Franco Barchiesi is Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. From 1996 to 2002 he taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), where he received his PhD. Barchiesi is the author of Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa (Albany: SUNY Press, 2011) and a co-editor of Rethinking the Labour Movement in the “New South Africa” (London: Ashgate, 2003).

Claudio H. M. Batalha has a History doctorate from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He is currently professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, having published on subjects including labor organizations, labor culture, labor biographies, May Day rituals, French socialism, Second International Socialism, French and Argentinian socialist influence in Brazil and labor historiography. His current research project deals with working-class and institutional politics in Rio de Janeiro from the 1880s to the 1920s.

Lawrence Black is Professor of Modern British History at the University of York. He is editor (with Hugh Pemberton and Pat Thane) of Reassessing the Seventies (Manchester University Press, 2013) and the author, most recently, of Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–70 (Palgrave, 2010). He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of History at American University in Washington, DC and is writing a study of shopping in the UK and USA since 1899.

Cecelia Bucki is Professor of History at Fairfield University (Connecticut), where she has taught since 1990. She has also taught at Hamilton College, Wesleyan University, and Yale University. Her publications include Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915–1936, which won the 2002 Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. Award for Best Book in Connecticut History, and more recently The 1930s: Social History of the United States, a volume in the 10-volume ABC-CLIO American Social History in the Twentieth Century (2009). In 2011, she was appointed the editor-in-chief of Connecticut History, the twice-yearly academic journal of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History. She has been National Secretary of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) since 2003.

Ralph Callebert teaches world and African history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He researches South African and labor history, the development of the informal economy, labor migration, the household, and gender.

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies at Rutgers University, specializes in the twentieth-century history of social movements and politics. Her book, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2004), won the 2005 Taft Book Prize and other awards. She is the recipient of fellowships from, among others, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Harvard University's Warren Center for American History. Currently she is working on two book projects: (1) a transnational history of women's rights, and (2) an intellectual history of labor liberalism.

Geoffrey Field is Professor of History at Purchase College, SUNY. His research has focused on twentieth century Britain, modern Germany, European racism and anti-Semitism. His latest book is Blood, Sweat and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class 1939–1945 (Oxford, 2012). He is currently completing an essay about national servicemen in Britain's counterinsurgency wars from 1948 to 1960.

Alexandre Fortes is a professor in the graduate program in history at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. His books include the 2004 monograph Nós do Quarto Distrito: A Classe Trabalhadora Porto-Alegrense e a Era Vargas [We of the Fourth District: The Working Class of Porto Alegre and the Vargas Era], the edited volume Historia e Perspectivas da Esquerda [The Left: History and Perspectives] (2005), and the co-edited volume of oral histories Muitos Caminhos, uma Estrela: Memória de Militantes do PT [Many Paths, One Star: Memories of Militants of the Workers' Party] (2008).

Joshua B. Freeman is Professor of History at the Murphy Institute, Queens College, and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

John D. French is a Professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Duke University. His books include The Brazilian Workers ABC (1992), Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (2004), and a co-edited volume, The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). He is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled Lula's Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency.

Dorothy Fujita-Rony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Andrea Graziosi is a Professor of History at the Università di Napoli Federico II. He has served as President of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (2007–2011) and President of the Panel for Research Evaluation in History and Philosophy, Italian State University System (2011–2013). His honors include Order of Jaroslav the Wise, Ukrainian Republic, 2005; Prize Piemonte Storia 2008, and Prize Capalbio Storia Politica 2008 for L'Urss di Lenin e Stalin. Storia dell'Unione sovietica, 1914–1945 and the Antonovych Foundation Prize in Ukrainian History, 2011. He has served as Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2010, 2004, 2000); Professor of Soviet Ukrainian History, Harvard University Summer School (2009); Visiting Professor of Soviet History, Harvard University (2003); Professor of Eastern European History, European University Institute (1998–99); and Visiting Professor of Russian History, Yale University (1997).

Michael M. Hall teaches in the History Department at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. His work has dealt primarily with immigration and labor history in Brazil.

Michael Hanagan teaches history at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the author of several books on labor history and has co-edited a number of books, most recently, Contention and Trust in Cities and States. He is currently collaborating on a world history text and on a comparative study of the welfare state in Britain, France and the United States.

Brenda Henry-Offor is an Assistant Professor and Mentor at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, Empire State College, SUNY. She received her Bachelor's degrees in English, Elementary and Secondary Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY and an MA in English literature at Purdue University. Dr. Henry-Offor obtained a PhD in English Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with specialization in Renaissance Drama, and Certificates in Women's Studies and Renaissance Studies. A former Coordinator for the CUNY Pipeline Program for five years, Dr. Henry-Offor received the 2009 award for Most Outstanding Student Advocate and Mentor at CUNY. She is also an education consultant for various international and local non-profit organizations.

Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. In the recent past, he has published in the fields of comparative and transnational labor history. His most recent book is Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present (Manchester University Press, 2011). He is currently researching transnational radicalism globally and in the British world.

Jürgen Kocka taught Social History at the University of Bielefeld (1973–1988) and History of the Industrial World at the Free University of Berlin (1988–2009). He is Permanent Fellow of the Centre “Work and Life Course in Global Historical Perspective,” Humboldt University, Berlin and presently is a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He has published widely in the field of modern history, particularly the social, economic and cultural history of Germany and Europe as well as comparative history, e.g.: Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany (1999) and Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (2010).

Claude D. Montgomery is a partner in the New York office of Salans LLP.

Mae M. Ngai is Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute, and is now a fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library. She is currently working on a comparative study of Chinese gold miners in nineteenth century California, the Australian colony of Victoria, and the Transvaal, which thinks about the role of diasporic labor in extractive economies in the making of settler-colonial societies and the place of gold in global capitalist development during the late nineteenth century.

Prasannan Parthasarathi teaches South Asian and Global History at Boston College. His publications include The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720–1800 (Cambridge, 2001), The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850 (Oxford, 2009) (edited with Giorgio Riello), and Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850 (Cambridge, 2011).

Shana L. Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching interests include the African diaspora, Black political cultures, music and popular culture, US history and social movements, labor and working-class studies, and comparative ethnic studies. In addition to short commentaries on blogs and festival websites, she has published in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Her book, Anthem: Movement Cultures and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora, is forthcoming from New York University Press.

Marcel van der Linden is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History, Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam, and President of the International Social History Association (2005–10, 2010–15). His recent books include Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2003); Spanish edition 2006); Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917 (Leiden: Brill, 2007; paperback edition Chicago: Haymarket, 2009; Chinese and Korean editions 2012); Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008; paperback edition 2010; René Kuczynski Prize 2009, Brazilian edition forthcoming).

Peter Winn is a senior editor of ILWCH and Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism (Oxford, 1986 & 1989) and co-author/editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002 (Duke University Press, 2004). Currently, he is completing a book about history and memory in post-dictatorship Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Xiaodan Zhang is an Associate Professor of sociology at York College, CUNY. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She has published articles on shopfloor dynamics and trade unions in China.