Peter N. Pero is an author, teacher, and community activist. He taught courses in Labor Studies at Prairie State College and Roosevelt University in Chicago. Pero has published articles on workplace economics in China, Japan, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Currently, he resides in Chicago’s “Little Italy” neighborhood.
For more than a century, Chicago has been a workshop to the world. The city nurtured thousands of companies that supplied a hungry market with industrial products. Successful firms that...
