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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Overview: The Challenge of Transnational Labor History | |
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| Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global | |
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| Historians of the World: Transnational Forces, Nation-States, and the Practice of U.S. History | |
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| Transnational Labor History: Promise and Perils | |
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| Labor History as World History: Linking Regions over Time | |
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| Overlapping Spaces: Transregional and Transcultural | |
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| Transnational Migration: A New Historical Phenomenon? | |
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| Labor and Empire | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "black service ... white money": The Peculiar Institution of Military Labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War | |
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| "We Speak the Same Language in the New World": Capital, Class, and Community in Mexico's "American Century" | |
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| Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Indigenous Labor in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British North America: The Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in Comparative Perspective | |
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| "De Facto Mexicans": Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican Border, 1931-1941 | |
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| International Feminism and Reproductive Labor | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "No Right to Layettes or Nursing Time": Maternity Leave and the Question of U.S. Exceptionalism | |
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| The Battle within the Home: Development Strategies and the Commodification of Caring Labors at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference | |
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| Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control Introduction | |
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| Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910 | |
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| Patronage and Progress: The Bracero Program from the Perspective of Mexico | |
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| Unspoken Exclusions: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Immigration Restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the Greater Caribbean | |
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| Transnational Labor Politics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Claiming Political Space: Workers, Municipal Socialism, and the Reconstruction of Local Democracy in Transnational Perspective | |
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| A Migrating Revolution: Mexican Political Organizers and Their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-1940 | |
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| Labor Internationalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fugitive Slaves across North America | |
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| Movable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872 | |
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| Global Sea or National Backwater?: The International Labor Organization and the Quixotic Quest for Maritime Standards, 1919-1945 | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |