The twentieth-century Southern racial political order is conventionally seen as a product of tenant farming and economic stagnation. This article argues that class and racial struggles in agriculture had a variety of effects, some enhancing white political advantage while others undermined it,...

Conventional approaches to variations in occupational injury rates in the United States rest for the most part on neoclassical and rational-choice assumptions that obscure the fact that injury rates are political phenomena. This paper develops an alternative model that explains injury rates in...