About Our Contributors
- About Our Contributors
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 Berry is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (2005) and a veteran labor educator, union staffer and organizer, and activist. He can be reached at joeberry@igc.org.
Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse, author, and creative writing teacher. Her books are Breathless; Blind Horse: Poems; Eclipse: Stories; Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered; No Matter How Many Windows; and The Wedding of Miss Meredith Mouse. She can be reached at jebryner@gmail.com.
Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban and Environmental Policy department at Occidental College. He is a co-author of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City and Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century, and the author of The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame. He can be reached at dreier@oxy.edu.
Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She has written widely in labor and employment law, and is the author of Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (2010) and Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (2003). She can be reached at estlundc@exchange.law.nyu.edu.
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 and the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops. She teaches in the Union Semester program at the Murphy Institute and in NYU’s journalism school, and can be reached at lfeather@panix.com.
Steve Fraser is a writer, editor, and historian. 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.
Sam Gindin was research director of the Canadian Autoworkers from 1974 to 2000, and the Visiting Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University from 2001 to 2011. He is currently active in the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly, and can be reached at sam.gindin@gmail.com.
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead (2010), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
David Huyssen completed his Ph.D. at Yale, where he organized graduate employees and served on the GESO’s Steering Committee for six years. He is a Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New York Historical Society, and teaches history at the New School’s Eugene Lang College. His current book project, Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, is under contract with Harvard University Press. He can be reached at huyssend@newschool.edu.
Janelle Jones is a research assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. She can be reached at jones@cepr.net.
Penny Lewis is an assistant professor at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. She has worked as a union organizer and is currently a university-wide officer on the executive council of the Professional Staff Congress (AFT Local 2334). She can be reached at pennywlewis@gmail.com. [End Page 130]
Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. His latest book, edited with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, is The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. He can be reached at nelson@history.ucsb.edu.
Stephanie Luce is an associate professor at the Joseph...
