Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1976
Fields: comparative politics and policy, Scandinavian politics, labor relations, and employee ownership.
Director, Ohio Employee Ownership Center
John Logue's research links divergent subjects: Scandinavian politics and policy, American trade unions, and employee ownership. The common denominator is abiding faith in the possibilities of political and economic reform.
Logue's works on Scandinavian politics include three books-- the most recent is Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Politics and Policies in the Global Age, co-authored with Eric Einhorn (2nd edition, Praeger, 2003) -- and about two dozen articles and book chapters published in English, Danish, German, and Italian that deal with issues of Scandinavian party politics, defense policy, labor history, industrial relations, and welfare policies. He has taught at the universities of Linköping (Sweden), Roskilde (Denmark), and Copenhagen (Denmark), and held a research appointment at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden); he also served as social science and history editor for Scandinavian Studies from 1985 to 1991 and currently maintains the Scandinavian election statistics website.
On American labor and employee ownership, Logue edited International Association of Machinists' president William Winpisinger's speeches into a valedictory volume Reclaiming Our Future: An Agenda for American Labor (Westview, 1989; foreword by Senator Edward Kennedy); was co‑editor of Managing Modern Capitalism: Industrial Renewal and Workplace Democracy in the United States and Western Europe (Greenwood and Praeger, 1991); co-authored with Jacquelyn Yates The Real World of Employee Ownership (Cornell University Press, 2001; foreword by William Greider); and has authored and co-authored some two dozen scholarly articles, book chapters, monographs, and practical materials and manuals on various aspects of labor-management cooperation, industrial democracy, and employee ownership of American business. He has also co-edited two books that examine privatization in the former Communist world: Transforming Russian Enterprises: From State Control to Employee Ownership (Greenwood, 1995; Russian translation, 1997) with John Simmons and Sergei Plekhanov, and Transitions to Capitalism and Democracy in Russia and Central Europe: Achievements, Problems, Prospects (Praeger, 2000) with Donald Hancock as well as a dozen articles and book chapters published in English and Russian various aspects of privatization and transition to market economics.
Logue has served as director of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) since it was established in 1987. The OEOC, which is located within the Department, provides information and technical assistance to Ohio employees seeking to purchase their firms, does training in existing employee-owned firms, staffs Ohio's Employee-owned Network, supports the development of employee ownership internationally, and has an active research program; for additional information, visit http://dept.kent.edu/oeoc.
His recent awards include the Kent State University Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2002, the Ohio Council of Cooperatives’ Ohio Cooperative Educator award for 2003, and the $115,000 Ford Foundation/Advocacy Institute Leadership for a Changing World award in 2003.
e-mail: jlogue@kent.edu