Barry Eidlin is an associate professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada. Between 1997 and 2003, prior to embarking on his academic training, he worked on the staff of Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
Labor
Union Reformers Made Labor History in 2023. They're Just Getting Started.
A resurgence of labor militancy at UPS and the Big Three led to some of the best contracts in decades—but workers have even bigger ambitions for the year ahead.
Barry Eidlin
Labor
Understanding the Existential Threat Trump Poses to a Beleaguered Labor Movement
Barry Eidlin
Labor
In the UAW, Rising Academic Worker Unionism Is Haunted By the Ghost of Walter Reuther
Barry Eidlin
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