Dan Swinney

Dan founded Manufacturing Renaissance (MR) in 1982 in response to the thousands of manufacturing plant closings in the Chicago area. At the beginning, the organization’s work was focused on industrial retention efforts. Dan led a team that studied hundreds of companies and worked on dozens of campaigns with local unions, community-based organizations and the City of Chicago under the Harold Washington administration to save industrial jobs. Dan was one of the founders of the Labor Research Review, a journal published between 1982 – 1994. LRR was a highly regarded forum for analysis, criticism and strategic thinking on the American labor movement in the late 20th century.