Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history. Labor History has recently undergone something of a renaissance that has yet to be documented. The book chronicles this rejuvenation with contributions from new scholars as well as established names. Rethinking U.S. Labor History focuses particularly on those issues of pressing interest for today's labor historians: the relationship of class and culture; the link between worker's experience and the changing political economy; the role that gender and race have played in America's labor history; and finally, the transnational turn.

Contributors
1. Introduction
Donna Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz.
PART I. CURRENT RESEARCH
2. Memoirs of an Invalid: James Miller and the Making of the British-American Empire during the Seven Years' War
Peter Way

3. Losing the Middle Ground: Strikebreakers and Labor Protest on the Southwestern Railroads
Theresa Case
4. Rethinking Working-Class Politics in Comparative-Transnational Contexts
Shelton Stromquist
5. No Common Creed: White Working-Class Protestantisms and the CIO's Operation Dixie
Ken Fones-Wolf and Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
6. A. Philip Randolph, Black Anticommunism, and the Race Question
Eric Arnesen
7. The Contextualization of a Moment in CIO History: The Mine-Mill Battle in the Connecticut Brass Valley During World War II
Steve Rosswurm

8. Organizing the Carework Economy: When the Private Becomes Public
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein

9. Solvents of Solidarity: Political Economy, Collective Action, and the Crisis of Organized Labor, 1968-2005
Joseph McCartin
PART II. NEW DIRECTIONS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY
10. Sensing Labor: The Stinking Working-Class after the Cultural Turn
Dan Bender
11. Re-imagining Labor: Gender and New Directions in Labor and Working Class History
Liz Faue

12. The Limits of Work And The Subject of Labor History
Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
PART III. RESOURCES
Chronology
Resources
Further Reading
Index