Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Senior Associate of the W.T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University.

He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently does research and teaching in labor economics, industrial relations, and human resource management.

He has written, edited, or co-edited sixteen books, including The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas and the IIRA (2004), Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship (2004), What Do Unions Do?: A Twenty Year Perspective (2007), and Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry (2008), as well as several dozen scholarly articles. He is also co-editor of the annual research volume Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.