Les Leopold

Les Leopold is the co-founder and executive director of the Labor Institute. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Books Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It (2024) Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice (Labor Institute Press, 2015) How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Financial Elites Get Away With Siphoning off America's Wealth (John Wiley and Sons, 2013) The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009) The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006)