Alex Morrow teaches courses on labor, immigration, and American history for the Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, and History majors. His research focuses on the history of labor and capitalism in our region. In particular, this work traces the emergence of an economy that is heavily reliant upon contingent forms of labor, and its consequences for urban development, notions of race, and the potential for labor radicalism. He has been a research fellow at the West Coast Poverty Center and a consultant for Seattle's Museum of History and Industry.