Bob Bussel

Bob Bussel is a Professor Emeritus of History and the former director of the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon.

Bussel has spent over five decades working with and researching the union movement, including 10 years on the staff of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers and 30 years as a university-based labor educator.

He has published numerous articles on labor history and contemporary labor issues in both academic and popular publications. His first book, From "Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class, appeared in 1999." His latest book, "Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship," was published in 2015.