Preface1. European and Colonial Foundations to 17602. Labor and Liberty in the Formation of the Nation, 1760-18303. Great Contrasts: Factory and Field, Slavery and Democracy, Civil War, 1830-18654. The Heroic Age of Labor; The Days of the "Martyrs and the Saints," 1865-18935. Challenges and Responses, 1893-19136. Bang, Boom, Bust: The Great War, Jazz Age, and Great Crash, 1914-19327. Labor Valued: The New Deal and War, 1933-19478. Constructing Consensus: Labor in the Cold War, 1945-19689. Labor and the Corporate State, 1969-199210. Labor's Recent Past and the Future of Democracy