"Fraser, a scholar of labor history at the University of Miami, corrects several misconceptions....Many more poor white migrants left debt-burdened farms, dead-end jobs and shuttered mills, and ventured north on the 'hillbilly highway' to settle in poor white ghettoes such as Chicago's Uptown, Muncie's Shedtown and Dayton's East End....Fraser also challenges writers who blame poor white southerners for the rise of the anti-union right in the North....The very humane stories in [Hillbilly Highway] could be just the thing to break the ice."–-Arlie Russell Hochschild, New York Times