Workers on arrival: black labor in the making of America

Prologue : foregrounding the black worker

Genesis of the black working class

Building the early community

Prelude to the modern age

Rise of the industrial working class

African American workers organize

Demolition of the old Jim Crow order

Demise of the industrial working class

Epilogue : facing the new global capitalist economy

Sources : interpreting the African American working class experience.

Prologue : foregrounding the black worker

Genesis of the black working class

Building the early community

Prelude to the modern age

Rise of the industrial working class

African American workers organize

Demolition of the old Jim Crow order

Demise of the industrial working class

Epilogue : facing the new global capitalist economy

Sources : interpreting the African American working class experience.