Joyce L. Kornbluh—workers’ educator, labor historian, and community activist—retired from the Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan. She is the author of
A New Deal for Worker’s Education: The Workers’ Service Program, 1934–1943 and co-author of
Rocking the Boat: Union Women’s Voices 1917–1975.
Daniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a co-founder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. Mr. Gross is also the founding director of Brandworkers International, a new non-profit organization protecting and advancing the rights of retail and food employees across the supply chain.
Franklin Rosemont was a celebrated poet, artist, historian, street speaker, co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group, and publisher at Charles H. Kerr. Over four decades, Franklin produced a body of work, of declarations, manifestos, poetry, collage, hidden histories, and other interventions intended to inspire a new generation of revolution, and became perhaps “the most productive scholar of labor and the left in the United States.”
Fred Thompson was a socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher with Charles H. Kerr.