Contributors

JAMES CRONIN is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain. Currently he is completing a work entitled Labour and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain, to be published next year.

GARY CROSS teaches history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Immigrant Workers in Industrial France: The Making of a New Laboring Class. Currently he is engaged in a study of the workday, leisure, and economic change in Western Europe from 1880 to 1950.

MELVYN DUBOFSKY is Professor of History and Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of numerous books and articles on American working-class history, among them We Shall Be All, on the IWW, John L. Lewis, a biography of John Lewis (with Warren Van Tine), and When Workers Organize, on New York City in the Progressive Era.

STEVE FRASER is Senior Social Science Editor at Basic Books. He is the author of “Dress Rehearsal for the New Deal,” in Working-Class America, edited by Michael Frisch and Daniel Walkowitz. Currently he is working on a biography of Sidney Hillman.

DAVID MONTGOMERY is Farnam Professor of History at Yale University. He has written widely on American working-class history, and is the author of Beyond Equality: Labor and Radical Republicans, 1862–1872 and Workers’ Control in America.

MARY NOLAN teaches history at New York University. She is the author of Social Democracy in Society: Working Class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890–1920. Currently she is working on economic rationalization in Germany in the 1920s.

LARRY PETERSON received a Ph.D. from Columbia University with a dissertation on the labor union policies of the German Communist Party in the 1920s. He has published articles on comparative labor history and the German workers’ movement. Currently he is working on international Communist labor union policies between 1918 and 1936. He works for a publishing company in New York City.

WILLIAM ROSENBERG is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian history, among them Liberals in the Russian Revolution and Transforming Russia and China (with Marilyn Young). Currently he is working on labor and politics in revolutionary Russia and editing Bolshevik Visions, on the cultural revolution.

CARMEN SIRIANNI is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author of Workers’ Control and Socialist Democracy: the Soviet Experience. He has also written articles on the democratization of the state and economy, and on critical problems in Marxist theory. Currently he is working on the dynamics of industrial democracy in the twentieth century from a comparative perspective.