"The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most...

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

Slavery in the making of The Constitution -- The engine of American growth, 1787-1861 -- The north: for whites only, 1800-1865 -- King cotton buys a war -- The racial divide and cotton labor, 1865-1930 -- Cotton without slaves, 1865-1930