Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Foregrounding the Black Worker
Part 1. Preindustrial Beginnings
Chapter 1. Genesis of the Black Working Class
Chapter 2. Building the Early Community
Chapter 3. Prelude to the Modern Age
Part 2. The Twentieth Century
Chapter 4. Th e Industrial Working Class
Chapter 5. African American Workers Organize
Chapter 6. Demolition of the Old Jim Crow Order
Chapter 7. Demise of the Industrial Working Class
Epilogue: Facing the New Global Capitalist Economy
Appendix: Interpreting the African American Working-Class Experience, an Essay on Sources
Notes
Index