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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Foundations in Conquest | |
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| In the Nets of Heaven: The Campesino on the Spanish Frontier | |
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| Bird Herders, Stirrup Boys, and Naked Winemakers: Assembling a Labor Force | |
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| Always Trembling With Fear: Controlling Mission Farmworkers | |
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| No Longer Keep Us By Force: Accommodation and Resistance Among Mission Field Hands | |
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| The Meaning of Free Labor | |
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| Not Free to Be Idle: Life and Labor on the Mexican Ranchos and American Farms | |
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| To the Highest Bidder: Native Field Hands and Gold Rush Agriculture | |
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| They Have Filled Our Jails and Graveyards: The Decline of Indian Labor | |
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| Golden Harvest | |
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| Between the Teeth of the Cylinder: The Emergence of Migratory Labor and Farm Technology | |
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| Open-Air Factories: Industrialization of Labor on the Bonanza Wheat Farms | |
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| Hell's Fury and Liquid Fire: The Coarse Culture of Wheat Harvesters and Threshers | |
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| Immigrants from the East | |
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| Trustworthy Laborers: Chinese Infiltration into Irrigated Agriculture | |
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| Bought Like Any Other Commodity: China Bosses and Gang Labor | |
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| The Chinese Must Go! Community, Chinatowns, and the Anti-Chinese Movement | |
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| More Manpower from a Pint of Rice: Sugar Beets, Short-Handled Hoes, and Chinese Exclusion | |
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| Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion | |
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| Worn out, Bent, and Discouraged: Chinese Labor (Almost) Disappears from the Fields | |
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| Japanese Farmworkers | |
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| Running From Vine to Vine: Japanese Farmworkers and the Beginning of Labor Militancy | |
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| Blood Spots on the Moon: The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike | |
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| Exact Everything Possible: Keiyaku-nin, Mexicans, Sikhs, and the Quest for Labor Stability | |
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| Handle the Fruit Like Eggs! The Japanese Shift from Field-Workers to Farmers | |
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| Bindlemen | |
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| Blinky Joe, Red Mike, and Hobo Sam: Bindlemen on the Move | |
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| As Rotten as Ever: Jungle Camps, Slave Markets, and the Main Stem | |
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| The Privilege of Quitting: Death, Discontent, and Alienation | |
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| I've Been Robbed: The Struggle to Organize Farmworkers | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |