Introduction: American labor history in the United States and Europe / Dirk Hoerder
Workers, scholars, militancy: Strikes and economics, working-class insurgency and the birth of labor historiography in the 1880s / Bruno Cartosio. W.E.B. Du Bois and the proletariat in Black reconstruction / Ferruccio Gambino. Workers' self-organization and resistance in the 1877 strikes / Marianne Debouzy. "Reefs of roast beef," the American worker's standard of living in comparative perspective / Peter R. Shergold
Organization: The Socialist and the working class in New York, 1890-96 / Hubert Perrier. The parameters of craft consciousness, the social outlook of the skilled worker, 1890-1920 / Andrew Dawson. The German immigrant working class of Chicago, 1875-90 / Hartmut Keil. Yugoslav immigrants in the U.S. labor movement, 1880-1920 / Ivan Čizmić
Immigrants: Unestablished Irishmen, new immigrants and industrial America, 1870-1910 / David N. Doyle. Strikes and political radicalism in Sweden and emigration to the United States / Lars-Göran Tedebrand. Political mobilization of the workers, the case of the Worcester Swedes / Sune Åkerman and Hans Norman. For or against Americanization? The case of the Finnish immigrant radicals / Auvo Kostiainen.
