Notes on the Contributors

Introduction

Empire, Race and Working-class Mobilizations

David Montgomery

`Mexican Labour' in a `White Man's Town': Racialism, Imperialism and Industrialization in the Making of Arizona, 1840-1905

A. Yvette Huginnie

The `Lady' Telephone Operator: Gendering Whiteness in the Bell System, 1900-70

Venus Green

The Elusive Irishman: Ethnicity and the Postwar World of New York City and London Dockers

Colin J. Davis

A Racialized Hierarchy of Labour? Race, Immigration and the British Labour Movement, 1880-1950

Kenneth Lunn

Racism and Resistance in British Trade Unions, 1948-79

Satnam Virdee

Colonial Labour and Work Palaver: Labour Conflict in Britain and West Africa

Diane Frost

Becoming `Men', Becoming `Workers': Race, Gender and Workplace Struggle in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1937-49

Carolyn A. Brown

`Did Not Come to Work on Monday': the East London Waterfront in Comparative Perspective, c. 1930-63

Gary Minkley

Back to Work: Categories, Boundaries and Connections in the Study of Labour

Frederick Cooper

Index