Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago (2015) and Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics (2013). He is also co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal, 2015).