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Work in Black and White deftly weaves Black and White workers' sense making of their labor market insecurities with clear historical and demographic analyses. 'Stories have the power to make inequality legitimate, ' the authors write and go on to document the commonalities and divergence in stories told by educated men and women. While Black and White workers share aspirations for security, they part ways on how to understand the barriers to achieving it. Black workers recognize continuities in racism and White nepotism but also tend to believe they have some control over their own futures. Whites misperceive their precarity as a loss of racial privilege, while being blind to their advantaged reliance on White networks to get and keep jobs. Both groups embrace myths around hard work, education, and meritocracy and so are unable to imagine, much less generate, a political agenda to deal with the profound structural weaknesses of the U.S. economy. Read this book. -- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, professor of sociology and director, Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Work in Black and White reminds us that leaving school is just the beginning of the struggle for economic security. For experienced workers, every recession is a new threat and each recovery is a challenge to past accomplishments. And, of course, nothing works the same for women and men or Blacks and Whites. Enobong Hannah Branch and Caroline Hanley build a case for employment policy that goes beyond credentials and self-reliance; America needs to reset the imbalance between workers and employers. --Michael Hout, professor of sociology and director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University Enobong Hannah Branch and Caroline Hanley have written an insightful book that documents just how fragile the American Dream is and always has been for Black workers. Anyone who wants to understand the complex, nuanced relationship between race, gender, and economic insecurity needs to pick up Work in Black and White immediately. -- Adia Wingfield, vice dean of faculty development and diversity, professor of sociology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

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