Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the m

***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California B

"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harr

Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society.