Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British historian, a former editor of New Left Review (1983–1999), and emeritus professor in the department of sociology at Essex University.

Blackburn was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Oxford University and the London School of Economics.

[2] Blackburn is an author of essays on the collapse of Soviet Communism, on the "credit crunch" of 2008, and of books on the history of slavery and on social policy.

He has also published histories of Social Security, and critiques of the "financialisation of everyday life" and of the privatisation of pension provision.

In 1997, he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800.