Kim Moody

Who is Kim Moody?

Kim Moody is an American-born writer on labor who advocates social movement unionism, a revitalized labor movement of mobilized and militant rank-and-file workers rather than business unionism structured from the top down and compromised by coziness with corporations.

In the early 1960s Moody was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society in Baltimore, Maryland, writing an SDS position paper on "Organizing Poor Whites" for the organization's Economic Research and Action Project. He was part of the Independent Socialist Clubs and International Socialists, writing articles and pamphlets on labor.

From 1979 to 2001, Moody served on the staff of Labor Notes magazine in Detroit, which he helped to found in 1979.

He now resides in the U.K. where he is a senior research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire.