"Something in the 'atmosphere' of America" -- The logic and limits of solidarity, 1850s-1920s -- New York : "they... helped to create themselves out of what they found around them" -- Waterfront unionism and "race solidarity" : from the Crescent City to the City of Angels -- Steelworkers -- Ethnicity and race in steel's nonunion era -- "Regardless of creed, color, or nationality" : steelworkers and civil rights (I) -- "We are determined to secure justice now" : steelworkers and civil rights (II). and "The steel was hot, the jobs were dirty, and it was war" : class, race, and working-class agency in Youngstown -- "Other energies, other dreams" : toward a new labor movement.