Paul Buhle
by James Green
PART ONE. The Struggle for Control
CHAPTER ONE. The Demand for Black Labor: Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism
by Harold M. Baron
CHAPTER TWO. Four Decades of Change: Black Workers in Southern Textiles, 1941–1981
by Mary Frederickson
by Mike Davis
by Susan Porter Benson
CHAPTER FIVE. Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Historical Notes
by Mary Bularzik
PART TWO. Organizing the Unorganized
CHAPTER SIX. Working-Class Self-Activity
by George Rawick
CHAPTER SEVEN. “Union Fever”: Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900–1930
by Roslyn L. Feldberg
CHAPTER EIGHT. Organizing the Unemployed: The Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929–1933
by Roy Rosenzweig
CHAPTER NINE. The Possibility of Radicalism in the Early 1930s: The Case of Steel
by Staughton Lynd
CHAPTER TEN. A. Philip Randolph and the Foundations of Black American Socialism
by Manning Marable
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Organizing Against Sexual Harassment
by the Alliance Against Sexual Coercion
PART THREE. Militancy, Union Politics, and Workers’ Control
by Stan Weir
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Defending the No-Strike Pledge: CIO Politics During World War II
by Nelson Lichtenstein
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: An Assessment
by Ernest Allen, Jr.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Beneath the Surface: The Life of a Factory
by Dorothy Fennell
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Where Is the Teamster Rebellion Going?
by Staughton Lynd
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Holding the Line: Miners’ Militancy and the Strike of 1978
by James Green
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Shop-Floor Politics at Fleetwood
by John Lippert
CHAPTER NINETEEN. Tanning Leather, Tanning Hides: Health and Safety Struggles in a Leather Factory
by Andrew Rowland
CHAPTER TWENTY. Workers’ Control and the News: The Madison, Wisconsin, Press Connection
by Dave Wagner, interviewed by Paul Buhle
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. The Past and Future of Workers’ Control
by David Montgomery