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Directors Foreword, by Whitney W. Donhauser Introduction: Workers Movements, Workers Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. Henry Workers in the City of Commerce: 16241898 1. Artisan Labor in Colonial New York and the New Republic, by Simon Middleton 2. Slave Labor in New York, by Leslie M. Harris 3. Sailors Ashore in New Yorks Sailortown, by Johnathan Thayer 4. Housework and Homework in 19th-Century New York City, by Elizabeth Blackmar 5. Victims, Bhoys, Foreigners, Slave-Drivers, and Despots: Picturing Work, Workers, and Activism in 19th-Century New York, by Joshua Brown Union City: 18981975 6. The Needle Trades and the Uprising of Women Workers: 19051919, by Annelise Orleck 7. Sex Work and the Underground Economy, by LaShawn Harris 8. Here Comes the CIO, by Joshua B. Freeman 9. Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City: 1910s1970s, by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago 10. Labor and the Fight for Racial Equality, by Martha Biondi 11. Public Workers, by William A. Herbert Crisis and Transformation: 1975 2018 12. The Fiscal Crisis and Union Decline, by Kim Phillips-Fein 13. Health-care Workers and Union Power, by Brian Greenberg 14. Chinatown, the Garment and Restaurant Industries, and Labor, by Kenneth J. Guest and Margaret M. Chin 15. Domestic Workers, by Premilla Nadasen 16. New Forms of Struggle: The Alt-labor Movement in New York City, by Ruth Milkman Conclusion: How Labor Shaped New York and New York Shaped Labor, by Joshua B. Freeman For Further Reading Index Image Credits
