Frank K. Clarke taught in the department of history at York University. His article "Debilitating Divisions: The Civil Liberties Movement in Early Cold War Canada, 1946-48" was published in Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse and Mercedes Steedman, ed. Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and The Creation of Enemies (Toronto 2000).

Victor G. Devinatz is Professor of Management at Illinois State University. He has published articles in US labor history/labor relations, and High-Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor (1999).

Alvin Finkel is Professor of History at Athabasca University and English-language book review editor of Labour/Le Travail.

Chris Frazer is a PhD candidate in history at Brown University and a member of the United Auto Workers.

Tom Langford is a political sociologist at the University of Calgary. He is writing a book on the politics of child care in Alberta, 1940 to the present.

Andrée Lévesque est spécialisée en histoire des femmes et en histoire du mouvement communiste. Elle tente toujours de mener de front son travail d’historienne et son engagement dans la critique du néolibéralisme. Son dernier livre était: Scène de la vie en rouge. L’époque de Jeanne Corbin 1906-1944, (Montréal1999).

John Manley teaches United States and Canadian History at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. He is currently working on a biography of Tim Buck and a study of Americanism and anti-Americanism in Britain.

John McIlroy is a Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester, England. Together with Alan Campbell, he is co-editor of the two-volume British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-1979 (Aldershot 1999) and Party People, Communist Lives (London 2001).

Ester Reiter is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and the School of Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Winnipeg in 1968. She writes regularly for the Outlook, and is the author of Making Fast Food, based on a participant observation study of Burger King.

Bernice Schrank is a Professor of English Language and Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is author of Sean O’Casey: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport 1996) and numerous articles on Irish and American literature.

Gerald Tulchinsky is the author of Branching Out. The Transformation of the Canadian Jewish Community (Stoddart 1998). He teaches in the Department of History at Queen’s University where he heads the Jewish Studies program.