Part I: Insubordinates: servants and slaves in a militarized age. Places of labor's "hard usage" in the South before slavery
Memory and misery: white servants and the origins of slavery in the South
The work of insurrection: black and white labor in the eighteenth-century South
"Domestik enemies": bound laborers in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1620-1776
The emergence of free labor, fettered in the North
American work: a photo essay
Part II: Workers and overworkers: black and white labor in the era of slavery. Black and white hands in a slaveholders' republic, 1790-1860
The racial politics of Southern labor in peacetime and war, 1820-1870
White men "in a tight place": black poverty and black protest in the antebellum North
White citizens and black denizens: workers in the North during the era of the Civil War.Part III: The rise and decline of the racialized machine: technological and political change in the workplace. The modernization of prejudice: economic change and the social division of labor, 1870-1930
Can you see a tomorrow there? industrial transformation and Federal civil rights legislation, 1929-1978
Industrial devolution and the persistence of the "race watch" at the end of the twentieth century
Families, fraternities, and sites of diversity: affirmative action in historical perspective.
