Among Our Contributors
JUDITH BUBER AGASSI, an Israeli, teaches political science at Haifa University and is a research staff member of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of...
...DOROTHY RABINOWITZ is co-author (with Yedida Nielsen) of Home Life [a story of old age] (1971) and author of The Other Jews: Portraits in Poverty (1972) . Her literary and political essays have appeared in Commentary and other journals...
...JUDITH HERMAN is the coordinator of the National Project on Ethnic America for the American Jewish Committee...
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...PAT WATTERS, director of information for the Southern Regional Council, is the author of The South and the Nation and of Down To Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement, to be published this year by Pantheon Books...
...IRVING M. LEVINE, a longtime civil rights activist, is the director of Urban Projects and of the National Project on Ethnic Affairs for the American Jewish Committee...
...RAY MARSHALL is the chairman of the Department of Economics and director of the Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas, Austin...
...BENNETT KREMEN, a free lance whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, and other publications, is at work on a book about America in a time of confusion...
...STUDS TERXEL—writer, actor, disk jockey, MC at Newport and other music festivals—does his very special interviews both on TV and, among other things, in his own regular program on Chicago's fine-music station WFMT...
...DAVID M. GORDON, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City, researches and writes about economic issues...
...His new book, Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence, will be published this year by Quadrangle Books...
...He has written a number of books and articles on labor economics and minority problems, among them his chapter in Blue Collar Blues, edited by Sar Levitan, and the forthcoming Human Resources and Labor Markets, co-authored with Sar Levitan Acknowledgment Walter Laqueur's article "Zionism, the Marxist Critique, and the Jew," copyright 1971 by DISSENT, which appeared in our December 1971 issue, is part of Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East, Irving Howe and Carl Gershman editors, to be published this spring in paper by Bantam Books and in hardcover by Quandrangle Books, Inc...
...LEWIS CARLINER teaches labor studies at Livingston College, Rutgers University...
...He has written on the French working class and on West Germany, and is at work on two forthcoming books on aspects of the American scene—Class and Politics in the United States, to be published this year by Wiley, and Restraining Myths...
...RICHARD F. HAMILTON teaches sociology at McGill University...
...He now is editor of Union Democracy in Action, a newsletter periodical devoted to civil liberties in the labor movement...
...He is an associate of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs in Washington, D.C., and teaches political science at Mary Washington College in Virginia...
...WALTER GOODMAN has contributed articles to many publications...
...His book of poems for young people, Looking for a Place, was published recently by Lippincott...
...He is presently writing a book on divorce in America, to be published by Dutton...
...H. W. BENSON, as a machinist and toolmaker, was active in several industrial unions...
...ANDREW M. GREELEY is director of the Center for the Study of American Pluralism at the National Opinion Research Center and a lecturer in sociology at the University of Chicago...
...RICHARD J. KRICKUS is presently co-authoring a book, with Vic Fingerhut, on the prospects of the Democratic party in the 1970s...
...Among his books are Why Can't They Be Like Us...
...RICHARD J. MARGOLIS, a free lance, writes on social issues for magazines, foundations, and government...
...GUS TYLER, assistant president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is the author of Organized Crime in America (1962), Labor Revolution (1967), The Political Imperative (1968), and the forthcoming Labor in the Metropolis...
...JOSEPH HILL is a former steelworker turned journalist...
...He is the author of Labor Today (1964) and co-author (with Irving Howe) of UAW and Walter Reuther (1949...
...and Garth Magnum, to be published in March by Harper & Row...
...JOSEPH EPSTEIN'S work has appeared in Commentary, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, and other magazines...
...He is the author, among other books, of All Honorable Men (1963), The Committee (1968), and A Percentage of the Take (1971...
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...JACK BARBASH is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, teaching courses in labor, industrial relations, and socialist thought...
...THOMAS R. BROOKS, a contributor to Dissent and other publications, is the author of Toil and Trouble: A History of Labor (1964), now in a second, revised and enlarged edition (1971...
...JUDITH BUBER AGASSI, an Israeli, teaches political science at Haifa University and is a research staff member of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...DANIEL BELL is a professor of sociology at Harvard and co-editor of the Public Interest...
...JOHN FILIATREAU—a poet and recent recipient of on M.A...
...He is the author, among other works, of Marxian Socialism in the United States (1952) and The End of Ideology (1960), and has two books scheduled for publication this year —The Disjunction of Culture and The Coming of PostIndustrial Society...
...He is a retired UAW staff member and worked in the UAW's departments of Education and International Affairs...
...1971), and, both forthcoming this year, The Denominational Society and A Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish...
...His most recent book, Trade Unions and National Economic Policy, will be published by the Johns Hopkins Press...
...She is at work on a comparative study of blue-collar women...
...LEONARD KRIEGEL, an associate professor of English at the City College of New York, is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and at work on a narrative about the lives of Jewish, Italian, and Irish working-class people in the Bronx...
...His most recent book is Edmund Wilson (1971...
...B. J. WICK teaches industrial relations at Columbia University...
...Among his books are Giants of Jazz (1956), Division Street: America (1967), and Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970...
...in fine arts—is a special-assignment writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal, writing on such subjects as youth, penal institutions, and people in general...
Vol. 19 • January 1972 • No. 1