David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois.
Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso\'s Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999..
His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso.
Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He lives in Papa\'aloa, Hawaii.
He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums , City of Quartz , Ecology of Fear , Late Victorian Holocausts , and Magical Urbanism .
His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis .
He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as a new edition of Covington Hall\'s Labor Struggles in the Deep South .
Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon , and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class .
Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S.
David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois