The African American struggle for jobs -- Fair employment is good business -- Racial liberalism and the mid-twentieth-century businessman -- Human relations in management -- Human relations at International Harvester and Pitney-Bowes -- How compliance became voluntarism -- The National...

Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. - Jacket

Emancipation and the politics of Black labor -- Jim Crow's Black workers -- The great Black labor migration -- A new deal for Black workers -- The Black working-class movement for civil rights -- Opening the American workplace