Race and Politics in Histories of the 20th-Century US Working Class

A review essay on books by (1) Kenneth D. Durr, Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980 (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Press, 2003); (2) Charles D. Chamberlain, Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II (Athens: U Georgia Press, 2003); (3) Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Press, 2003); & (4) Ruth Needleman, Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism (Cornell: ILR, 2003).