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Introduction 1 Julie Greene, Bruce Laurie, and Eric Arnesen
Part 1: Politics and the State
1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North 19 Reeve Huston
2. The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Masschusetts 45 Bruce Laurie
3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era 71 Julie Greene
4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism 97 Shelton Stromquist
5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression 125 Cecelia F. Bucki
Part 2: Class and Culture
6. "Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South 153 Tera W. Hunter
7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920 175 Gunther Peck
8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures 201 Kathryn J. Oberdeck
9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism 230 Kimberley L. Phillips
Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations
10. "To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and raft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor 259 Ileen A. DeVault
11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War 1 Era 284 Eric Arnesen
12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s 209 James R. Barrett
13. The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s 340 Peter Rachleff
Contributors 363
Index 367
