Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction by
Herbert G. Gutman
1 CALL YOUR OLD MASTER—"MASTER": SOUTHERN POLITICAL LEADERS AND NEGRO LABOR DURING PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
Thomas Wagstaff
2 NEGRO LABOR IN THE WESTERN CATTLE INDUSTRY, 1866–1900
Kenneth W. Porter
3 BLACK WORKERS AND LABOR UNIONS IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 1897–1904
Paul B. Worthman
4 LABOR CONFLICT AND RACIAL VIOLENCE: THE BLACK WORKER IN CHICAGO, 1894–1919
William M. Tuttle, Jr.
5 THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION AND THE WARTIME MOBILIZATION OF BLACK AMERICANS, 1917–1918
Jane Lang Scheiber and Harry N. Scheiber
6 CLOSED SHOP AND WHITE SHOP: THE NEGRO RESPONSE TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, 1933–1935
Raymond Wolters
7 RACE, CLASS, AND PROGRESS: BLACK LEADERSHIP AND INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM, 1936–1945
James S. Olson
Index