Preface
Leon Fink

I. Beyond Borders: The Challenge of Transnational Labor History
Introduction: Another 'World' History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal, Transnational, and Global History
John French

Chapter 1: Historians of the World: Transnational Forces, Nation-States, and the Practice of U.S. History
Julie Greene

Chapter 2: Transnational Labor History: Promise and Perils
Neville Kirk

Chapter 3: Labor History as World History: Linking Regions over Time
Aviva Chomsky

Chapter 4: Overlapping Spaces: Transregional and Transcultural
Dirk Hoerder

Chapter 5: Transnational Migration: A New Historical Phenomenon?
Vic Satzewich

II. Labor and Empire
Introduction
Alex Lichtenstein

Chapter 6: "Black service . . . white money": The Peculiar Institution of Military Labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War
Peter Way

Chapter 7: "We Speak the Same Language in the New World": Capital, Class, and Community in Mexico's "American Century"
Steven Bachelor

III. Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems
Introduction
Colleen O'Neill

Chapter 8: Indigenous Labor in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British North America: The Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in Comparative Perspective
Andrew Parnaby

Chapter 9: "De Facto Mexicans": Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941
Catherine Nolan-Ferrell

IV. International Feminism and Reproductive Labor
Introduction
Premilla Nadasen

Chapter 10: "No Right to Layettes or Nursing Time": Maternity Leave and the Question of United States Exceptionalism
Eileen Boris

Chapter 11: The Battle Within the Home: International Women's Year 1975 and the Debate Over Development Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors
Jocelyn Olcott

V. Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control
Introduction
Camille Guérin-Gonzales

Chapter 12: Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910
Gunther Peck

Chapter 13: Patronage and Progress: The Bracero Program from the Perspective of Mexico
Michael Snodgrass

Chapter 14: Unspoken Exclusions: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Immigration Restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the Greater Caribbean
Lara Putnam

VI. Transnational Labor Politics
Introduction
Bryan D. Palmer

Chapter 15: Reclaiming Political Space: Workers, Municipal Socialism and the Reconstruction of Local Democracy in Transnational Perspective
Shelton Stromquist

Chapter 16: A Migrating Revolution: Mexican Political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40
John H. Flores

VII. Labor Internationalism
Introduction
Nelson Lichtenstein

Chapter 17: Fugitive Slaves Across North America
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

Chapter 18: Movable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872
Jacob Remes

Chapter 19: Global Sea or National Backwater? The ILO, Protective Subsidies, and the Shoals of Solidarity
Leon Fink

Contributors
Index