Les Leopold

LES LEOPOLD is a labor educator, co-founder of the Labor Institute, and the author of several books, including Wall Street’s War on Workers, Runaway Inequality and How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour.

His biography of labor leader Tony Mazzocchi, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor, won the Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for best biography in 2008. Leopold holds degrees from Oberlin College and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

When he’s not writing, Leopold directs the Public Health Institute and leads the Labor Institute, a nonprofit he founded in 1976 that designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment, and economics for unions, worker centers, and community organizations.

Les Leopold’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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