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