The twentieth annual North American Labor History Conference (NALHC), held at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, October 15–17, 1998, offered three days of intellectual forays into the history of workers in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Canada, Poland, and New Zealand. Conference participants enjoyed discussions concerning the ways in which race, ethnicity, gender, skill, nationalism, communism, masculinity, education, political economy, imperialism, and citizenship have shaped labor history from the seventeenth century through the 1990s. The following is small sample of some of the panels and events included at the 1998 NALHC.