Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in

"Obadele-Starks eloquently captures these workers' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle on the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coas

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock laboure