Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, the preeminent journal for labor historians. He is the author or editor of a dozen university press books, including, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (Duke, 2017); The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Promise of a New World Order (Penn, 2015); and Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (UNC, 2011). He has written for the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Dissent, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, and NEH Fellow.
