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This is history at its best--the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly... Read Full Overview

A sweeping account of almost 400 years of competition, cooperation, and exclusion, "American Work" tells the epic, tragic story of how blacks were boycotted from significant social transformations in American history--from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work,... Read Full Overview