Les Leopold is a longtime labor educator, author, political economist, and co-founder and executive director of The Labor Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to worker education, union activism, and economic and environmental reform.
Raised in a working-class family of war refugees, Leopold studied at Oberlin College and earned a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University. He later worked closely with visionary labor leader Tony Mazzocchi, a pioneer of the occupational safety movement and an early advocate for a Labor Party.
Leopold is the author of several acclaimed books on labor, economic inequality, and political power, including Runaway Inequality, How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour, Wall Street’s War on Workers, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor, and The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own.
You can find Les Leopold's Substack here, and you can find more information about his newest book, The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own here.
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