Peter Ranis is professor emeritus in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His current research interests include the uses of eminent domain on behalf of the working class and cooperative movements in the US, Argentina and Cuba. He has over eighty publications in various fields of social science in such journals as Monthly Review, Journal of Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Desarrollo Economico, Latin American Politics and Society, Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Socialism and Democracy, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Current History, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Civilisations, Polity, New Political Science and America-at-Work. He has published four books, among them Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina (1995) and Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness (1992).