About the Author

A. THOMAS LANE is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the Department of European Studies at Bradford University. He is Deputy Chair of its Baltic Research Unit. He has written books and articles on labor and immigration history, including Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924 (Greenwood, 1987). He has also published on the history and contemporary affairs of the Baltic states and Poland, and is joint editor of Baltic Briefing, a journal for business and government.