Roy was my friend for nigh on two decades. I first came across him through his work. Eight Hours is a marvelous book. For mine, it was one of the key books that helped make labor history interesting, that showed that the term could encompass rather…

My friendship with Roy goes back more than a quarter century. We met at the Radical History Review in the late 1970s, where we were both editors, hit it off pretty quickly because we were both interested in non-traditional ways to do history, and…