Introduction: Anglo American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker. 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, Lucy Simler -- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh -- Task and gang systems : the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan -- Vicissitudes of fortune : the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- Anglo American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.
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