COVERING LABOR: WRITING ABOUT WORKERS & CLASS POLITICS

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 from 3 to 4:15 p.m.
Lee Hills Hall, 715 Elm Street, Columbia, MO 65211. Room 303
and Zoom

Dan Kaufman is the author of “The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics” (W.W. Norton, 2018). He writes frequently about labor, Midwestern politics, and economic inequality. His second book will be a narrative history of deindustrialization and the creation of the Rust Belt, following five families as they navigate the rise of neoliberalism.

Kaufman is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. His New Yorker article “On the Line,” about the 2023 U.A.W. strike, won a Sidney Award for outstanding journalism from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.