DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STUDIES AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS FACULTY      Alan Derickson     129 Willard Building ♦ University Park, PA 16802 ♦ 814-865-0749 ♦ avd3@psu.edu Biography   ARTICLES JAH Article AJPH Article   Alan Derickson is Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations and Penn State University. His research and teaching interests include: history of American labor history of health policy occupational health Alan Derickson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco in 1986. His recent publications include: Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster (Cornell University Press, 1988) Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925 (Cornell University Press, 1988) Philip Taft Labor History Award winner Among the journals in which his articles have appeared are: Journal of American History Labor History American Journal of Public Health Industrial Relations Business History Review Professor Derickson is currently working on the history of the ideal of universal access to health care in the U.S.   Home ♦ Faculty Directory