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Steve Striffler
Director of the Labor Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts
Expertise: Labor history, Latin American studies, immigration, human rights, anthropology
Steve Striffler writes and teaches about labor, migration, and the left in relation to Latin America and the United States. His last book, Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights, explores the history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the 2000s. He is also co-editor (with Aviva Chomsky) of Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston.
Office location: W04-144/16
Email: Steve.Striffler@umb.edu
Anneta Argyres
Director of the Labor Extension Program
Expertise: Health and Safety
Office location: W04-144/20
Email: Anneta.Argyres@umb.edu
As the Labor Extension Director, Anneta Argyres develops and delivers workshops and training programs for workers and unions on a broad range of topics, including worker rights, union skills (such as grievance handling, contract negotiations, internal organizing, and strategic planning), health and safety, economic change, sexual harassment, and addressing racism. Her particular areas of interest are popular education and facilitation, and she conducts train-the-trainer sessions to help develop these skills for worker and peer trainers.
Nicole Aschoff
Lecturer in Labor Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Expertise: Labor and Labor Movements
Office location: W04-144/18
Email: Nicole.Aschoff@umb.edu
Nick Juravich
Assistant Professor of History and Labor Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Associate Director of the Labor Resource Center
Expertise:
Professor Juravich’s research interests include labor history, public history, urban history, the history of education, and the history of social movements in the twentieth-century United States. He teaches courses on labor and working-class history, public history and public memory, the history of public schooling, and the history of Greater Boston.
Alejandro Reuss
Lecturer in Labor Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Expertise: Historian and Economist
Office location: W04-144/18
Email: Alejandro.Reuss@umb.edu
Alejandro Reuss is a historian and economist. His interests in the social sciences include labor economics and labor history, power structure research, U.S. economic history, Latin American history, intersections of multiple forms of social inequality, the history of the world economy, the history of economic thought, and Marxian economics. He teaches courses on U.S. labor and working-class history, labor and migration, and race, class, and gender. His published writings include the book Labor and the Global Economy (2013) and essay "The Power of Capital: An Introduction to Class, Domination, and Conflict" (2020). He is a past co-editor and editorial board member at Economic Affairs Bureau Inc., and has written extensively for its publications Dollars & Sense magazine and Real World Economics books.
Contact
Kathleen McMullin
Administrative Coordinator, Labor Resource Center
Phone: (617) 287-7267
Email: Katie.McMullin@umb.edu
Location: W-04-144/21