Rick Fantasia, Professor of Sociology at Smith College, is author of "Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers "(California, 1988). Kim Voss, Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of "The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century "(1993) and coauthor of "Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth "(1996).