Frank Bardacke was active in the student and antiwar movements in Berkeley in the 1960s. He moved to California's Central Coast in 1970, worked for six seasons in the Salinas Valley fields, and taught at Watsonville Adult School for twenty-five years. In addition to Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (Brooklyn, 2012), he is the author of Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons: Land, Labor, and Politics in the Pajaro Valley (Santa Cruz, CA, 1994) and translator of Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (New York, 1994).

Verity Burgmann is an honorary professorial fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has published widely in the fields of labor history, protest movements, environmental politics, and radical political ideologies. Her twelve books include “In Our Time”: Socialism and the Rise of Labor (Sydney, 1985); Power and Protest (Sydney, 1993); Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (New York, 1995); Green Bans, Red Union (Sydney, 1998); Power, Profit and Protest (Sydney, 2003); and Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia (Melbourne, 2012). She is currently researching international labor movement responses to globalization.

Chris King-Chi Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He gained his PhD at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely in the area of Chinese labour; including the book The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories (New York, 2010) and articles in journals such as China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Industrial Relations, and Community Development Journal.

Peter Cole is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Champaign, 2013). He also has published on rural deindustrialization in the US Midwest, teaching international films in an urban US history course, and the racial politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States (with Lucien van der Walt). His current book project is The Buffalo Are Strong: Labor, Race and Technology on the Durban and San Francisco Bay Area Waterfronts, 1950–2010. Some of this research will appear in the International Review of Social History, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, and Labor.

Ralph Darlington is a Professor of Employment Relations at Salford University, UK. He has written extensively on trade union organization and activity in both historical and contemporary contexts and is the author of The Dynamics of Workplace Unionism (London, 1994), The Political Trajectory of J.T. Murphy (Liverpool, 1998), Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972 (London, 2001) (with Dave Lyddon), and Syndicalism and the Transition to Communism: An International Comparative Analysis (Aldershot, 2008). He also edited What's the Point of Industrial Relations?: In Defence of Critical Social Science (Manchester, 2009).

Matt Garcia is the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He also directs the Comparative Border Studies Program. He is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001) and From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement (Berkeley, CA, 2012).

Lise Grande joined the United Nations in 1994. She has served in ten countries including Sudan, South Sudan, Occupied Palestine, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, East Timor, Armenia and Tajikistan. Ms. Grande is currently serving as the head of UN operations in India.

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 (Dordrecht, 2011). 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.

Sean Jacobs is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Media Concentration in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School. He is a native of South Africa.

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.

Daniel Magaziner is an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches twentieth-century African history. The author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977 (Athens, OH, 2010), he is currently writing the history of art education in twentieth-century South Africa.

Romulo Costa Mattos has a doctoral degree in social history from Brazil's Universidade Federal Fluminense with a specialization in urban history, focusing on the subject of popular housing in Rio de Janeiro. He is a professor of the history of the Brazilian Republic in the History Department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro and the author of many articles and book chapters on the subject, as well as a doctoral thesis entitled, Pelos Pobres! As campanhas pela construção de habitações populares e o discurso sobre as favelas na Primeira República [For the Poor! Campaigns for the Construction of Popular Housing and the Discourse on Favelas in the First Brazilian Republic].

Behrooz Moazami is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Middle East Peace Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. Moazami, an Iranian political activist, has two doctorates: the first is in political science (University of Paris VIII, 1998) and the second in sociology and historical studies (New School for Social Research, 2004). Before joining academia he worked as a journalist, essayist, and coeditor of various dissident publications. His book State, Religion and Revolution in Iran 1796 to the Present is forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan Press.

Miriam Pawel is a journalist and independent scholar who has researched and written about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union for the past eight years, first as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and then as the author of a narrative history of the farm worker movement, The Union of Their Dreams (New York, 2009). She was awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete her current project, a biography of Chavez.

Lara Putnam is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in the history of barriers and connections in the modern world, with particular attention to labor migration, racism, and family ties. Her publications include Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (Chapel Hill, NC, 2013); The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2002); and “To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World,” Journal of Social History 39 (2006).

Xavier Domènech Sampere, a historian and Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) since 2005, is a member of the Centre d'Estudis sobre les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica (CEFID–UAB). His lines of research include the relationship among social movements and political transition, as well as the study of building the transition's memory and the Spanish Civil War. He is the author of many books, including Quan el carrer va deixar de ser seu. Moviment obrer, societat civil i canvi polític a Sabadell (Barcelona, 2002), Temps d'Interseccions. Una història de la Joventut Comunista de Cataluña (Barcelona, 2007), Quan plovien Bombes. La Guerra Civil i els bombardeigs de Barcelona (Barcelona 2007), Clase Obrera, antifranquismo y cambio político (2008), Lucha de clases, dictadura y democracia (1939–1977) [Political Change and the Labor Movement under Francoism. Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy 1939–1977] (Madrid, 2012).

Sjaak van der Velden, an independent Dutch researcher of history is affiliated with the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. He wrote his PhD thesis on strikes in the Netherlands in 2000 and has written numerous articles and books since. Together with Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, and Kurt Vandaele, also edited Strikes Around the World: Case Studies of 15 Countries (Amsterdam, 2007) in 2007. In 2011, van der Velden was co-organizer of the Lisbon conference, Strikes and Social Conflicts in the XXth Century. In 2012 he published, together with Jim Docherty, The Historical Dictionary on Organized Labor (Lanham, MD, 2012), and also edited Striking Numbers: New Approaches to Strike Research (Amsterdam, 2012).

Raquel Varela is a labor historian and a researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon New University), where she coordinates the Study Group on Labour and Social Conflicts. She has a PHD in Political and Institutional History from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and is an Honorary Fellow of the International Institute for Social History, where she co-coordinates the international project, “In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (1950–2010).” Varela is president of the International Association on Strikes and Social Conflicts and the author of Quem Paga o Estado Social em Portugal (Lisboa, 2012), Revolução ou Transição? História e Memória da Revolução dos Cravos (Lisboa, 2012), História do PCP na Revolução dos Cravos (Lisboa, 2011), O Fim das Ditaduras Ibéricas 1974–1978 (Seville and Lisbon, 2010). She has published articles in XX Century Communism, Revista O Fim das Ditaduras Ibéricas (1974–1978), Brasileira de História, Hispania, Revolutionary Russia, Análise Social, Ler História, Esmelét, and Historia del Presentea, among others. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ITH-International Conference of Labour and Social History, Vienna, Austria.