This chapter examines how white working-class men cope with their inability to sustain the masculine legacy of provision, protection, and courage that they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers. Some white men struggling to provide for their families put dignity, fairness, and economic justice for workers at the center of their politics, criticizing politicians who have failed to fight for workers’ rights. These men feel frustrated by the lack of social recognition for their persistent struggle, personal integrity, and generosity toward others. To compensate, they exclude racial minorities, immigrants, refugees, and nonworkers from their vision of collective bounty. Among other working-class men, particularly those who have never known a social contract between labor and business, hard work and self-sacrifice remain at the center of their identities. Glorifying their own suffering, their harshest scorn is reserved for those who succumb to dependence. A few men detach masculinity from wage-earning, stoicism, and aggressiveness, searching for new foundations on which to anchor the masculine self.