Michael Goldfield is an American political scientist, author, labor activist, and former student activist. He is a professor of industrial relations and human resources in the department of political science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Research Interests: Industrial Relations; Labor History; Race; The Global Economy; Philosophy of Science and Social Science; Social Movements; History of the Communist Party; Radicalism in the US

Current Projects/Research: The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s; Oxford, revised pb 2022

Longshore Labour and Radicalism Michael Goldfield

Labour / Le Travail, Issue 93, Spring 2024, pp. 329-344 (Review)

The UAW and Southern Organizing:

An Historical Perspective By Joseph van der Naald & Michael Goldfield  NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2024, Against the Current

Moments of Rupture: The 1930s and the Great Depression by Cody R. Melcher and

Michael Goldfield; Moments of Rupture Series, Convergence, edited by Stephanie Luce