Ben Becker is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He can be reached at bbecker@gc.cuny.edu.

Graciela Bensusán is a professor and researcher at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)-Xochimilco, Mexico City.  She is a specialist in institutions, organizations, and labor policy from a comparative perspective and can be reached at gbensusan@gmail.com.

Anita Chan is a research professor at the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. She recently co-authored Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (2009). Much of her research involves Chinese and Vietnamese labor issues, and she is currently researching the Chinese auto industry. She can be reached at anita.chan@uts.edu.au.

Marc Dann is a Cleveland lawyer who focuses on issues of labor, employment, consumer fraud, and corporate crime. He served in the Ohio Senate and as Ohio Attorney General. He can be reached at mdann@dannlaw.com.

Liza Featherstone is a contributing writer at the Nation and her writing on labor issues has appeared in Slate, Salon, Newsday, the New York Times, and many other publications. She is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart and the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops. She teaches in the Union Semester program at the Murphy Institute and in NYU’s journalism school. She can be reached at lfeather@panix.com.

Mary Margaret Fonow is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is the author of Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America and the forthcoming Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor. She can be reached at MaryMargaret.Fonow@asu.edu.

Steve Fraser is a historian, an editor, and a writer working on a book comparing America’s two gilded ages. He can be reached at fraser927@aol.com.

Joshua B. Freeman teaches history at Queens College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Murphy Institute. He is currently writing a history of the United States since World War II and can be reached at JFreeman@gc.cuny.edu.

Gary Gerstle teaches history at Vanderbilt University and can be reached at gary.gerstle@vanderbilt.edu.

Sy Hoahwah is Yappithuka Comanche/Southern Arapahoe. He grew up in Oklahoma and other parts of the Southern Plains. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and can be reached at syhoahwah@gmail.com.

Bob Master is the Legislative and Political Director for District One of the Communications Workers of America, which covers 160,000 telecommunications, public, health care, and other workers from Maine to New Jersey. He also co-chairs the New York State Working Families Party and plays a leadership role in the New Jersey Working Families Alliance. He can be reached at rmaster@cwa-union.org.

Peter Oresick is a poet whose most recent book is Warhol-o-rama. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing (Low Residency) at Chatham University. He has co-edited two anthologies of poetry about work with Nicholas Coles, For a Living: The Poetry of Work and Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. He can be reached at peteroresick@gmail.com.

Craig Paulenich is the author of Drift of the Hunt and was co-editor of Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry. He’s an associate professor of English at Kent State University, and faculty with the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. He can be reached at cpauleni@kent.edu.

Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He can be reached at pollin@econs.umass.edu.

Katie Quan is associate chair of the UC-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, where she heads leadership development programs. For the past several years she has worked on research and education programs with low-wage workers in China. She can be reached at kquan@berkeley.edu.

Adolph Reed is Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored and edited several books, most recently Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African-American Thought (2010). He can be reached at alreed2@earthlink.net.

Ian Robinson is a lecturer and research scientist in the Department of Sociology and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. His research and writing, and his labor activism, center on strategies for increasing the political power of an inclusive, democratic, and solidaristic labor movement in North America and around the world. He can be reached at e.ian.robinson@gmail.com.

Jeffrey S. Rothstein is an assistant professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University.  His research examines the impact of globalization on labor relations and the organization of work in the U.S. and Mexico. He can be reached at rothstej@gvsu.edu.

Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Nation, the Village Voice, and Artforum, he is the author of many books, including Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. He can be reached at andrew.ross@nyu.edu.

Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He is author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, and co-author of Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century. He is a political columnist for the Baltimore Sun, a blogger for fivethirtyeight.com, and can be reached at schaller67@gmail.com.

Chris Tilly is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA. He does research on low-wage work and how it could be improved in the United States, Mexico, and globally. He can be reached at tilly@ucla.edu.

Matt Witt is the director of the American Labor Education Center and coordinates TheWorkSite. org, a website that provides educational tools for more effective communications and grassroots organizing. He can be reached at mwitt@amlabor.org.

Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches labor and ethnic studies. He was the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and has been involved in global solidarity work in China and Vietnam. He can be reached at kentwong@ucla.edu.