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Victor Devinatz

Distinguished Professor of Management
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Biography

Dr. Victor G. Devinatz is Distinguished Professor of Management and the Hobart and Marian Gardner Hinderliter Endowed Professor (2014-2015) in the Department of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University where he teaches courses in labor relations, human resource management and conflict management/dispute resolution. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in qualitative research in a wide variety of labor relations and employment relations topics where he utilizes ethnographic, oral history and archival research methodologies.

In 2003, Dr. Devinatz was a recipient of a Merl E. Reed Research Fellowship in Southern Labor History. In addition, in 2005, Dr. Devinatz won the Illinois State University Outstanding Researcher Award. In 2004 and 1999, he was named a Caterpillar Faculty Scholar; he received the College of Business Research Award in 2010, 2003 and 1997 and was the recipient of a University Research Initiative Award in 1994.

In a widely distributed Associated Press article in March 1999, Dr. Devinatz’s scholarly book, High-Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor (Michigan State University Press, 1999), was recognized as the first industrial ethnography to chronicle assembly work in a high-tech environment, specifically that of a low-wage medical electronics factory. In addition, Dr. Devinatz has published (or are forthcoming) over 125 journal articles, chapters in edited volumes and essays in specialized encyclopedias. In academic journals, he has published 90 articles in outlets such as Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Labour/Le Travail, Labor History, Industrial Relations, Science & Society, Journal of Labor Research, Labor Studies Journal, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, and Labor Law Journal, among others. Dr. Devinatz’s articles also have appeared in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society; The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, and Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004, among other scholarly encyclopedias. He also has published op-ed articles that have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Dr. Devinatz’s comments concerning current labor relations issues have been cited in articles in a number of international and national news publications including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Asia Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, USA Today, the Bureau of National Affairs Daily Labor Report, Bureau of National Affairs Employment Discrimination Report, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He currently is the Editor of Labor Studies Journal as well as the Editor of the Perspectives Section in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. Dr. Devinatz currently writes a periodic labor column for StreetWise, a Chicago-based newspaper. Two of his StreetWise articles, “Why We Need Unemployed Man Now More Than Ever” and “The Sharing Economy and Its Discontents,” have been picked up by the International Network of Street Papers. In 2015, Dr. Devinatz became a certified mediator through the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago.

Current Courses

MGT 324.001 Industrial Relations Management

MGT 498.001 Professional Practice: Intern/Coop Ed In Management

MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship In Management

MGT 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship/Cooperative Education In Business Administration

MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Coop Ed In Business Administration

MGT 298.001 Professional Practice:Internship/Cooperative Ed In Management

PhD Industrial Relations

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

MS Labor Studies

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

MA Physical Education

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Other Physical Education

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Grants & Contracts

A Theory of CIO Shop Floor Unionism: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941-1981. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (1993)
Political Radicalism in the American Trade Union Movement from 1930 - 1955. Carlson School of Management Honors. (1990)
Doctoral Dissertation Research at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. (1989)
Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant. University of Minnesota Graduate School. (1989)
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship. Industrial Relations Center. (1989)
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship. Industrial Relations Center. (1988)
The Effect on Collective Bargaining of the Partial Sale of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway to Blackstone Capital Partners L.P.. Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Engineers. (1988)
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship. Industrial Relations Center. (1987)
Industrial Relations Departmental Fellowship. Industrial Relations Center. (1986)

Book Review

Devinatz, V. Book Review of Immanuel Ness, Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labor Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries. Labor Studies Journal, 49.3 (2024): 272-274.
Devinatz, V. Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management. Administrative Science Quarterly (2023)

Book, Authored

Devinatz, V. High Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor. Michigan State University Press (1999)

Book, Chapter

Devinatz, V. The Role of Labor Education in Revaluing Workers: Historical, Current and Future. 2021 Labor and Employment Relations Association Research Volume. Cornell University Press (2021): 179-198.
Devinatz, V. Alliance for Labor Action. M. Dubofsky (EDs), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. Change to Win Federation. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. Living Wage. M. Dubofsky (EDs), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. Right to Work Laws. M. Dubofsky (EDs), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. Trade Union Educational League-Trade Union Unity League. M. Dubofsky (EDs), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. World Federation of Trade Unions. M. Dubofsky (EDs), The Oxford Encylopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History. Oxford University Press (2013)
Devinatz, V. Gender Integration of Work Force Since WWII. F. Nadis and J. Waskey (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present. ABC-CLIO Press (2011): 470-471.
Devinatz, V. Industrial Safety and Labor. F. Nadis and J. Waskey (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present. ABC-CLIO Press (2011): 478-479.
Devinatz, V. Industrial Unions. J.H. Overfield (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914. ABC-CLIO Press (2011): 707-708.
Devinatz, V. Sweatshops. F. Nadis and J. Waskey (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present. ABC-CLIO Press (2011)
Devinatz, V. Trade Unions. J.H. Overfield (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914. ABC-CLIO Press (2011): 705-706.
Devinatz, V. U.S. Labor Unions, Post-Industrial Era. F. Nadis and J. Waskey (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945 - Present. ABC-CLIO Press (2011)
Devinatz, V. Unionism. H. Micheal Tarver (EDs), Encyclopedia of World History, Era 8: Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945. ABC-CLIO Press (2011): 152-153.
Devinatz, V. Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934. Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, (EDs), The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. M.E. Sharpe (2009): 166-173.
Devinatz, V. Anarchism. E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class. Routledge (2007): 102-105.
Devinatz, V. Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union. E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge (2007): 206-208.
Devinatz, V. Communist Party, USA. G.L. Anderson, K. Herr (EDs), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Sage (2007): 371-372.
Devinatz, V. Electromation v. Teamsters Local 1094. E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge (2007): 399-400.
Devinatz, V. Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Union. E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge (2007): 437-439.
Devinatz, V. Lovestone, Jay (1897-1990). E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge (2007): 827-828.
Devinatz, V. May Day. G.L. Anderson, K. Herr (EDs), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Sage (2007): 918-920.
Devinatz, V. PATCO Strike. G.L. Anderson, K. Herr (EDs), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Sage (2007): 1096-1098.
Devinatz, V. Socialist Labor Party. E. Arnesen (EDs), Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge (2007): 1279-1281.
Devinatz, V. Trotskyism. G.L. Anderson, K. Herr (EDs), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Sage (2007): 1396-1398.
Devinatz, V. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. S.A. Reich (EDs), The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Greenwood Publishing Company (2006): 433-434.
Devinatz, V. Socialists and Socialism. S.A. Reich (EDs), The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Greenwood Publishing Company (2006): 783-785.
Devinatz, V. Taylorism. Merriman and Winter (EDs), Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004. Charles Scribner's Sons (2006)
Devinatz, V. The National War Labor Board. S.A. Reich (EDs), The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Greenwood Publishing Company (2006): 598-599.
Devinatz, V. Labor, 1946-Present. J.P. Resch (EDs), Americans at War Encyclopedia. Macmillan Reference USA (2004)
Devinatz, V. Communism in the U.S. Trade Union Movement. C.E. Van Horn and H.A. Schaffner (EDs), Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society. ABC-Clio Press (2003): 89-93.
Devinatz, V. George Meany. C.E. Van Horn and H.A. Schaffner (EDs), Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Vol. 1; A-M. ABC-Clio Press (2003): 348-350.
Devinatz, V. Industrial Workers of the World. C.E. Van Horn and H.A. Schaffner (EDs), Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Vol. 1: A-M. ABC-Clio Press (2003): 291-293.
Devinatz, V. U.S. Labor and industrial Relations Historiography: A Review Essay. C.E. Van Horn and H.E. Schaffner (EDs), Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society, Volume 1: A-M. ABC-Clio Press (2003): xxviii-xxxviii.
Devinatz, V. The Future of Unions in a Changing Economy. G.R. Ferris, M.R. Buckley & D. Fedor (EDs), Human Resource Management. Prentice Hall (2002): 383-398.
Devinatz, V. An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946-1952. C. Bina, L. Clements, and C. Davis (EDs), Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. (1996): 145-160.

Conference Proceeding

Devinatz, V. The Changing Scope of Union Organizing in the United States in the Early Twenty-First Century. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2007): 25-31.
Devinatz, V. Testing the Johnston 'Public Sector Union Strike Success Hypothesis' on Illinois Firefighter Strikes, 1968-1980. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2006): 28-33.
Devinatz, V. Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2005): 15-20.
Devinatz, V. High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2004): 80-85.
Devinatz, V. Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a Medical Electronics Factory. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2003): 17-22.
Devinatz, V. The Latino Gellers' Wildcat Strike at the Biomedical Electronics Corporation. North American Management Society (2003)
Devinatz, V. A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on The Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program For Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (2002): 27-32.
Devinatz, V. Struggling Against the Culture of Competition: The Attempt to Organize a Faculty Union at a Public University. Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations (2001): 119-139.
Devinatz, V. 'Glorified Messengers for Management' or 'Legitimate Unionism'? Analyzing Local Independent Unions in the Post Company Union Era. Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations (2000): 34-47.
Devinatz, V. Analyzing the Core of Labor Process Theory: The Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor. Association on Employment Practices and Principles (1999): 1-5.
Devinatz, V. Imagine That: A Wildcat at Biomed!: Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunionized Medical Electronics Factory. Midwest Society for Human Resources/Industrial Relations (1999): 11- 20.
Devinatz, V. Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1998): 90-92.
Devinatz, V. When Unaffiliated Unions Compete Against Each Other in Multi Union Elections: A Preliminary Analysis. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1997): 130-132.
Devinatz, V. The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos-¬Abatement Workers. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1996): 80-20.
Devinatz, V. NLRB Cases Concerning Union Shop Deauthorization Elections. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1995)
Devinatz, V. An Exploratory Investigation of Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions in Multiple Union Elections. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1994): 34-36.
Devinatz, V. A New Program For Managing Shop Floor Labor Relations: The International Harvester Corporation and the New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964. Midwest Academy of Management (1993): 215-221.
Devinatz, V. The Changing Scope of Union Organizing: A Typology of Organizing Trends. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1993): 110-112.
Devinatz, V. Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1993): 67-69.
Devinatz, V. A Study in the Development of Trade Union Bureaucratization: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941 1981. Industrial Relations Research Association (1992): 450-457.
Devinatz, V. Public Sector Unions That Organize Private Sector Workers: The Changing Scope of Union Organizing. Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar (1992): 41-43.

Instructor's Manual

Devinatz, V. Testing the Johnston "Public Sector Union Strike Success' Hypothesis: A Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 26.2 (1997): 99-112.

Journal Article

Devinatz, V. Biographies of US and British Twentieth-Century Leftists: From Early US Cultural Leftism to Stalinism. Socialist History (2025): 85-95.
Devinatz, V. Class Dealignment, Multiracial Workers, and Labor’s Future After Trump’s Reelection. Labor Studies Journal 50.2 (2025): 166-174.
Devinatz, V. Labor’s Struggle under Fordist and Post-Fordist Industrial Relations Systems in the 20th and the 21st Centuries. Journal of Labor and Society 28.2 (2025): 303-323.
Devinatz, V. The Two Faces of Union Salting. No. Labor Law Journal 75.1 (2024): 5-13.
Devinatz, V. The War on the North American Left-Wing Labor Movement From World War I Through the Post-World War II Period. No. Labor Studies Journal 49.1 (2024): 60-82.
Devinatz, V. The International Brotherhood Welfare Association: An Unexamined Organization of the Early 20th Century Hobo Labor Movement. Labor Law Journal 74.1 (2023): 5-11.
Devinatz, V. Trade Union Lessons from Early US Trotskyism and US Communism. American Communist History 22.1-2 (2023): 68-84.
Devinatz, V. US Communists as Early Social Movement Unionists Circa 1930 to 1956?. No.. Journal of Labor and Society 25.3 (2022): 395-413.
Devinatz, V. US Labor Institutionalism’s Rise and Decline and the Death of US Industrial Relations. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 34.3 (2022): 319-333.
Devinatz, V. Union Democracy, Union Bureaucracy, and the Left. No.. Labor Studies Journal 47.2 (2022): 137-148.
Devinatz, V. Before "Banana Time": Donald Roy on Labor, Economic Activities, Unemployment Duration and Politico-Economic Attitudes of Seattle Hooverville Residents. Labor Law Journal 72.1 (2021): 50-56.
Devinatz, V. The Labor Party Question: Rethinking American Exceptionalism, the CPUSA’s Role and CPUSA-Led/Influenced Trade Union Activity Circa 1936 to 1955. American Communist History 20.1-2 (2021): 95 - 107.
Devinatz, V. Interpreting the Communist Party USA’s Historical Role in the US Trade Unions: Insights from the Early Institutionalist Theory of Industrial Relations. International Critical Thought 10.1 (2020): 138-149.
Devinatz, V. The First International, the US Left and British Trotskyism: Their Relevance to Trade Unions and Workers. American Communist History 19.1-2 (2020): 132-142.
Devinatz, V. A U.S. Woman Industrial Relations Pioneer and "Mother of Arbitration": The Life and Times of Jean T. McKelvey. Labor Law Journal 70.1 (2019): 64-74.
Devinatz, V. Left-Wing SPA-Led and CPUSA-Led Unions and Worker Organizations as the Vanguard of U.S. Social Democracy's Left-Wing, Circa 1935 to 1950. Labor Studies Journal 44.1 (2019): 60-78.
Devinatz, V. The CPUSA's Trade Unionism during Third Period Communism, 1929–1934. American Communist History 18.3-4 (2019): 251-268.
Devinatz, V. Trade unions, Communities and Struggles: US Sit-down Strikes and Their Potential: From the Committee for Industrial Organisation to the Age of Austerity. Theory & Struggle 119 (2018): 100-106.
Devinatz, V. What Makes a Good Mediator? Insights from a Mediation Training Program Participant. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 30.3 (2018): 181-201.
Devinatz, V. Donald Trump, George Wallace, and the White Working Class. Labor Studies Journal 42.3 (2017): 233-238.
Devinatz, V. Organizing College Athletes Utilizing the Civil Rights Unionism Model. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 29.3 (2017): 107-125.
Devinatz, V. Interpreting US Left History in the Age of Neoliberalism and the War on Terror. American Communist History 15.2 (2016): 231-242.
Devinatz, V. Waukegan's Fansteel Sit-Down Strike and the End of Industrial Militancy. Illinois Heritage 19.1 (2016): 30-34.
Devinatz, V. "An Open Letter to Eugene V. Debs": Debs' Relationship to the US Communists circa 1919 to 1924. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 18.2 (2015): 267-289.
Devinatz, V. Feeling the Heat: An Analysis of Illinois Firefighter Strikes, 1968-1980. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 27.3 (2015): 181-194.
Devinatz, V. Right-to-Work Laws, the Southernization of U.S. Labor Relations and the U.S. Trade Union Movement's Decline. Labor Studies Journal 30.4 (2015): 297-318.
Devinatz, V. Why Politics Should Not Be Liberated From Collective Bargaining: Problems with the Unbundled Union Regime. Labor Law Journal 66.2 (2015): 99-110.
Devinatz, V. Red Unionism during the Depression and under McCarthyism: Reflections on Mine-Mill, the Workers Unity League and the Minneapolis Teamsters. American Communist History 13.2/3 (2014): 189-198.
Devinatz, V. A Cold War Thaw in the International Working Class Movement? The World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1967-1977. Science & Society 77.3 (2013): 342-371.
Devinatz, V. Organizing Workfare Workers as Contingent Employees: Lessons from the New York City. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 25.1 (2013): 1-21.
Devinatz, V. The Crisis of US Trade Unionism and What Needs to Be Done. Labor Law Journal 64.1 (2013): 5-19.
Devinatz, V. The Hawthorne Studies: Illuminating the Psychology of Industrial Workers. Illinois Heritage 16.3 (2013): 16-20.
Devinatz, V. The Significance of the Living Wage for US Workers in the Early Twenty-First Century. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 25.2 (2013): 25-34.
Devinatz, V. Investigating the Unexplored Margins of US Communist Trade Union Historiography, circa 1926-1959. Socialist History (2012): 77-90.
Devinatz, V. Radical Labor in Illinois: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, 1938-1955. Illinois Heritage 15.1 (2012): 34-38.
Devinatz, V. Reevaluating US Company Paternalism from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries. Labor History 53.2 (2012): 305-310.
Devinatz, V. Robert J. Alexander's U.S. Left-Wing Interview Collection and Archaeology of Dissident Communism. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 15.2 (2012): 153-175.
Devinatz, V. Struggling against US Labor's Decline under Late Capitalism: Lessons for the Early 21st Century. Science & Society 76.3 (2012): 393-405.
Devinatz, V. The Attack on US Public Sector Unionism in the Age of Austerity. Labor Law Journal 63.1 (2012): 5-21.
Devinatz, V. The Continuing Controversy over Right-to-Work Laws in the Early Twenty-First Century. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 23.4 (2011): 287-293.
Devinatz, V. U.S. Trade Unionism under Globalization: The Death of Voluntarism and the Turn to Politics?. Labor Law Journal 62.1 (2011): 16-29.
Devinatz, V. Does the Change to Win Federation Represent U.S. Labor's Third Moment? Evidence from National Labor Relations Board Certification Elections, 2003-2005. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 22.3 (2010): 161-173.
Devinatz, V. John Sweeney's Legacy and the Future of the AFL-CIO. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 13.2 (2010): 281-296.
Devinatz, V. The Rogue Employer Thesis Revisited: The Fallacy Behind the Center for Union Facts' Union Math, Union Myths. Labor Law Journal 61.1 (2010): 15-24.
Devinatz, V. Union Solidarity, Collective Struggle and the Caterpillar Labor Dispute, 1991-1998. Science & Society 74.4 (2010): 546-553.
Devinatz, V. Filling in the Interstices of U.S. Communist Trade Union Historiography during the Ages of Labor Radicalism and McCarthyism. American Communist History 9.2 (2009): 211-224.
Devinatz, V. The Death of the 'Old Labor Movement' and the Birth of the New: Revitalizing U.S. Labor in the Early 21st Century. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 12.1 (2009): 143-158.
Devinatz, V. The United Auto Workers Union as American Vanguard, 1935 to 1970: Reality or Illusion?. Science & Society 73.3 (2009): 403-410.
Devinatz, V. A Cold War at International Harvester: The Shachtmanites and the Farm Equipment Workers Union's Demise, 1946 - 1955. Science & Society 72.2 (2008): 182-207.
Devinatz, V. David Dubinsky, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and the Limits of Social Democratic Trade Unionism. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 22.1 (2008): 67-78.
Devinatz, V. Frank P. Zeidler's Views on Public Sector Labor Relations as Milwaukee's Last Socialist Mayor,1948-1960. Journal of Collective Negotiations 31.4 (2008): 319-332.
Devinatz, V. McCarthyism on the Charles: The Life and Times of Labour Historian Ray Ginger before and After His Dismissal from Harvard University. Left History 13.2 (2008): 128-150.
Devinatz, V. Rational Self-Interest, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Unionization Campaign Support. Journal of Collective Negotiations 32.2 (2008): 89-95.
Devinatz, V. Reading Communist Biographies: The Birth of American Communism, International Communism through the Cold War's Early Years and the New Communist Movement. Left History 12.2 (2008): 136-145.
Devinatz, V. Social Movement Unionism and U.S. Labor's Uncertain Future. Journal of Collective Negotiations 32.3 (2008): 181-191.
Devinatz, V. Union Organizing Trends and the Question of Post-Industrial Unionism in the Early 21st Century. Labor Law Journal 59.3 (2008): 265-270.
Devinatz, V. A Reevaluation of the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934. Science & Society 71.1 (2007): 33-58.
Devinatz, V. Fighting for a 'Better, More Beautiful World': New York's Yiddish Socialists Circa 1880 to 1920 and International Communist Parties' Third Period Politics, 1928 - 1935. American Communist History 6.2 (2007): 209-219.
Devinatz, V. Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 19.1 (2007): 1-15.
Devinatz, V. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: The Theory and Practice of Building a Red Industrial Union during Third Period Communism, 1929-1935. Nature, Society and Thought 19.3 (2007): 261-294.
Devinatz, V. Trade Unions as Instruments of Social Change: Does Ideology Matter?. WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 10.4 (2007): 497-508.
Devinatz, V. 'We Had a Utopia in the Union': James Wright, the Farm Equipment Workers Union and the Struggle for Civil Rights Unionism in Postwar Louisville, 1946-1952. Nature, Society and Thought 20.3-4 (2007): 261-278.
Devinatz, V. 'Glorified Messengers for Management' or 'Legitimate Unionism'? An Analysis of Local Independent Unions in the Post-Company Union Era. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 18.4 (2006): 231-247.
Devinatz, V. To Find Answers to the Urgent Problems of Our Society: The Alliance for Labor Action's Atlanta Union Organizing Offensive, 1969-1971. Labor Studies Journal 31.2 (2006): 69-91.
Devinatz, V. A Heroic Defeat: The Caterpillar Labor Dispute and the UAW, 1991-1998. Labor Studies Journal 30.1 (2005): 1-18.
Devinatz, V. An Analysis of Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League after the Passage of the National Industrial recovery Act, 1933-1934. Nature, Society and Thought 18.2 (2005): 205-217.
Devinatz, V. High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 17.3 (2005): 143 - 160.
Devinatz, V. Kusterer or Manwaring and Wood on the High-Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a U.S. Medical Electronics Factory. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 17.1 (2005): 3-18.
Devinatz, V. The Communist Party's Grassroots Labor and Political Activism Circa 1920 to 1960: Of North Carolina Tobacco Workers, Pennsylvania Anthracite Radicals and the Cold War. American Communist History 4.2 (2005): 247-262.
Devinatz, V. The Role of the Trotskyists in the United Auto Workers, 1939-1949. Left History 10.2 (2005): 53-82.
Devinatz, V. A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on the Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program for Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 16.1 (2004): 13-23.
Devinatz, V. Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation Letter from the Labor-Management Group and the Limits of Trade Union Liberalism. Labor History 45.3 (2004): 373-381.
Devinatz, V. Reflections of a Rank-and-File Faculty Union Organizer at a Public University. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 30.3 (2004): 209-221.
Devinatz, V. Shades of Red: The Leninist Left and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century U.S. Trade Union Movement. American Communist History 3.1 (2004): 161-169.
Devinatz, V. The Media and the Public's Negative View of Labor Unions: In Defense of Labor Studies in the University/College Educational Curriculum. Thought and Action 19.2 (2004): 105-116.
Devinatz, V. 'Imagine That—A Wildcat at Biomed!' Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunion Medical Electronics Factory. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 15.2 (2003): 55-70.
Devinatz, V. Lenin as Scientific Manager Under Monopoly Capitalism, State Capitalism and Socialism: A Response to Scoville. Industrial Relations 42.3 (2003): 513-520.
Devinatz, V. Nelson Lichtenstein and the Politics of Reuther Scholarship. Labour/LeTravail 51 (2003): 171-176.
Devinatz, V. Reassessing the Historical UAW: Walter Reuther's Affiliation with the Communist Party and Something of its Meaning ' A Document of Party Involvement, 1939. Labour/Le Travail 49 (2002): 223-245.
Devinatz, V. The Antipolitics and Politics of a New Left Union Caucus: The Workers' Voice Committee of UAW Local 6, 1970-1975. Nature, Society and Thought 14.3 (2002): 285-321.
Devinatz, V. The Fears of Resource Standardization and the Creation of an Adversarial Workplace Climate: The Struggle to Organize a Faculty Union at Illinois State University. Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations 11 (2002): 145-179.
Devinatz, V. Unions, Faculty, and the Culture of Competition. Thought and Action 17.1 (2001): 87-98.
Devinatz, V. An Analysis of Employee Voting Behavior in Multi-Union Certification Elections Among Unaffiliated Unions. Perceptual and Motor Skills 91 (2000): 512-514.
Devinatz, V. Uncle Sam Does Not Want You To Organize: The 1977 Senate Armed Services Committee Hearings on Outlawing Military Unionization. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 29.2 (2000): 101-116.
Devinatz, V. The Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes: the institutionalization of Collective Bargaining, Shop Floor Contractualism, and Fractional Bargaining. Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations 9 (1999): 211-237.
Devinatz, V. The Real Difference Between the Old Unionism and the New Unionism: A New Strategy for U.S. Public Sector Unions. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 28.1 (1999): 29-39.
Devinatz, V. What Do We Know About Mutual Gains Bargaining Among Educators?. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 27.2 (1998): 79-91.
Devinatz, V. The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Election Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos Abatement Workers. Labor Studies Journal 22.3 (1997): 74-91.
Devinatz, V., & Rich, D. Information, Disinformation, and Union Success in Certification and Decertification Elections. Journal Of Labor Research 17.1 (1996): 199-210.
Devinatz, V. Instead of Leaders They Have Become Bankers of Men': Gramsci's Alternative to the U.S. Neoinstitutionalists' Theory of Trade Union Bureaucratization. Nature, Society and Thought 8.4 (1996): 381-403.
Devinatz, V. Never Before Have M.D.'s Done So Much For Their Patients: The 1975 Strike by the Cook County Hospital House Staff Association Against Cook County Hospital. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 255.2 (1996): 117-136.
Devinatz, V. The Labor Philosophy of William Z. Foster: From the IWW to the TUEL. International Social Science Review 71.1 2 (1996): 3-13.
Devinatz, V. A Program For Building Cooperative Shop Floor Labor Relations: The UAW, The International Harvester Corporation and the 'New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964. Labor Studies Journal 20.3 (1995): 5-18.
Devinatz, V. Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions. Labor Law Journal 46.3 (1995): 182-186.
Devinatz, V. Wayne Kennedy, AFGE Local 2816 and "Community Unionism': A New Conception of Public Sector Unionism. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 24.2 (1995)
Devinatz, V. The Breaking of a Militant Public Sector Social Workers Union: The Public Assistance Chapter of the United Public Workers Local 2, 1950 1951. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 23.1 (1994): 45-57.
Devinatz, V. The Changing Scope of Union Organizing. Labor History 45.2 (1994): 121-123.
Devinatz, V. From Industrial Unionism to General Unionism: An Historical Transformation?. Labor Law Journal 44.4 (1993): 252-256.
Devinatz, V. Rationalizing the Irrationality of the Shop Floor: A Reinterpretation of Juravich's Chaos on the Shop Floor. Labor Studies Journal 18.1 (1993): 3-16.
Devinatz, V., & Rich, D. Representation Type and Union Success in Certification Elections. Journal Of Labor Research 14.1 (1993): 85-92.
Devinatz, V. The AFL CIO Leadership's View on Federal Employee and Teacher Collective Bargaining, 1956 1970. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 22.4 (1993): 297-304.
Devinatz, V. Union Shop Authorization Polls: An Historical Re examination. Labor Law Journal 42.12 (1991): 821-826.
Devinatz, V. Divestiture and Automation of AT&T. Labor Center Review 7 (1985): 23-30.
Devinatz, V. Serving Bias in the Attribution of Responsibility: Cognitive versus Motivational Explanations. Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology 17 (1981): 408-416.

Magazine/Trade Publication

Devinatz, V. “Labor Day 2022: US Trade Unionism in the Covid Era,”. Suzanne Hanney (EDs). StreetWise 31.35 (2022): 13-14.

Newsletter

Devinatz, V. “States with the Highest Job Resignation Rates". WalletHub (2022)
Devinatz, V. “2021 Labor Day Facts–Travel, Money and More”. WalletHub (2021)
Devinatz, V. “Hardest Working Cities in America". WalletHub (2021)

Newspaper, Article

Devinatz, V. May Day 2019: The 2018-19 Teacher Strikes and the Fight against Austerity. StreetWise 27.17 (2019): 13.

Presentations

American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34). Comsmonaut Magazine. Cosmonaut Magazine. (2022)
Communism and American Labor Unions from 1920s to 1940s. Podcast for Varn Vlog. Varn Vlog. (2022)
The Crisis of US Trade Unionism and What Needs to be Done. Distinguished Professor Lecture. (2013)
Manufacturing Resistance: Rationalizing the Irrationality of Managerial Control on the Shop Floor in a US Medical Electronics Factory. Association of Management - Annual Conference. (2005)
High-Tech Production Workers' Fear of Unionizing: A Wheeler-McClendon Model Analysis of a Union Organizing Campaign at a US Medical Electronics Factory. Association on Employment Practices and Principles. (2004)
Kusterer or Manwaring and Wood on the High-Tech Labor Process? Analyzing the Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor in a Medical Electronics Factory. Association on Employment Practices and Principles. (2003)
The Alliance for Labor Action: A Rejection of AFL-CIO Business Unionism and a Return to CIO Social Unionism?. Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History. (2003)
The Latino Gellers' Wildcat Strike at the Biomedical Electronics Corporation. North American Management Society. (2003)
A Response to the British Journal of Industrial Relations Symposium on The Human Rights Watch Report: A Minimum Program For Promoting Collective Bargaining Rights as a Human Right. Association on Employment Practices and Principles. (2002)
Struggling Against the Culture of Competition: The Attempt to Organize a Faculty Union at a Public University. Midwest Business Administration Assoc.. (2001)
Conducted a seminar/workshop in which I taught mutual gains bargaining skills to Farmers Insurance (Aurora, IL) employees, March 9, 2000. Farmer's Insurance. (2000)
Did They Stand Fast: The Role of the Trotskyists in the UAW, 1939-1948. Explorations in the History of U.S. Trotskyism. (2000)
Analyzing the Core of Labor Process Theory: The Nature of Skill, Deskilling and Managerial Control of Labor. Association on Employment Practices and Principles. (1999)
"Imagine That: A Wildcat at Biomed!': Organizational Justice and the Anatomy of a Wildcat Strike at a Nonunionized Medical Electronics Factory. Midwest Business Administration Assoc.. (1999)
The Ideology of Wildcat Strikes and Shop Floor Governance Regimes. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1998)
When Unaffiliated Unions Compete Against Each Other in Multi-¬Union Elections: A Preliminary Analysis. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1997)
The Fair Deal Campaign: The Evolution of a Non NLRB Organizing Strategy for Unionizing Milwaukee Asbestos Abatement Workers. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1996)
NLRB Cases Concerning Union Shop Deauthorization Elections. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1995)
An Exploratory Investigation of Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions in Multiple Union Elections. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1994)
A New Program For Managing Shop Floor Labor Relations: The International Harvester Corporation and the "New Look' Procedure, 1960-1964. Midwest Academy of Management. (1993)
The Changing Scope of Union Organizing: A Typology of Organizing Trends. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1993)
Union Organizing Patterns and Certification Election Success Rates of Left and Non Left Unions. Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (1993)
A Study in the Development of Trade Union Bureaucratization: The Case of UAW Local 6, 1941 1981. Industrial Relations Research Association. (1992)
Public Sector Unions That Organize Private Sector Workers: The Changing Scope of Union Organizing. Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar. (1992)
A History of the American Labor Movement, 1955 1990. Minneapolis Community College. (1991)