James Green

professor, community service, UMass

Professor Green has been teaching undergraduate courses in history and labor studies at Committee for Public Counsel Services since he joined the faculty in 1977. He created the Labor Studies Program in 1981 and served as the first director of the Labor Resource Center in 1995. In recent years he has regularly offered two courses, Working Culture and Society in the US since 1877 and A People's History of Boston. Jim Green is as activist and public historian as well as a scholar and educator. He has written 17 op eds and reviews for the *Boston Globe* as well as articles in periodicals like *The Chronicle of Higher Education*. He has served as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association, the professional association in his field, and he is an associate editor of the association's quarterly journal, *Labor: Studies of Working Class History in the Americas*. Professor Green is the author of six books on labor and social movements including his forthcoming book, *Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America*.