Alex Gourevitch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His first book, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century, showed how the critique of slavery developed into a critique of wage-labor and a defense of any economy based on producer cooperatives. He has written widely on topics like work, freedom, political economy, Marxism, and socialism. His current book project is on the political ethics of strikes. He is also working on a book on shared-labor socialism.