Sam Gindin

Sam Gindin
Sam Gindin in 2012
Born	Kaminsky Ural, Siberia, former Soviet Union
Occupation	Activist, writer
Nationality	Canadian
Education	MA (economics) University of Wisconsin–Madison
Genres	Essays, books
Subjects	global capitalism, trade unions, socialism
Notable work	Co-author: The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (2012)
Spouse	Schuster Gindin

Sam Gindin was born in Kaminsky Ural, Siberia in the former Soviet Union. He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a Canadian intellectual and activist known for his expertise on the labour movement and the economics of the automobile industry. Gindin is a graduate of the University of Manitoba. He obtained his MA in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Although he worked as a researcher for the New Democratic Party of Manitoba and taught at the University of Prince Edward Island, Gindin spent most of his working life as the director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers union from 1974 until his retirement in 2000. From 1985 until 2000, he served as assistant to the president of the union, both Bob White and Buzz Hargrove. He participated in collective bargaining, the formation of union and social policy and strategic discussions on the structure and direction of the union. He also wrote a book on the history of the CAW entitled The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union.

Gindin's writings have focused on the CAW, the auto industry, the crisis in organized labour in Canada and the US, and the political economy of capitalism. In 2012, he published The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire, which he co-wrote with his lifelong friend, Leo Panitch. The book traces the development of American-led globalization over more than a century. In 2013, it was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in the U.K. for best and most creative work in or about the Marxist tradition and in 2014, it won the Rik Davidson/SPE Book Prize for the best book in political economy by a Canadian.