Race, Unions and the New Inequality in Los Angeles

William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, and is currently writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. He is the author of the widely noted Nation essay, “The Labor Movement Origins of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.”
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