Sam Gindin

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In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives isbn: 9781604863475 (EPUB), 9781604863468 (MOBI) formats: epub mobi published: 05/2010 pages: 144 price: 7.00 euros

Sam Gindin was born in Siberia, grew up in Winnipeg, went to graduate school in Madison, Wisconsin and spent most of his working life in Toronto as Research Director, then Assistant to the President, of the Canadian Autoworkers-CAW. Since his retirement from the union in 2000, he has been the Visiting Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University. He remains active in the labour and social movements as a member of the Socialist Project and the recently-formed GreaterToronto Workers’ Assembly. His writings have focused on the CAW, the auto industry, the crisis in organized labour in Canada and the US, and the political economy of American capitalism. He is currently working on a book with his life-long friend and frequent co-author, Leo Panitch, on the making of global capitalism.