Labor Divided

Robert Asher is Professor of History at The University of Connecticut. Charles Stephenson is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. They are editors of Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsI. INTRODUCTION1. American Capitalism, Labor Organization, and the Racial/Ethnic Factor: An ExplorationRobert Asher and Charles StephensonII. NON-WHITE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATESAsian2. Ethnicity and Class in Hawaii: The Plantation Labor Experience, 1835-1920Ronald Takaki3. Chinese American Agricultural Workers and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles, 1870-1890Raymond Lou4. Ethnic Life and Labor in Chicago's Pre-World-War-II Filipino CommunityBarabara M. PosadasHispanic5. Border Proletarians: Mexican-Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1939-1946Mario T. Garcia6. Puerto Ricans in the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1960Altagracia OrtizAfrican-American7. The Red Scare and Black Workers in Alabama: The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1945-53Horace HuntleyIII. EUROPEAN-BACKGROUND WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATESNorthern and Western Europe8. Immigration, Ethnicity and the American Working-Class Community: Fall River, 1850-1900John Cumbler9. Scottish-Americans and the Beginnings of the Modern Class Struggle: Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern Illinois, 1865-1889John H. M. Laslett10. The German Brewery Workers of New York City in the Late Nineteenth CenturyDorothee Schneider11. Catholic Corporatism, French Canadian Workers, and Industrial Unionism in Rhode Island, 1938-1956Gary Gerstle12. British and Irish Militants in the Detroit UAW in the 1930sSteve BabsonSouthern and Eastern Europe13. Women's Work, Family Economy and Labor Militancy: The Case of Chicago's Packing-House Workers, 1900-1922James R. Barrett14. Anthony Capraro and the Lawrence Strike of 1919Rudolph J. Vecoli15. The Transformation of Working-Class Ethnicity: Corporate Control, Americanization, and the Polish Immigrant Middle Class in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915-1925John J. BukowczykNotesContributorsIndex