Title

Interview with John Beck

Authors

Michael Hillard, University of Southern MaineFollow

Streaming Media

Additional Streaming Media

Date of Interview

1-29-2003

Duration of Audio File

Audio file #1 00:46:21; Audio file #2 00:36:03

Interviewee

John Beck

Age

Born approximately 1955; aged 47 or 48 at time of interview.

Gender

Male

Occupation/ Work History

United Paperworkers International Union official and labor relations expert on faculty of Michigan State University

Role

Union

Mill or Principal Employer

S. D. Warren

Mill Location

Westbrook, Maine

Keywords

United Paperworkers International Union, Labor-Management Cooperation, Jointness, High Performance Work Systems, Paper mills - Maine, Scott Paper, S.D.Warren - Maine

Abstract

John Beck (1991-2015) has been a professor and director of Labor Education at Michigan State University. Beck was United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) Education and Research Director, 1986-1991. This interview contains a wealth of Beck's experience and insight about critical labor relations' developments in the period when he was at UPIU.

Comments

Tape 1: Key leader of Scott Paper Company labor relations initiative for paper workers union in the 1980s. Observations on International Paper Stike at Jay, Maine in 1987- 1988. Maine Paper Industry labor relations in the 1980s and 1990s

Tape 2: Key leader of Scott Paper Company labor relations initiative for paper workers union in the 1980s

Document Type

Interview

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Recommended Citation

John Beck, interview by Michael Hillard, January 29, 2003, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine