John Marsh is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University and editor of the prizewinning collection You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929–41. Visit John Marsh's website

"As problems of poverty and labor take new forms during the current economic downturn, literary-historical explorations like Marsh's will continue to assume importance. If, as Marsh suggests, both modernists and Americanists tend to 'shy away' from issues of class, then Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys will certainly make us pay due attention." —Sarah Ehlers, University of South Dakota, Against the Current

John Marsh is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University and editor of the prizewinning collection You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929–41. Visit John Marsh's website

"As problems of poverty and labor take new forms during the current economic downturn, literary-historical explorations like Marsh's will continue to assume importance. If, as Marsh suggests, both modernists and Americanists tend to 'shy away' from issues of class, then Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys will certainly make us pay due attention." —Sarah Ehlers, University of South Dakota, Against the Current

John Marsh is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University and editor of the prizewinning collection You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929–41. Visit John Marsh's website

"As problems of poverty and labor take new forms during the current economic downturn, literary-historical explorations like Marsh's will continue to assume importance. If, as Marsh suggests, both modernists and Americanists tend to 'shy away' from issues of class, then Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys will certainly make us pay due attention." —Sarah Ehlers, University of South Dakota, Against the Current