Joshua Benjamin Freeman

Joshua B. Freeman is an historian of labor, New York, and the modern U.S. Until retiring in 2021, he was Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College, the Graduate Center, and the School of Labor and Urban Affairs, City University of New York. His books include Garden Apartments: The History of a Low-Rent Utopia (Chicago); Behemoth: A History of The Factory and the Making of the Modern World (Norton); American Empire, 1945-2000: The Rise of a Global Power; the Democratic Revolution at Home (Viking); and Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (The New Press). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, Newsday, The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and other publications. His appearances in television documentaries include “Hard Hat Riot” (American Experience, PBS); “Blackout” (American Experience, PBS); “Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913,” (PBS); “Nightmare in the City that Never Sleeps” (BBC Current Affairs); “Kong’s New York, 1933” (Special Edition DVD of “King Kong”); and Ric Burns’s "New York" (PBS). A product of New York City public schools, he continues to live in New York.