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  • About Our Contributors

Nicholas Allen has been a union organizer for the past thirteen years and is a campaign director at the Strategic Organizing Center of Change to Win. He can be reached at nick.allen@changetowin.org.

Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His most recent book is False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy and he can be reached at dean.baker1@verizon.net.

Tim Beaty is the Director of Global Strategies at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He can be reached at tbeaty@teamster.org.

Ben Becker is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. He can be reached at bbecker@gc.cuny.edu.

Joe Burns is a former local union president, has been active in strike solidarity, and is a graduate of New York University School of Law. He is currently employed as a labor negotiator. He is finalizing a book, The Revival of the Strike and the Future of American Labor, that expands upon the ideas in this Spring 2010 New Labor Forum article. He can be reached at joe.burns2@gmail.com.

Liza Featherstone is a contributing writer at the Nation and her writing on labor issues has appeared in Slate, Salon, Newsday, the New York Times, and many other publications. She is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books) and the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso). She teaches in the Union Semester program at the Murphy Institute and in NYU's journalism school. She can be reached at lfeather@panix.com.

Steve Fraser is a historian, an editor, and a writer working on a book comparing America's two gilded ages. He can be reached at fraser927@aol.com.

Joshua B. Freeman teaches history at Queens College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Murphy Institute. He is currently writing a history of the United States since World War II and can be reached at JFreeman@gc.cuny.edu.

Tony Hoagland teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston. His latest book of poems is Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, and he can be reached at thglnd@aol.com.

Alethia Jones is an assistant professor at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs (SUNY-Albany). In addition to her academic work on the intersection of race, immigration, and community banking, she conducts trainings for non-immigrants about immigration issues. She can be reached at ajones@albany.edu.

Dorianne Laux teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award. She can be reached at dlaux@uoregon.edu. [End Page 106]

Stephen Lerner has been a union organizer for more than thirty years. He currently directs the SEIU's private equity and financial reform campaigns, and serves on the SEIU's International Executive Board. He can be reached at stephen.lerner@seiu.org.

Gregory Mantsios is the director of the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, which publishes New Labor Forum. He can be reached at gregory.mantsios@mail.cuny.edu.

Walter Benn Michaels teaches in the English Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His most recent book is The Trouble with Diversity (Metropolitan, 2006); his next will be The Death of a Beautiful Woman: Form Now. He can be reached at wbm@uic.edu.

Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He can be reached at pollin@econs.umass.edu.

Peter Rachleff is a professor of history at Macalester College. He has served as president of the Working-Class Studies Association and on the board of the Labor and Working-Class History Association. He can be reached at rachleff@macalester.edu.

Charley Richardson works for the UMass-Lowell Labor Extension Program, focusing on work restructuring, technological change, and the "tricks and traps" of joint labor-management programs. He is a shipfitter (heavy steel fabricator) by trade and was active in the...

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