Professor Michael Goldfield

Professor Emeritus

Michael Goldfield is Professor Emeritus and currently senior research fellow at the Fraser Center for Workplace issues at Wayne State University, and also affiliated faculty at the University of Washington Bridges Labor Center. He is a longtime labor and civil rights agitator, and the author of numerous articles and books on labor, race, and the global economy, including The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States; The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics, Labour, Globalisation and the State (with Debdas Banejee); and most recently, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s.