On Race + Class and the Workers Left Behind by the Democratic Party

'In a far-ranging interview, historian Judith Stein examines the political and economic fates of Black and White workers across the 20th century - from the racial integration of organized labor as Blacks moved from agricultural to industrial work, to the Democratic party's abandonment of pro-working class policies as it shifted to the right in an effort to court suburban White collar voters in the 1980s and 90s. Stein was interview by Connor Kilpatrick for the Jacobin piece Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?.'