David Roediger teaches American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. he is the co-author, with Elizabeth Esch, of The Production of Difference (Oxford University Press). His latest book is The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History (OR Books).
The Increasingly Impossible Middle Class
Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
Against the Current, No. 195, July/August 2018
Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
Against the Current, No. 80, May/June 1999
A Working-Class Jokester
Against the Current, No. 49, March/April 1994