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 CLARK
KERR (1911-2003)
Clark Kerr, who created the blueprint for public higher education
in the United States while president of the University of California
system in the 1950s and 1960s, died Tuesday, December 2 in El
Cerrito, California at the age of 92.
Kerr received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
California in 1939, served in various capacities on the War
Labor Board from 1942-1947, and was the first director (1945-1952)
of the Institute of Industrial Relations (now the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) at U.C. Berkeley. Kerr
went on to serve as Berkeley chancellor (1952-1958) and UC President
(1958-1967). According to his editorial assistant Maureen Kawaoka,
"Despite the fact that his career path took him in the
direction of higher education administration, his true passion
has always been the study of labor economics and industrial
societies."
Dr. Kerr also had a long career working directly in union issues,
including serving as the Impartial Chairman of the Pacific Coast
and International Longshoremen's and Warehouseman's Union 1946-1947,
Contract Arbitrator between the California Processors and Growers
and the California State Council of Cannery Unions 1953-1958,
the Public Review Board of the United Auto Workers of America
1957-1959, and Chairman on the Board of Arbitrators between
the United Postal Service and the National Association of Letter
Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union in 1984. He also
received the Labor-Management Award in 1989 from the Work in
America Institute.
His labor-related publications started in 1934 with journal
articles on self-help cooperatives coauthored with Paul S. Taylor
and went on to include such standards as Unions, Management
and the Public (Harcourt Brace, 1948, 1960, 1967), Industrialism
and Industrial Man (with John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison,
and Charles Myers, Harvard University Press, 1960), and How
Labor Markets Work: Reflections on Theory and Practice (with
John Dunlop, Richard Lester, and Lloyd Reynolds, Lexington Books,
1988).
The U.C. Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
recently received a generous donation of more than 500 books
from the personal collection of Clark Kerr. These titles represent
a lifetime of study, scholarship, and publishing in several
fields associated with labor and industrial relations. To acknowledge
this gift, the IRLE library designed and printed a special bookplate
created by librarian Lincoln Cushing. The bookplate may be seen
at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/Library/KerrPlate.html
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