Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and professor of Middle East history at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as director of Middle East studies and professor of history at the American University in Cairo. In 2001–2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. His latest books are Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa (2011), co-ted with Frédéric Vairel, and The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (2010).
Lance Compa is a senior lecturer at Cornell University's ILR School in Ithaca, New York. He has written three Human Rights Watch reports on workers' rights in the United States: A Strange Case: Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations (2010), Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants (2005), and Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards (2000) (republished by Cornell University Press in 2004 with a new introduction and conclusion).
Geoffrey Field is professor of history at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author most recently of Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939–1945 (2011); his research has focused on twentieth-century Britain, modern Germany, European racism, and anti-Semitism.
Joshua B. Freeman is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is associated with its Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. His books include Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II and In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966. He is the author of a forthcoming history of the United States since the second World War, which will be the final volume of the Penguin History of the United States.
Chad Alan Goldberg is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in comparative-historical and political sociology. His main interest is the sociology of citizenship, broadly understood to include the development of citizenship rights and duties over time, changing levels and forms of civic engagement and political participation, and shifting patterns of civil inclusion and exclusion. He has related interests in democratic theory, social movements, and the welfare state. His first book, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008.
Jill Jensen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, currently writing a dissertation on the history of US international labor standards policy and the International Labor Organization. She teaches courses on US labor history, international labor movements, and workers' and human rights. She is currently serving as the assistant director to the UCSB Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
Keith Mann is associate professor of sociology at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French social and labor history. He is the author of Forging Political Identity: Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900–1939 (2010). In addition to contributions to International Labor and Working-Class History, his work has appeared in the International Review of Social History, Labor History, and Le mouvement social.
Joseph A. McCartin is associate professor of history and director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. His work focuses on the intersection of labor, politics, and state policies at historic junctures. His book, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations (1998), won the Philip Taft Labor History Prize. His forthcoming book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America will appear in fall 2011.
Richard McIntyre is professor of economics and director of the University Honors Program at the University of Rhode Island, where he is also on the faculty of the Schmidt Labor Research Center and is a fellow at the John Hazen White Center for Ethics and Public Service. He is author of Are Worker Rights Human Rights? (2008) and editor for Routledge's New Political Economy book series. He is currently working on American capitalist class exceptionalism with Michael Hillard.
Jennifer Mittelstadt is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she studies gender, race, social policy, and politics in the postwar United States. She is the author of numerous articles and two books, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965 (2005) and (with Premilla Nadasen and Marisa Chappell) Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents (2009). Currently, she is writing a history of social welfare, politics, and the all-volunteer army in the United States.
Michelle Moyd is assistant professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She specializes in African history, with subspecializations in Eastern Africa, German colonialism, and African military history. She is currently working on her book, tentatively titled Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa. She received her Ph.D. in history from Cornell University in 2008.
Priscilla Murolo teaches history at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is codirector of the graduate program in women's history. With her husband Ben Chitty, she coauthored From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. A recent addition to the board of directors of the Labor and Working Class History Association, she urges all ILWCH readers to join that organization and tap the resources available on its website: http://www.lawcha.org/index.php. She can be reached at pmurolo@slc.edu.
Gay Seidman is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has focused on labor in developing countries, especially in Africa and Latin America. Recent publications include Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism (2007), “Laboring Under an Illusion? Lesotho Designs a ‘Sweat-Free’ Label,” Third World Quarterly (2009), and “What can we learn from Brazil's Pro-Poor Strategies?” Transformation (2010).
Elizabeth Shesko is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Duke University. She is currently completing her dissertation, titled “Conscripting the State: Indigeneity and Gendered Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks, 1900–1964.” The dissertation analyzes the experience of obligatory military service and its profound effect on state formation, citizenship, and indigenous identity in Bolivia. She recently co-organized “Beyond the Battlefield: The Labor of Military Service in Latin America and the Caribbean,” a conference that brought together an international group of scholars working on military labor.
