Samir Sonti is a historian of U.S. labor and political economy. Prior to arriving at SLU, he held various roles in the labor movement, and since 2019 he has been the Books & Arts editor of New Labor Forum. Dr. Sonti’s current book project examines the politics of inflation in the United States in the twentieth century. Most recently, he is co-editor (with Nelson Lichtenstein) of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today (The New Press, 2025).

 

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