This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development

The racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"—an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers—is a familiar

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

In The Poverty of Work, Van Arsdale offers ethnographic and historical accounts of employment agency labor. Employing sixty million temporary workers globally a

DIVA provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth /div