Previously he taught courses at Tulane University, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Columbia University, the Van Arsdale Labor Center of Empire State College (SUNY), and Princeton University. His research explores the development of white-collar work in the twentieth-century United States, with a focus on labor relations within the culture industries. He is completing revisions to, The Creative Class: White-Collar Workers and the Making of America’s Culture of Consumer Capitalism, which is under contract with Oxford University Press.