[3] He also worked as research and education director for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union (AMC) of Chicago (1948–1949).
[3] He then became staff director (1949–1953) of a subcommittee on labor-management relations on the US Senate's Labor Committee (currently called the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions).
[1][2][3] In 1957, Barbash became a professor of economics and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught for 24 years before retiring as the John P. Bascom Professor Emeritus of Economics and Industrial Relations in 1981.
[1][2] Son Fred Barbash became national editor of the Washington Post.
[3] Jack Barbash died age 83 on May 21, 1994, of a heart attack in Madison, Wisconsin, where he had been living since 1957.