Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
Contents
"Strangers" and other workers in the seventeenth-century colonies -- "Be sure to come free": workers in the eighteenth century -- Crosscurrents of slavery and freedom in the antebellum South -- The northern laboring classes at odds with one another, before and during the civil war -- Idealogies of race in a modernizing economy: the cases of African-American and Chinese workers -- The laboring classes in turn-of-the-century America -- The rise of the state in depression and war: the American workforce, 1916-1945 -- American workers and the new world order in the second half of the twentieth century.
