The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation / edited by Eric Arnesen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / Leslie A. Schwalm -- The quicksands of economic insecurity : African Americans, strikebreaking, and labor activism in the industrial era / Eric Arnesen -- "Work that body" : African American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Tera W. Hunter -- Industrial sentinels confront the "rabid faction" : Black elites, Black workers, and the labor question in the Jim Crow South / Brian Kelly -- "We must live anyhow" : African American women and sex work in Chicago, 1880-1900 / Cynthia M. Blair -- The great war, Black workers, and the rise and fall of the NAACP in the South / Steven A. Reich -- The organizing tradition among African American plantation workers in the Arkansas Delta in the age of Jim Crow / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff -- Mobilizing Black Chicago : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and community organizing, 1925-35 / Beth Tompkins Bates -- Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early rights movement / Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein -- "Simple truths of democracy" : African Americans and organized labor in the post-World War II South / William Powell Jones -- Managing discontent : the life and career of Leamon Hood, Black public employee union activist / Joseph A. McCartin.