Serhan Afacan is Assistant Professor of History at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey. After completing his BA in history at Istanbul Bilgi University, he joined Leiden University in the Netherlands to continue his studies. For his PhD research, completed in 2015, he concentrated on the social history of Iranian textile workers from the Constitutional Revolution in 1906 until the end of Reza Shah’s reign in 1941. His research interests are Iranian history (particularly twentieth century), Middle Eastern labour history, labour historiography, petitioning culture in Iran, and comparative historiography.

Victoria Basualdo holds a PhD in History from Columbia University, is a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), coordinator of the Program on Labor Studies, Trade Union Movement and Industrial Organization in the Area of Economics and Technology, and a Professor in the Political Economy Master’s Degree Program at FLACSO-Argentina. She has written several articles, chapters, and books on Argentine and Latin American labor history, including La tercerización laboral: orígenes, impacto y claves para su análisis en América Latina (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2014) and Tercerización y derechos laborales en la Argentina actual (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2015). She also coordinated the book Responsabilidad empresarial en delitos de lesa humanidad: represión a trabajadores durante el terrorismo de estado (Infojus, 2015), developed by a team of researchers from AEyT FLACSO, CELS, the Truth and Justice Program, and the Secretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of Argentina.

Aziz Çelik is Professor at the Kocaeli University in the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. He holds a PhD from the Marmara University Labour Economics and Industrial Relations Department. Prior to joining to the Kocaeli University, Çelik worked for Turkish Trade Unions for over twenty years. He has published books and articles on labor history, industrial relations, and trade unionism in Turkey. He is a columnist for the Istanbul-based daily newspaper BirGün, reporting on current labor issues.

Larissa Rosa Corrêa is Professor of History at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She did her postdoctoral work at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. She is a labor historian with an interest in the Southern Cone trade unions' international relations during the Cold War military dictatorships. Her most recent book is Disseram que voltei americanizado: relações sindicais Brasil e Estados Unidos durante a ditadura militar (Editora Unicamp, 2017).

Paulo Fontes is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CPDOC/FVG) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a Researcher (Bolsista Produtividade) of the Brazilian Scientific Research Council (CNPq). He was a Visiting Professor at Duke (2004) and Princeton (2006/7) Universities in the United States and a Fellow Researcher at the International Institute of Social History (2013) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and at the re:work Institute of Humboldt University (2014) in Berlin, Germany. A historian of Brazilian labour and working-class culture, Fontes is the author of several articles and books, among them Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo (Duke University Press, 2016), the English translation of his Thomas Skidmore Prize-winning book Um Nordeste em São Paulo: Trabalhadores Migrantes em São Miguel Paulista, 1945–1966 (FGV Editora, 2009).

Sophie L. Gonick is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU with an emphasis on Global Urban Humanities. Her work emerges at the intersection of urban planning and history, critical race and gender studies, and debates on migration, integration, and inclusion, particularly within the context of Southern Europe. She is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled Model Citizens: Migrants, Urbanism, and Protest in Madrid, which considers the role of immigrants within both the Spanish boom and the anti-evictions movement that emerged during the subsequent crisis. Both archival and ethnographic, other work has considered squatting and insurgency, new forms of democratic urban politics, and property regimes and relations. A new project examines emergent radical urban democratic experiments from Jackson, Mississippi, to Barcelona, and Beirut.

Cam Grey is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the Roman Peasant Project, a multidisciplinary, microregional exploration of the lifeways of peasants based in the commune of Cinigiano in southern Tuscany. His research interests encompass the social, cultural, and economic history of the Roman and Late Antique world, with a particular focus upon the lived experiences of marginal and rural populations and the ways in which they manage social and economic risk. In recent work, he has focused increasingly upon the multidimensional, dialectical relationships between human populations and the environments in which they lived, drawing upon analytical paradigms from landscape archaeology and environmental studies. He is currently preparing a monograph that analyzes disasters in the late Roman world within the context of societal and communal cultures of risk in the period.

Jonathan Hyslop is Professor of Sociology at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. He has published widely on southern African social history and historiography, maritime history and labor history, in journals including Journal of Transport History, Journal of Global History, International Review of Social History, Labour History Review, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Journal of Historical Sociology. Hyslop has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the re:work program at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is the author of The Notorious Syndicalist, a biography of the Scottish-South African trade unionist, J.T. Bain (Ravan, 2004). He can be contacted at jhyslop@colgate.edu.

Ronaldo Munck is Head of Civic Engagement at Dublin City University and holds visiting professorships in development and labour studies at the University of Liverpool and Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has written widely on both labor and migration issues since the influential New International Labour Studies (Zed Books 1988) including a labor history of his native Argentina and Globalisation and Migration, New Issues, New Politics (Routledge, 2009). Munck sits on the international editorial board of a number of journals including Labor History, Labour, Capital and Society, Global Discourse, Global Labour Journal, and Globalizations. He is researching the role of social movements in Latin America after the ‘pink tide.’ He is a labor activist and shop steward for SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union) in Ireland.

David Ost is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and frequent visiting professor in Poland. He has written widely on eastern European politics and society, with a focus on political economy, democratization, capitalism, and labor. His books include Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics (Temple University Press, 1990), Workers After Workers' States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and The Defeat of Solidarity (Cornell University Press, 2005), and he is the editor of the special issue of Eastern European Politics and Societies, “Class After Communism” (2015). Recent work includes “Back to the Semi-Periphery: The Endless Innovations of Eastern Europe” (The Future of (Post) Socialism, SUNY Press, 2018), “Authoritarian Drive in Poland” (Poland's Illiberal Revolution, Central European University Press, forthcoming), and “The Surprising Right-Wing Relevance of the Russian Revolution” (Constellations 24, 2017). He is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals in the United States and Poland.

Didem Özkızıltan is a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin. She holds a PhD in Industrial Relations from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Her research focuses on the political economy of work, precarity and insecurity in the world of work, and trade unionism with a special focus on Turkey. She has published work on industrial relations, working class resistance, and occupational health and safety.

Steven Parfitt teaches at the Universities of Loughborough, Nottingham, and Derby in the United Kingdom. His research deals with British, American, and global social history, and particularly with labor movements in those countries and around the world. His first book, Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2016. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Labor, Labour History Review and the International Review of Social History, and in newspapers and magazines, including Jacobin, The Guardian, Labor Notes, and In These Times. His first public exhibition, Labour's Special Relationship, is now touring the United Kingdom and the United States.

Barnaby Raine is a PhD student in History at Columbia University, where he studies modern European intellectual history. His dissertation will treat the career of a political concept, the “transition” beyond capitalism, from Marx into the twentieth century.

Ernesto Semán is Associate Professor of Latin American history in Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book is Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labor Activists & Cold War Democracy in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2017).

Romain Tiquet completed a Master’s Thesis in Paris focusing on the history of civilian police forces in Burkina Faso during the colonial and postcolonial period, and obtained a PhD in History of Africa from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2016. His dissertation offers a social history of coercive forms of labor mobilization in Senegal during the colonial and postcolonial era (requisition, convict labor, military labor, etc.). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the History Department of University of Geneva and works on the local and social history of the processes of decolonization in Burkina Faso and Ghana.

Smriti Upadhyay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

Marcel van der Linden is Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, where he served as Research Director between 2001 and 2014. He is also Emeritus Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam.

Angela Vergara is Professor of History at California State University Los Angeles. She obtained her BA in history at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile (1994) and her PhD at the University of California San Diego (2002). Her research focuses on Chile’s modern social and labor history. She is the author of Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile (Penn State University Press, 2008) and coeditor of Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities (University of Georgia Press, 2011), and the special issue of Radical History Review, “The Other 9/11: Chile 1973 – Memory, Resistance and Democratization” (2016).

Peter Winn is a Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism (Oxford University Press, 1986) and the editor and coauthor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002 (Duke University Press, 2004).

Gilda Zazzara is Research Fellow at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Hired Professor of History of Labour and Contemporary History of Venice. She is member of the editorial board of the series Culture del lavoro (Cultures of Labour) of the Ca’ Foscari Digital Publishing and trainer in Labour History for workers representatives of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL). The focus of her research has included the history of the Italian Labour Movement, with particular regard to Venice and Northeast Italy. She is currently researching the deindustrialization of the industrial zone of Porto Marghera, focusing on the memories and narratives of the industrial decline among former workers, citizens, environmental professionals, and policy makers.