W. Rand Smith is professor of politics and associate dean of the faculty
at Lake Forest College. He has also taught at the University of
Michigan, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines (Paris), and Institut
d’Études Politiques (Grenoble). The author of Crisis in the French Labor Movement: A Grassroots Perspective (1987), Smith has published articles on French and Spanish political economy in such journals as Politics & Society, Comparative Politics, and West European Politics.