William Jones

William P. Jones, author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He is writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy.

Currently

  • Obama's New Deal

    November 13, 2008

    Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.

2006

  • Working-Class Hero

    January 11, 2006

    While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who believed civil rights and labor rights are tightly intertwined.

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