Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada

Barry Eidlin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Montréal. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Sociology Compass, and Labor History, among other venues, and has won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. He also comments regularly in various media outlets on labor politics and policy, including The Washington Post, Jacobin, and The Conversation.

Micah Uetricht is an associate editor at Jacobin magazine. He’s the author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity, a book about the Chicago Teachers Union and their 2012 strike, and currently a graduate student in sociology at McGill University, where he is studying the labor movement.