James A. Gross

James A. Gross (born 1933) is an American educator and historian who teaches United States labor law and labor history at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is the author of a highly regarded three-volume history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and is considered the leading historian of the NLRB.

Career James Gross was born in 1933 and raised near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played baseball as a youth, and for many years pursued a career as a major league ball player.

He entered the United States Army after college. of the National Labor Relations Board has been called "authoritative" and "exhaustive". The second volume in the trilogy, The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947, won the prestigious Philip Taft Labor History Book Award in 1983.

Memberships and awards Gross is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association, and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Gross is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2007 was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at McGill University in Canada.

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