Introduction: is southern labor history exceptional? / Robert H. Zieger
Standing idly by: "organized" farmworkers in South Florida during the Depression and World War II / Cindy Hahamovitch
Warplanes, labor, and the International Association of Machinists in Nashville, 1939-1945 / Jacob Vander Meulen
"Scientific unionism" and the "Negro question": Communists and the Transport Workers Union in Miami, 1944-1949 / Alex Lichtenstein
The CIO and the limits of labor-based civil rights activism: the case of Louisiana's sugar workers, 1947-1966 / Rick Halpern
"CIO meant one thing for the whites and another thing for us": steelworkers and civil rights, 1936-1974 / Bruce Nelson
Martin Luther King, Jr., the crisis of the Black working class, and the Memphis sanitation strike / Michael Honey
Gender, race, work culture, and the building of the fire fighters union in Tampa, Florida, 1943-1985 / Mark Wilkens
The Florida teacher walkout in the political transition of 1968 / James Sullivan
Hale Boggs, organized labor, and the politics of race in South Louisiana / Patrick J. Maney
The real Norma Rae / James A. Hodges
From primordial folk to redundant workers: southern textile workers and social observers, 1920-1990 / Robert H. Zieger
The emergence and growth of a nonunion sector in the southern paper industry / Bruce E. Kaufman.