Aaron Benanav is a collegiate assistant professor in the Social Sciences Division and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His book, A Global History of Unemployment, since 1949, is under advance contract with Verso Books.

Anna Birtulescu graduated with a bachelor of science degree at the University of Utah in May 2017. She is currently working as a database analyst in the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.

David Calnitsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Western University. His research interests include work, poverty, social policy, and social theory, and his research has been published in Socio-economic Review, Social Problems, Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, Canadian Review of Sociology, and The Sociological Review.

Evelyn Forget is an economist and professor in community health sciences at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Her research on poverty, indigenous health, political economy and the history of economic thought has appeared in a variety of international economics and health journals.

Hans Otto Frøland is professor of European contemporary history at the Department of Historical Studies, NTNU. His main field of interest is historical political economy. He has published widely on the history of European integration and disintegration.

Larry W. Isaac is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology, Professor of American Studies, and Sociology Department Chair at Vanderbilt University. He is past editor of the American Sociological Review (2010–15) and past president of the Southern Sociological Society. Larry has published numerous articles on topics in political sociology, social movements, labor, and social-historical change. Larry is continuing work on the early labor movement and is also currently working on a co-authored book about the Nashville civil rights movement.

Anna W. Jacobs works in the private sector trying to improve people’s lives at work through research and data analytics. She missed teaching, so she continues to lecture in sociology at Austin Peay State. Her research focuses on people as workers and labor in capitalist society. She studies the working class from three perspectives: political sociology, social movements, and stratification/health.

Tor Georg Jakobsen is professor in political science at NTNU Business School. His fields of interest include political behavior and quantitative methods. Jakobsen has authored articles in, among others, European Sociological Review and European Societies.

Miriam Keesing was an associated researcher at NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam (2008–17). Her current research project is on unaccompanied refugee children from the Third Reich to the Netherlands (Dokin Foundation) (website: www.dokin.nl/).

Jonathan Latner is a postdoctoral research associate at Bamberg Universität. His research interests include social stratification, work and occupations, and urban sociology. He has published in Social Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Problems, City and Community, Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and the Journal of Economic Inequality.

Pablo Ortega-del-Cerro is a substitute lecturer at the University of Murcia (Spain). He studied history and sociology and obtained his PhD and MA degrees in comparative social history at the University of Murcia (Spain). He was a visiting student at the University of Urbino, the University of Cambridge, and the Social Science Institute/University of Lisbon. His area of interest includes social change along the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the making and development of Spanish Naval Officer Corps. He has published some articles in Journal of Family History, European Review of History, Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, and Historical Social.

Peder Berrefjord Osa has a MA in political science from the University of Oslo, and a minor degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He currently works for the National Police Directorate (Norway).

Andrew Simpkin is a research fellow at the University of Bristol with a speciality in analyzing longitudinal data.

Peter Tammes is a senior research associate at the University of Bristol and has extensively published on the position of Jews in Dutch society including a PhD -thesis on differences in local survival chances of Jews during World War II.

Cathleen Zick is a professor of family and consumer studies and associate dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on household time use, public policy, and family well-being. She is the co-author of two books and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.