E. Paul Durrenberger was Professor of Anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa before moving to Penn State. He has published many influential articles and books.
Suzan Erem is a freelance writer for unions and author of Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement (Monthly Review Press 2001). They are coauthors of Class Acts: An Anthropology of Service Workers and Their Union (Paradigm 2005).