Steve Babson is author of Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Wayne State University Press, 1986), Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the R...view moreSteve Babson is author of Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Wayne State University Press, 1986), Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW, and The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present. He is also the editor of Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry (Wayne State University Press, 1995) and Confronting Change: Auto Labor and Lean Production in North America.Dave Riddle is a former truck driver and Teamster member who has lived in Detroit for nearly forty years. His work as a historian has focused on the politics of race and class in Detroit’s blue-collar suburbs. David Elsila worked in the labor movement for thirty years as a labor journalist, including twenty-two years as editor of Solidarity, the national publication of the UAW. He has been an instructor of journalism at Wayne State University and has served on the boards of the Metro Detroit ACLU, Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice, and the Cranbrook Peace Foundation. He is co-author of Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Wayne State University Press, 1986), with Steve Babson, Ron Alpern, and John Revitte.view less