Preface

Introduction

JULIE GREENE

BRUCE LAURIE

ERIC ARNESEN

Part I: Politics and the State

1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North

REEVE HUSTON

2. The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Massachusetts

BRUCE LAURIE

3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era

JULIE GREENE

4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism

SHELTON STROMQUIST

5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression

CECELIA F. BUCKI

Part 2: Class and Culture

6. "Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South

TERA W. HUNTER

7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920

GUNTHER PECK

8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures

KATHRYN J. OBERDECK

9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism

KIMBERLEY L. PHILLIPS

Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations

10. "To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and Craft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor

ILEEN A. DEVAULT

11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War I Era

ERIC ARNESEN

12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s

JAMES R. BARRETT

13. The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s

PETER RACHLEFF

Contributors

Index