Gay Seidman teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where for many years, her office was next to Erik Wright’s. Her books include Manufacturing Militance and Beyond the Boycott.

Michael Burawoy teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of several books including The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism and most recently Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia. He was a close friend and literary executor of Erik Wright.