Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21, (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

"Labour, Race, and the Search for a Central Theme in the History of the Jim Crow South," Irish Journal of American Studies 10 (Dec. 2002): 55-74.

"Sentinels for New South Industry: Booker T. Washington, Industrial Accommodation, and Black Workers in the Jim Crow South," Labor History 44:3 (August 2003): 337-358.

"Race, Class and Power in the American South," reprint of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture (London), Historical Materialism 12.2 (2004): 3-19

'Bad Ol' Boys: Scabs, Labor Spies and Gun-Slinging Entrepreneurs?': Review of Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America, by Stephen H. Norwood. Reviews in American History 31 (March 2003): 101-09.

Review of Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, by John Hinshaw. Labor History44:2 (May 2003): 276-79.

Review of The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, by Heather Cox Richardson. International Labor and Working Class History 64 (Fall 2003): 221-23.

Review of Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, by Adam Fairclough. H-South, January 2004; see also exchange on H-South logs beginning 19 January 2004.

Review of A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steve Hahn. Labor: Working Class History of the Americas 1:3 (Fall 2004): 145-47.

Review of Southern Struggles: the Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle, by John A. Salmond. Journal of American History (2004)

Extended Introduction to Reprint of Bernard Mandel's 1955 labour history classic, Labor: Free and Slave (Illinois, 2006)