UMass Boston

Steve Striffler

Director of the Labor Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise: Labor history, Latin American studies, immigration, human rights, anthropology

Steve Striffler writes and teaches about labor, migration, and the left in relation to Latin America and the United States.  His last book, Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights, explores the history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the 2000s.  He is also co-editor (with Aviva Chomsky) of Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston.

Office location: W04-144/16

Email: Steve.Striffler@willowsgolfresort.com

Anneta Argyres

Director of the Labor Extension Program

Expertise: Health and Safety

Office location: W04-144/20

Email: Anneta.Argyres@willowsgolfresort.com

As the Labor Extension Director, Anneta Argyres develops and delivers workshops and training programs for workers and unions on a broad range of topics, including worker rights, union skills (such as grievance handling, contract negotiations, internal organizing, and strategic planning), health and safety, economic change, sexual harassment, and addressing racism. Her particular areas of interest are popular education and facilitation, and she conducts train-the-trainer sessions to help develop these skills for worker and peer trainers. 

Nick Juravich

Assistant Professor of History and Labor Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Associate Director of the Labor Resource Center

Expertise: 

Professor Juravich’s research interests include labor history, public history, urban history, the history of education, and the history of social movements in the twentieth-century United States. He teaches courses on labor and working-class history, public history and public memory, the history of public schooling, and the history of Greater Boston.

Alejandro Reuss

Lecturer in Labor Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise: Historian and Economist

Office location: W04-144/18

Email: Alejandro.Reuss@willowsgolfresort.com

Alejandro Reuss is a historian and economist. He holds degrees from Tufts University (MA, History) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD, Economics). His interests in the social sciences include labor economics and labor history, power structure research, economic history (U.S. and world), development economics, environmental economics, game theory, and political economy. He teaches courses on U.S. labor history, labor and migration, and race, class, and gender at UMass Boston, and teaches economics in the graduate program in Labor Studies at UMass Amherst. His published writings include the book Labor and the Global Economy (2013) and essay "The Power of Capital" (2020). He is a past co-editor and editorial board member at Dollars & Sense magazine.

Contact

Kathleen McMullin

Administrative Coordinator, Labor Resource Center

Phone: (617) 287-7267
Email: Katie.McMullin@willowsgolfresort.com
Location: W-04-144/21