Contributors
- Contributors
Brooke Boulton teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Rainy River Community College in International Falls, Minnesota. She earned her master of fine arts degree in poetry from Northern Michigan University. The history of labor and mining culture in the Upper Peninsula first inspired, and continues to influence, her writing and research.
Peter Hinks is the author of To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (1997). He has recently coedited with Stephen Kantrowitz a collection of essays on the history of black freemasonry, All Men Free and Brethren (2013).
Trish Kahle is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a contributing editor at Red Wedge Magazine and writes for Jacobin, Dissent, In These Times, Salon, and The Ecologist. Her article “The Political Economy of Low-Wage Labor,” appeared in the International Socialist Review (2015).
John W. McKerley is oral historian for the Iowa Labor History Oral Project at the University of Iowa Labor Center. His most recent work is a forthcoming coedited collection of essays, Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies.
Jennifer Sherer is director of the University of Iowa Labor Center, where she has served as a labor educator for more than a decade and is coordinating the revival of the Iowa Labor History Oral Project. She first became active in the labor movement as a leader of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 896–COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students), a UE project staff organizer, and a Students against Sweatshops activist while earning a PhD in English.
Gregory Wood is associate professor of history and director of the honors program at Frostburg State University in western Maryland, where he teaches courses in twentieth- century US social, labor, and cultural history as well as historical methods. He is the author of Retiring Men: Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900–1960 (2012). Dr. Wood is currently working on a book that examines the history of smoking and tobacco control in the workplace during the twentieth century. [End Page 171]
