David R Roediger Editor & Author

Ronald C. Kent is an education representative for AFSCME in Wisconsin and is the editor for the International Labor History Association. He earned his MS in industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. He is the author of several articles and the editor of a forthcoming volume, Public Sector Union Leaders and Organizers: Oral Histories and Testimonies.

Sara Markham is an independent scholar and a lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her PhD there in 1983. Markham is the author of Workers, Women, and Afro-Americans: Images of the United States in German Travel Literature, from 1923 to 1933.

David R. Roediger is professor of history at the University of Missouri at Columbia. His other books include Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Greenwood, 1989), The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991), and Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred W. Thompson (1992).

Herbert Shapiro is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His other books include White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery (1988) and I Belong to the Working Class: The Unfinished Authobiography of Rose Pastor Stokes (1992).