Workers Across the Americas

Distinguished Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (University of North Carolina, 2003); Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (Harvard, 1998); In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (U. of Illinois, 1994); Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (U. of Illinois, 1983).

Preface - Leon Fink ; I. Beyond Borders: The Challenge of Transnational Labor History ; Introduction: Another 'World' History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal, Transnational, and Global History - John French ; Chapter 1: Historians of the World: Transnational Forces, Nation-States, and the Practice of U.S. History - Julie Greene ; Chapter 2: Transnational Labor History: Promise and Perils - Neville Kirk ; Chapter 3: Labor History as World History: Linking Regions over Time - Aviva Chomsky ; Chapter 4: Overlapping Spaces: Transregional and Transcultural - Dirk Hoerder ; Chapter 5: Transnational Migration: A New Historical Phenomenon? - Vic Satzewich ; II. Labor and Empire ; Introduction - Alex Lichtenstein ; Chapter 6: "Black service ... white money": The Peculiar Institution of Military Labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War - Peter Way ; Chapter 7: "We Speak the Same Language in the New World": Capital, Class, and Community in Mexico's "American Century" - Steven Bachelor ; III. Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems ; Introduction - Colleen O'Neill ; Chapter 8: Indigenous Labor in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British North America: The Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in Comparative Perspective - Andrew Parnaby ; Chapter 9: "De Facto Mexicans": Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941 - Catherine Nolan-Ferrell ; IV. International Feminism and Reproductive Labor ; Introduction - Premilla Nadasen ; Chapter 10: "No Right to Layettes or Nursing Time": Maternity Leave and the Question of United States Exceptionalism - Eileen Boris ; Chapter 11: The Battle Within the Home: International Women's Year 1975 and the Debate Over Development Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors - Jocelyn Olcott ; V. Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control ; Introduction - Camille Guerin-Gonzales ; Chapter 12: Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910 - Gunther Peck ; Chapter 13: Patronage and Progress: The Bracero Program from the Perspective of Mexico - Michael Snodgrass ; Chapter 14: Unspoken Exclusions: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Immigration Restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the Greater Caribbean - Lara Putnam ; VI. Transnational Labor Politics ; Introduction - Bryan D. Palmer ; Chapter 15: Reclaiming Political Space: Workers, Municipal Socialism and the Reconstruction of Local Democracy in Transnational Perspective - Shelton Stromquist ; Chapter 16: A Migrating Revolution: Mexican Political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40 - John H. Flores ; VII. Labor Internationalism ; Introduction - Nelson Lichtenstein ; Chapter 17: Fugitive Slaves Across North America - Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie ; Chapter 18: Movable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872 - Jacob Remes ; Chapter 19: Global Sea or National Backwater? The ILO, Protective Subsidies, and the Shoals of Solidarity - Leon Fink ; Contributors ; Index