Christopher Famighetti is a PhD candidate in the New School’s Public and Urban Policy Program, a teaching fellow at the New School, a lecturer in social policy at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY, and an affiliate graduate researcher at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. He is a mixed-methods researcher, studying the intersections of racial capitalism, political economy and social stratification. During his fellowship year at the Heilbroner Center, he will undertake a sectorial study of the racial dynamics of labor union decline in the United States, while theoretically considering the internal contradictions of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of capitalism and post-war American liberalism.