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

Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Taking into account recent important work on...

Thinking regionally -- The regional power-building model emerges in California -- Developing a regional policy agenda -- Deep coalitions -- From access to governance : building aggressive political action -- Understanding the spread of regional power building across the country -- Toward a...