We are excited to publish our first online exhibit, a peer-reviewed digital edited volume of cutting-edge historical research that incorporates visual and multimedia components. Our guest editor Kate McDonald has spent the past year working with the authors of this collection and developing its structure. Think of it as a hybrid of what you would find on an academic blog and in print, a new way of presenting our work as a community of scholars. We would also like to thank our anonymous peer reviewers for their work and the institutions that made their media available for this exhibit. –-Mike Bess, ed.

Table of Contents

People-Works: The Labor of Transport, An Introduction

Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara

Maintaining Safety through Regulatory Enforcement

Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech

Hand-Made Streets: The Role of Labor in Making, Installing and Maintaining Street Pavement Prior to the Dominance of Asphalt

Robin B. Williams, Savannah College of Art and Design

Weather Workers: The Unseen Scientific Labor Behind Air Transport

Roger Turner, Science History Institute

African Automobility:  Mammy Trucks in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University

Restricted Cargo: Chinese Sailors, Shore Leave, and the Evolution of U.S. Immigration Policies, 1882-1942

Andrew Urban, Rutgers University

The Labor of Transport of the “Messengers of the Nations” of the University of Paris in the Fifteenth Century

Martina Hacke, University of Düsseldorf

About the Contributors

Citing this Exhibit

Media Metadata Inventories

January 17, 2019 update: the “soft launch” period has concluded and we are proud to be publishing the fully completed online exhibit of People-Works: The Labor of Transport. This final version includes revised and expanded images as well as formatting and navigation improvements. We hope you enjoy!!