Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books, 2016), and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto, 2018).

Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of They Say Cutback, We Say Fightback! and co-editor of Wages of Empire.