The Gritty Berkshires

MAYNARD SEIDER taught sociology at the state college in North Adams from 1978-2010 and is the author of A Year in the Life of a Factory.Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in the context of U.S. and global history. Through the use of oral histories, union archives, newspaper accounts and participant observation, the author focuses on the 1,000 men who built the nation's lon