He became a professor in the department of business administration at Albright College, and obtained his doctorate in economics from the Wharton School in 1929.

In his first years as a professor at Wharton, Taylor founded the academic field of industrial relations, which covered labor arbitration, mediation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

[2] Taylor received national acclaim for helping mediate an end to a strike at Apex Hosiery in Philadelphia in 1932.

During his 10 years as impartial chairman, Taylor established a national minimum wage in the hosiery industry.

[1] In 1941, Taylor served as an impartial arbitrator between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors.

He left it in 1952, and although he continued to teach at the Wharton School he also was the official arbitrator of internal Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) jurisdictional disputes.

He served in this capacity for three years, and his work became a model for handling inter-union disputes after the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and CIO merged in 1955.

[5] During his lifetime, Taylor was credited with coining a number of common collective bargaining terms, including "tandem," "escalator clause," "productivity improvement," "interplant inequity," and "ability to pay.

[5] As he once noted: In 1933, Taylor was appointed chairman for the Philadelphia regional office of the National Labor Board.

Taylor left federal service in 1935, although he continued to serve as an advisor to the Fair Labor Standards Administration throughout the 1930s.

The same year, Truman appointed Taylor chairman of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

During his tenure on the committee, Taylor helped craft a long-term contractual solution to a series of wildcat strikes which had plagued the aerospace industry since World War II.

In 1965, Taylor led a fact-finding board which the UFT used to win its first collective bargaining agreement with the city.

Taylor led the other five members of the panel in proposing new legislation which gave New York's public employees significantly stronger collective bargaining rights.

[1] During his life, Taylor became close friends with many of the most important labor and government officials of his day: Frances Perkins, Cyrus Ching, George Meany, Philip Murray, Clark Kerr, Walter Heller, Henry J. Kaiser, John L. Lewis, George Shultz, John Dunlop and W. Willard Wirtz.