Joseph A. McCartin

Joseph A. McCartin (born May 12, 1959) is a professor of history at Georgetown University whose research focuses on labor unions in the United States.

McCartin was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1959, and is the son of Joseph and Marybeth McCartin. Joseph McCartin is of Irish-Latino descent, resided in Troy, New York as a child. In 1981 he received his bachelor's degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1985 he received a master's degree, and in 1990 a doctor of philosophy, both from Binghamton University.

From 1990 to 1992, he was a lecturer at the University of Rhode Island. In 1992, he was appointed an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo. In 1998 he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1999, McCartin took a position at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he is now a professor and the director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

His brother is noted Catholic historian James McCartin.

McCartin is a historical institutionalist whose research focuses on the history of labor unions in the United States during the 20th century. McCartin is a strong advocate of industrial democracy, an economic arrangement in which workers share in the management of the workplace. He has challenged many of the labor movement's closely held beliefs, including the idea that the PATCO air traffic controllers' strike of 1981 began, rather than culminated, an attack on labor rights in the United States.

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