Norman Best retired in 1972, returned to college, and later taught U. S. labor history at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts. He lives in Ellensburg, Washington, with his wife, Catherine. In his introduction, William G. Robbins, a professor of history at Oregon State University at Corvallis, celebrates the passionate yet genial man who has written social history from his own experience. He is the author of Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West.
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"This book is more than just the story of a working man's life of toil, joys and troubles. . . . This is also the memoir of a union activist fighting for industrial democracy, quality craftsmanship and self-actualization through work."-American West