Alex Lichtenstein

Alex Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor (Verso, 1996), a study of the political economy of black convict labor in the post-Civil War American South. He has also published articles, essays, and reviews on slavery, sharecropping, convict coal-mining, chain gangs, and interracial unionism. Currently he is working on a book-length project on race, radicalism, and industrial unionism in Florida during the 1940s and 1950s, as well as a study of labor under apartheid.

He has been a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town. Lichtenstein is currently an Associate Professor of History at Florida International University.











Safundi
c/o Andrew Offenburger
Department of History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324

Safundi Book Reviews
c/o Shane Graham
shane.graham@usu.edu
(435) 797-2719