Labor in colonial America : the bound and the free -- Legacies of conquest -- Indentured labor in British colonies -- Slavery -- Free labor -- Unruly labor -- The American Revolution -- From resistance to independence -- The people's war and the gentlemen's republic -- Republican legacies -- Slavery and freedom in the new republic -- "If you can't fight, kick" -- Wage workers and activism -- Solidarity and fragmentation -- Westward expansion and irrepressible conflict -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Civil War -- Southern Reconstruction and counterrevolution -- Labor movements and struggles -- Whose government? -- Labor versus monopoly in the Gilded Age -- Industrial capitalism : consolidation and crisis -- The working classes -- The Knights of Labor -- The American Federation of Labor -- Populism and racism -- Labor and empire -- Empire abroad, empire at home -- The labor movement in the Progressive era -- The Great War -- The war's aftermath -- America, Inc. -- The roaring twenties -- The labor movement of the twenties -- Early years of the Great Depression -- Labor rising -- Labor on the march -- Grassroots unionism -- The rise of the CIO -- Whose America? -- Hot war, Cold War -- America at war -- The postwar world -- "Big labor" -- The sixties -- In the spirit of Montgomery -- "Power to the people" -- The sixties in the workplace -- A house divided -- Hard times -- Lean and mean -- Race to the bottom -- Fighting back -- Brave new world -- Making change -- Steps forward, steps back -- Turn of the century.
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