RICK HALPERN is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Canada

• Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - The Persistence of Exceptionalism: Class Formation and the Comparative Method; R.Halpern & J.Morris - EXCEPTIONALISM REVISITED - The Paradoxes of American Exceptionalism; M.Zuckerman - American Exceptionalism Revisited; I.Katznelson - Why No Labour Party? Class and Race in the United States and Australia; R.Archer - THE POLITICS OF POPULAR LIBERALISM - It is the Working Class Who Fight All the Battles: Military Service and the Study of American Workers; R.Horowitz - The Limits of Liberalism: Working-class Formation in Britain and the United States; N.Kirk - RELIGION AND DISPOSITION - Present at the Creation: Working-Class Catholics in the United States; L.W.Tentler - Religion and the Formation of the Italian Working Class; J.Pollard - RACE AND CLASS: CONSTRUCTIONS, COMPARISONS, CONNECTIONS - Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality and the New Immigrant Working Class; J.Barrett & D.Roediger - 'Social Burden' or 'Amiable Peasantry': Constructing a Place for Black Southerners; J.Grossman - Workers at War: The South African Experience, 1939-1945; P.Alexander - Apropos of Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and the Comparative Histories of the United States and South Africa; R.Gregg -Index

RICK HALPERN is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Canada

• Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - The Persistence of Exceptionalism: Class Formation and the Comparative Method; R.Halpern & J.Morris - EXCEPTIONALISM REVISITED - The Paradoxes of American Exceptionalism; M.Zuckerman - American Exceptionalism Revisited; I.Katznelson - Why No Labour Party? Class and Race in the United States and Australia; R.Archer - THE POLITICS OF POPULAR LIBERALISM - It is the Working Class Who Fight All the Battles: Military Service and the Study of American Workers; R.Horowitz - The Limits of Liberalism: Working-class Formation in Britain and the United States; N.Kirk - RELIGION AND DISPOSITION - Present at the Creation: Working-Class Catholics in the United States; L.W.Tentler - Religion and the Formation of the Italian Working Class; J.Pollard - RACE AND CLASS: CONSTRUCTIONS, COMPARISONS, CONNECTIONS - Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality and the New Immigrant Working Class; J.Barrett & D.Roediger - 'Social Burden' or 'Amiable Peasantry': Constructing a Place for Black Southerners; J.Grossman - Workers at War: The South African Experience, 1939-1945; P.Alexander - Apropos of Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and the Comparative Histories of the United States and South Africa; R.Gregg -Index