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Tobias Higbie is Professor of History and Labor Studies at the University of California Los Angeles, and the Director of the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment. His research focuses on the history of organized labor, social movement education, and immigration in the United States. Higbie is the author of Labor's Mind: A History of Working-class Intellectual Life (2019) and Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest (2003), as well as articles on immigrant workers, print culture, and robots. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is a member of the American Federation of Teachers.
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