Acknowledgments -- Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management -- Facing South -- The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor -- Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal -- Facing West -- Frontiers of...

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