Miles Roby, the heir to a ruined Maine logging and paper mill empire, tries to hold his family together and provide for his parents.

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures.

Upton Sinclair's whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century.

Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening ...

In an Afterword to this second edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself--then surveys criticism of his work. He accepts the views of some critics but challenges others.

This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia.

The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.

Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.