Bruce Pietrykowski
Research Scientist
Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy (IRLEE)
Bruce Pietrykowski, Ph.D. is currently Professor of Economics and Director of the Urban and Regional Studies Program. He researches urban environment with a background that is not strictly transport or mobility history. Bruce was granted his Master’s and Ph.D. in economics at the New School with a brief detour through the city planning program at Cornell University. He returned to the Midwest to Detroit and the University of Michigan campus in Dearborn. Bruce was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage.
Fields of Research Specialization
- Labor Economics – low wage work, caring labor, service sector work, wage inequality, social movement
- Economic Geography – community economies, spatial inequality, spaces of consumption and retail
- Political Economy – contested exchange, market failure, social construction of markets
- Economic Thought and Methodology – heterodox economics, epistemology, participatory action research
Teaching Fields
- Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Statistics, Macroeconomics, Heterodox
- Economics, Economic Geography
Education
- B.A. Rutgers University, 1981 (Paul Robeson Scholar)
- M.A. Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1983 (with honors)
- Ph.D. Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1990