Revolutionary mechanics / Alfred F. Young -- Workingmen's parties / Franklin Rosemont -- Workers and slavery / Eric Foner -- Women's labor and politics / Mari Jo Buhle -- Paths to power after the Civil War / Alan Dawley -- Socialists and wobblies / Paul Buhle -- Black workers from Reconstruction to the Great Depression / Nell Irvin Painter -- Farmer-Labor Party / David Montgomery -- Labor and the New Deal / James R. Green -- Blacks and the CIO / Richard Thomas -- Labor and the Cold War / George Lipsitz -- Women workers / Barbara Mayer Wertheimer -- Black insurgency / Manning Marable -- Labor and capital today and tomorrow / Sidney Lens.