Gordon, Andrew D.
GORDON, Andrew D.
GORDON, Andrew D. American, b. 1952. Genres: History, Area studies. Career: Harvard University, assistant professor, 1981-87, associate professor, 1987-91, professor of history, 1995-, director of Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, 1998-; Duke University, Durham, NC, professor of history, 1991-95. Member, Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the Social Science Research Council. Publications: The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955, 1985; Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan, 1991; The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan, 1998; A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to Present, 2002. EDITOR: Postwar Japan as History, 1993; (and trans. with M. Hane) Kumazawa Makoto, Portraits of the Japanese Workplace, 1996; (and trans with T. Boardman) Nimura Kazuo, The Ashio Riot of 1907, 1997; (co-) Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, 2000; coeditor of a series of books on comparative and international labor history. Contributor to books about Japanese life, politics, and history. Address: Reischauer Institute, Coolidge Hall 319, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: agordon@fas.harvard.edu