Steve Babson is a Detroit labor historian. His most recent book is Forgotten Populists. When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy (2023). He is a co-author of Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town and Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry. He co-authored, with Dave Riddle and David Elsila The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights.
Choosing History: A Detroit Crucible
Against the Current, No. 244, September/October 2026
The Detroit Left & Social Unionism in the 1930s
Against the Current No. 213, July/August 2021