Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.

Contributions by: Reeve Huston, Bruce Laurie, Shelton Stromquist, Cecelia Bucki, Tera W. Hunter, Gunther Peck, Kathryn J Oberdeck, Kimberley L. Phillips, Ileen A DeVault, James R. Barrett, Peter Rachleff