Randy Albelda

Randy Pearl Albelda (born 1955) is an American feminist economist, activist, author, and academic who specialises in poverty and gender issues.

Background

Albelda attended Smith College, where she received a B.A. in Economics in 1977, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1983 her first paper was published researching the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era.[1]

With her colleague Ann Withorn, Albelda started the Boston Area Academics Working Group on Poverty in 1995 as welfare reform measures were being passed in Massachusetts. Albelda and The Academic Working Group are in a coalition called Working Massachusetts that incorporates academics, the State AFL-CIO, religious groups, and low-income people.

Albelda became a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston in Economics in 1988. She has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. She became an associate editor for the journal Feminist Economics in 2004, an editorial associate for Dollars & Sense magazine in 1986, and was a co-founder of Academics Working Group on Poverty in Massachusetts in 1995, remaining until 1999.

Representative publications

Her works include:

  • Mink Coats Don’t Trickle Down: The Economic Attack on Women and People of Color (1987; co-authored with Elaine McCrate, Edwin Melendez, and June Lapidus)
  • Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits (1997; co-authored with Chris Tilly)
  • Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field (1997)

Awards

In 2000 Albelda received the Abigail Adams Award from Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus. In 2004 she received University of Massachusetts Boston’s Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

Bibliography

  • Albelda, Randy Pearl (1988). Mink coats don't trickle down : the economic attack on women and people of color. Boston, MA: South End Press]. ISBN 9780896083288. OCLC 918376711.
  • Albelda, Randy Pearl; Tilly, Chris (1997). Glass ceilings and bottomless pits : women's work, women's poverty. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896085664. OCLC 605023572.
  • Albelda, Randy Pearl (1997). Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field. Impact of feminism on the arts & sciences. New York, NY: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 9780805797596. OCLC 652472647.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Randy Albelda". umb.edu. University of Massachusetts Boston:. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Albelda, Randy P; Humphries, Jane; Himmelweit, Susan (2005). Dilemmas of lone motherhood. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415360180.
  3. ↑ Albelda, Randy P.; Bergmann, Barbara; Green, Kate; Himmelweit, Susan F.; Women's Committee of One Hundred; Koren, Charlotte (July 2004). "Lone mothers: What is to be done?". Feminist Economics. Taylor and Francis. 10 (2): 237–264. doi:10.1080/1354570042000217793.
  • Albelda, Randy Pearl (July 2006). "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 19, 2006. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  • Home page International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
  • Home page Feminist Economics journal
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