Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America / Stepehen Innes
  • Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 / Daniel Vickers
  • Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler
  • Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh
  • Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan
  • The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith
  • The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.