Family and Social Policy

Ray Marshall interviewed for The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers’ Video History Project

February 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

In 1999, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers embarked on a video history project to develop a video library dedicated to creating a repository of oral histories of distinguished individuals who played a significant role or who had an opportunity to observe milestone events relating to labor and employment law. All of the full-length video interviews and transcripts are archived at Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library.

On November 29, 2018, the College’s producer (Carol Rosenbaum) and crew videotaped an interview with Former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall at the Center. Ana Avendano, Vice President of Labor Engagement for United Way Worldwide, interviewed Secretary Marshall, who spoke animatedly for 4 hours, and never seemed to tire! An excerpt from the interview can be seen below.

Interview topics included:

His childhood in the orphanage
The role of the Labor Secretary
His role in President Carter’s policy-setting
Ensuring OSHA worked as it should
Management attitudes towards safety and health regulations
Programs he developed to assist women and minorities entering the workforce in large numbers for the first time – especially those who wanted to work in male-dominated industries (like coal mining)
Outreach apprenticeships and affirmative action
His efforts to bring African-Americans into construction apprenticeship programs
International matters under Carter
His involvement in international work, including pulling the United States out of the International Labour Organization (because of a disagreement with the Russians)
His work on immigration, including during the Carter administration and with the AFL – CIO 30 years later
The role independent trade unions play in a democracy – and how authoritarian governments are the enemy of labor movements
Strikes during his tenure
Labor unions today
President Trump’s policies

You can view the transcript of the full interview here , and a summary of the transcript can be viewed here. Credit for the video excerpt, transcript, and transcript summary go to The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Dr. Prince and team participate in initiative supporting RMC’s behavioral economics intervention in Northern Jordan

September 17, 2018 Leave a Comment

On February 20th and 21st of this year, Dr. Heath Prince led his research team’s participation in the official launch workshop for the initiative supporting the Ray Marshall Center’s behavioral economics intervention in Northern Jordan with support from Jordan University for Science and Technology (JUST). The project is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and is one of several similar experiments in a larger initiative supported by Share-Net Jordan and Share-Net International to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The aim of the workshop was to facilitate acquaintance, networking, and linking, both among the projects as well as between the projects, Share-Net Jordan, and Share-Net International. The workshop also encouraged further exchange, learning, and cooperation among parties. The focus was on academic issues and research uptake. The academic issues consisted of sharing experiences and challenges concerning theoretical and methodological approaches; dealing with sensitivities around SRHR and the security situation (risk assessment); and reviewing how to measure progress towards expected output/outcomes. Research uptake centered around using results in policy and practice; analyzing essential elements that ensure research uptake; detailing the Impact Pathway; determining (strategies for) stakeholder engagement; and communication and measuring progress towards expected output/outcomes. The workshop facilitated the connecting of people and helped to identify common themes and challenges for further actions (workshops, joint publications, joint seminar, etc.), as well as for learning from each other. The workshop also yielded insights for ‘projects’ on how to improve their communication/research uptake plans and provided ideas on how Share-Net can further assist the projects in reaching out to the wider (policy & practice) community. The RMC/JUST experiment runs through December of 2018, with final reports due in August of 2019.

To read more about RMC’s collaboration with NWO and JUST, please visit the project page.

Principal Investigator:	Daniel Schroeder, PhD
Sponsor:	Texas Workforce Commission
Project Duration:	May 2019 – April 2022
Description:	Researchers from the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will conduct a study of the cost of providing quality child care in the state of Texas, the purpose of which is to provide estimates of how much more additional funding, in terms of daily rates, should be paid to providers who meet quality standards to care for children, relative to how much providers who do not meet such standards are paid. The study will be done in conjunction with the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing (TICFW), who will be responsible for consulting on the design of a pair of surveys to capture important quality factors and pricing information, and fielding the surveys to carefully selected samples of home- and center-based child care facilities.
Reports Available:	The reports for this project are published through the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing at the University of Texas at Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work. The following reports are available on their website. 2021 Texas Child Care Cost of Quality Modeling Report

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