Stanley H. Ruttenberg

Stanley H. Ruttenberg (March 19, 1917 – March 28, 2001) was an American labor economist, CIO union organizer, director of the research department of the AFL–CIO, and assistant secretary of Labor under U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Background Ruttenberg was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 19, 1917. His brother was Harold J. Ruttenberg. He spent his childhood in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, and went to school at Massanutten Military Academy, in Woodstock, Virginia. He received a BS from the University of Pittsburgh.

Harold J. Ruttenberg, his brother, served as director of research for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). In 1942, the brothers also worked with Hetzel, Lee Pressman, and Vincent Sweeney in writing the initial legal brief to the National War Labor Board (NWLB) for the Little Steel case.

During World War II, he served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army on Okinawa and also for the War Manpower Commission. In mid-1950s, Ruttenberg joined the newly reunited AFL–CIO as chief economist and director of its research department.

Works Books: With Joycelyn Gutchess, Ruttenberg wrote:

Articles co-written: Brothers Harold and Stanley co-authored under the CIO aegis on "War and the Steel Ghost Towns," Harper's (January 1940)

Pamphlets: "World Cooperation for Social Progress" by Ralph J. Bunche, William Green, Paul H. Douglas, Stanley H. Ruttenberg and others (prior to 1953)