Author: Jefferson Cowie

Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, fin...

Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sini...