, where he taught while a graduate student. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in 1948, eventually gaining a full professorship in 1964. He had remained a professor at Carnegie Mellon until 1981, as Professor of Economic and Industrial Administration at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, 1972-75, and Chairman of the Department of Administration and Management Science, 1964-72.
Joseph is a well-known expert on industrial relations, now living and working in California. He was a senior staff economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisors from June 1963 to September 1964, and advised on the impact of the administration's policies on wages, employment, and labor relations. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator; designed and was chairman of the first United Steelworkers of America program for international representatives at Penn State University in 1960.
Other positions that Myron Joseph held include, Regional Chairman of the National Academy of Arbitration, member of World-at-work Economics Education Advisory Board of the Joint Council, former member (1966-1977) of the National Manpower Policy Task Force, member (1969-1976) of Upjohn Institute's Research Advisory Committee on Unemployment Insurance. He was on arbitration panels of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the American Arbitration Association and he has advised the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry of Pennsylvania in 1979. He has also acted as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Urban League (1966-1972) and Director of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
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