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Carolyn Tuttle > Biographical Sketch

Carolyn Tuttle, a long time resident of Evanston, received her Bachelors of Arts degree from Boston College in 1979 and her Masters and Doctorate in Economics from Northwestern University in 1982 and 1986, respectively.  She has taught economics at Lake Forest College since the fall of 1984.  Carolyn was awarded the Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Chair in 2005 for her outstanding teaching, research and service to the college.  She was promoted to Full Professor in 2000 and she teaches principles, macroeconomics, money and banking, labor, and globalization.  Her areas of research are child labor and globalization.  During her first sabbatical she did research on child labor during the British Industrial Revolution in Oxford.  Carolyn has a book published by Westview Press in 1999 entitled Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor in Great Britain.  On her latest sabbatical she did field research in Mexico along the border and interviewed 600 maquiladora workers.  Using this data she has recently completed a manuscript on the impact of NAFTA on Mexico entitled American Factories in Mexico:  Liberation or Exploitation?  She has given seminars at Harvard University Economic History Seminar, Northwestern University Economic History Seminar and the University of Chicago Economic History Seminar.  In the fall of 2006 she gave a paper on "Why Countries Use Child Labor to Industrialize" at the International Conference on child labor, "Child Labour's Global Past:  1500-2000" in Amsterdam, Netherlands.