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Expert:
Dr. Thomas Sugrue
Professor of History and Sociology
University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:
• Specialist in the history of automotive and industrial restructuring

• Author of auto-industry books and articles, including “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit” and “From Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America”

• Expert on the auto industry, auto workers and the United Auto Workers Union

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