The city of Miami is quintessentially a city of immigrants having grown from a small settlement of 300 in 1896 to a metropolis, by 2006, of nearly 5.5 million, 59 percent of whom were born outside the
The essays in Florida's Working-Class Past pay special attention to gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and social networks. Under the guidance of editors Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss, th
"Not only a fine collection on Florida itself, but also a model of what edited state histories of labor might look like in the future. It is as multiracial (also moving well beyond black and
