Industrial workers know their unions can’t stop plant closures

Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 in New Albany, Indiana – November 1, 1970 in New York City) was an American sociologist born in New Albany, Indiana. He was a professor of sociology at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937)[1], which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States. Lynd attended college at Princeton University and earned a divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. After working as a chaplain in Elk Basin, Wyoming, at a Rockefeller oil camp, Lynd wrote the article "Done in Oil" as an expose of the conditions there. This publication and his community work brought Lynd to the attention of the Rockefeller family and resulted in his being hired for the Middletown community study by the Rockefeller Institute of Social and Religious Research[2]. Subsequent to the study of Muncie, Lynd earned a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University, using an abridged version of Middletown as his dissertation. Staughton Lynd, a lawyer and historian noted for anti-war, civil rights and community activism, was one of two children of Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Lynd.
John L. Lewis and His Critics: Some Forgotten Labor History That Still Matters Today
Staughton Lynd reviews IWW in its Heyday and its author, Eric Chester, replies
It was an evening late in August 1968. I was in the bathtub. Believing that the critical issue at the national Democratic…
Review of “People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky”
American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century By Leilah Danielson Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014…
A review of Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908-1938, ed. and translated by Mitchell Abidor
Latin American Movements and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn are the subjects of books being reviewed in this issue.
Review of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary, by Lara Vapnek
This book, with this central theme, could not have appeared at a more appropriate moment. The United States government has initiated a program, planned to extend over several years, to celebrate the Vietnam War