Contact Information
Phone Number: 608.215.6701
Email Address:
femspak@igc.org
"Our job is to provide the skills training so that their workers act on their own behalf."
When someone asks what it's like to be a machinist or a member of the executive board of a large industrial local union, there is one faculty member who can speak from actual experience. Frank Emspak not only has his doctorate in history from U.W.-Madison, but years of shop floor and local union experience to boot. As a faculty member since 1991, Frank has also spent a year as a program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and for four years directed the Center for Applied Technology, a program of the Massachusetts Centers for Excellence.
Frank is currently leading the School's effort to establish Workers' Independent News service or WIN, a nation-wide network of labor programming supported by local unions and labor councils working with community-owned, public and commercial radio stations.
Frank also has taught extensively and conducted research in the fields of labor management committees, evaluation of new technology and work systems and facilitating union strategic planning.
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
M.A. History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968
BA Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1962