Professor Emeritus

University of Wisconsin-Madison

88 Oak Creek Trail
Madison, WI 53717-1510

HOME: (608) 833-3277
EMAIL: slevine@facstaff.wisc.edu

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INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  business administration and management; comparative business management; development; human resource management; labor and labor relations; multinational corporations; personnel training; union-management relations
• EDUCATION
  skills acquisition
• HISTORY
  early modern and modern history; history of trade unions
• LAW
  immigration labor law; labor law
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  labor policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  organizations and institutions; technology and social change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Professor of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969-89; Director, East Asian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969-85; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois, 1949-69.

IN JAPAN: 1989-91 - visiting professor and research; 1953-54 - Fulbright; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Education and Labor Skills in Postwar Japan," (with Taira) Japanese Educational Productivity (ed. Leestma et al.) (University of Michigan, 1992); "Japan's External Economic Relations: Japanese Perspectives," (ed. with Taria) The ANNALS (American Academy of Political and Science, 1991); Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development (with Kawada) (Princeton University Press, 1980); Workers and Employers in Japan: The Japanese Employment Relations System (ed. with Okochi et al.) (Tokyo University Press and Princeton Press, 1973).