Dr. Michael Hillard is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Southern Maine. He is author of Shredding Paper: Labor and The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry (published by Cornell); he is currently collaborating with Dr. Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island) on a book entitled “Burning Down Your House: Confronting America’s Exceptional Capitalist Class.” He won Labor History’s Best Article award in 2004 and <Review of Radical Political Economics’ Best Essay award for 2013. He has been an active collaborator with the labor movement since the 1970s, most recently collaborating with the successful effort to create the Charles Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education at the University of Southern Maine which is now in its second year.
