Goldberg, Joseph P. The Maritime Story: A Study in Labor-Management Relations, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958.

Donahue was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson as Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations in the Labor Department in 1967.

He served on the House Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, Government Operation, Labor-Management Relations, and Transportation committees, and on various sub-committees relevant to each area.

Goldberg, Joseph P. The Maritime Story: A Study in Labor-Management Relations.

President Nixon appointed W. J. Usery Jr., the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Relations, to supervise the mine election.

Earlier he served as Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations from 1961-65, initially for President John F. Kennedy.

Peterson was a member of the Commerce and Economic Development, Education, Health and Welfare, Labor-Management Relations, and Taxes committees in the House.

In 1977, he was named director of the Office of Labor-Management Relations, which was created that year to foster harmony between labor and management in the private sector.

He served from 1975-1976, and was a member of the Crime Prevention & Corrections, Governmental Operations, and Labor-Management Relations committees.

He also serves as the Samuel Gompers Professor of Labor-Management Relations at the school.