Michael Hillard is author of Shredding Paper: Labor and The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry, published by Cornell University’s ILR Press imprint. His essay, “Labor at Mother Warren,” won the Labor History’s “Best Essay, U.S. Topic” prize for 2004; his article “Capitalist Class Agency and the New Deal Order,” co-authored with Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island) won the Review of Radical Political Economics Best Essay award for 2013. Besides his primary researches, is work interprets scholarship on the history of US capitalism and labor for multidisciplinary and popular audiences. He and Dr. McIntyre are currently writing a book length monograph called “Burning Down Your House: with expected publication in 2025/26.