The Work of Empire: Current Directions in Transnational Labour History

The article reviews the books, "Competing Vision of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire," by Abigail L. Swingen, "Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism," edited by John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings, and "Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism," edited by Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman.