Stan Weir (academic)

Stan Weir (1921–2001) was an influential blue-collar intellectual, socialist, and labor leader. A rank-and-file worker for most of his life, Weir worked as a seaman in the Merchant Marine during World War II, as an auto worker, longshoreman, truck driver, and painter, before taking a position at the University of Illinois, where he taught courses to union locals. In the 1980s he co-founded Singlejack Books, a publishing house for worker writers. A close friend to James Baldwin, Staughton Lynd and C.L.R. James, Weir was at the forefront of much of the labor movement during the second half of the twentieth century.

References

• Voices from the Rank and File: Remembering Marty Glaberman and Stan Weir by Staughton Lynd, from Viewpoint Magazine
• In Memoriam: Stan Weir, 1921-2001 (https://libcom.org/library/memoriam-stan-weir-1921-2001)
• Weir, Stan. Singlejack Solidarity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8166-4294-6
• Weir, Stan. "The informal work group," Rank and File: Personal Histories of Working-Class Organizers, ed. Lynd, A. and R.S. Lynd (Princeton: 1973, 1981, 2014), pages 179-200.