Michael Seidman (Philadelphia, 1950) is a historian at the University of North Carolina, specializing in social movements and patterns of individual resistance. In addition to the workers against work, he is the author of three other books: A ground level. Social history of the Republic during the Civil War (Alliance, 2003); The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (2004); and National Victory: The counter effectiveness in the Civil War (Alliance, 2012).