or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots, and is the author of an article on the political economy of post conflict Northern Ireland, "Neoliberal Belfast". He has published a number of articles on the controversy about Irish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, including a two-part series in Rebel, and a Platform piece on the subject in History Ireland. Select publications Books Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921 (University of Illinois Press, 2001). Labor, Free and Slave (University of Illinois Press, 2007) After Slavery: Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South (Florida University Press, 2013) Articles and Book Chapters 'Ambiguous Loyalties: the Boston Irish, Slavery, and the American Civil War'. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 24:2 (Summer 1996): 165-204. 'Policing the ‘Negro Eden’: Racial Paternalism in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921'. Alabama Review 51:3-4 (July, October 1998): 163-183; 243-265. Milo B. Howard Award (best article for 1998-1999) '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. 'Beyond the "Talented Tenth"': Black Workers, Black Elites, and the Limits of Accommodation in Industrial Birmingham, 1900–1920'. In Adam Green and Charles Payne (eds), Time Longer than Rope: A Century of African-American Activism, 1850–1950 (New York, 2003). 'Materialism and the Persistence of Race in the Jim Crow South' [Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture] in Historical Materialism 12 (2004). 'Black workers, the Republican Party, and the crisis of Reconstruction in lowcountry South Carolina'. International Review of Social History 51:3 (2006). 'Industrial Sentinels Confront the "Rabid Faction"': Booker T. Washington, Industrial Accommodation, and the Labor Question in the Jim Crow South'. In Eric Arnesen (ed.), The Black Worker: Race and Labor Activism since Emancipation (Illinois, 2006). "Mapping Alternate Routes to Antislavery" – Contribution to ‘Up for Debate' in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 5:4 (Winter 2008): 69-73. ‘Emancipations and Reversals: Labor, Race, and the Boundaries of American Freedom in the Age of Capital'. International Labor and Working Class History (Nov. 2008). 'Labor and Place: The Contours of Freedpeoples' Mobilization in Reconstruction South Carolina'. Journal of Peasant Studies: Special Issue on ‘Rethinking Agrarian History' (Nov. 2008). ‘Martin Luther King, the Memphis Sanitation Strike, and the Unfinished Business of the American Civil Rights Movement'. International Socialism Journal 118 (Spring 2008). 'Emancipations and Reversals: Labor, Race and the Boundaries of American Freedom in the Age