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From 1918 into the early Twenties, any African Americans who spoke out for their race - editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This book presents an account in the history of American political intelligence.

This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom
Part I: Independence or Contract ; 1. Republican Soil ; 2. Contracting Liberties ;
Part II: Illusory Freedoms ; 3. The Properties of Labor ; 4. A Skillful Control: Managing the Labor Process ; 5. Incorporating Paternalism ; 6. Free Education ;
Part III: New Deals and Old Ideals ; 7. Union Compromise ; 8. ""Rights"" of Passage ; 9. Playing the Global Piano ; Epilogue: Memories and Challenges ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author

This sweeping social history of over four centuries of competition, co-operation and exclusion demonstrates how black people were excluded from significant social transformations in American history
Part I: Insubordinates: servants and slaves in a militarized age. Places of labor's "hard usage" in the South before slavery
Memory and misery: white servants and the origins of slavery in the South
The work of insurrection: black and white labor in the eighteenth-century South
"Domestik enemies": bound laborers in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1620-1776
The emergence of free labor, fettered, in the North
American work: a photo essay

Part II: Workers and overworkers: black and white labor in the era of slavery.
Black and white hands in a slaveholders' republic, 1790-1860
The racial politics of Southern labor in peacetime and war, 1820-1870
White men "in a tight place": black poverty and black protest in the antebellum North
White citizens and black denizens: workers in the North during the era of the Civil War.

Part III: The rise and decline of the racialized machine: technological and political change in the workplace.
The modernization of prejudice: economic change and the social division of labor, 1870-1930
Can you see a tomorrow there? industrial transformation and Federal civil rights legislation, 1929-1978
Industrial devolution and the persistence of the "race watch" at the end of the twentieth century
Families, fraternities, and sites of diversity: affirmative action in historical perspective