Themes connecting this roundtable’s research will prompt discussion among authors and with attendees regarding the historiography of labor and empire in the Americas and beyond, and identify potential and prospective directions for future research. First, each explores the politics and culture of working people as they navigated imperial forms of coercion, from enslaved seamen and conscripted soldiers and military workers to striking colonial subjects, thus raising questions about how empire variously foreclosed and facilitated freedom. Second, they collectively locate histories of labor and empire not in any single nation-state or imperial metropole and colony, but instead in the movement of people, goods, and ideas between empires and colonies, and between continents, countries, regions, and locales. Third, each of these works emphasize the intertwined nature of racial, imperial, and class formation, treating them as co-constitutive processes through which laborers’ racialization predicated the making and transformation of global capitalism and colonial empires. Fourth, these studies each confront the violence latent or actively inflicted within the labor relations of imperial pasts, from the terrors of enslavement and humiliations of military occupation to the repression of mutinous soldiers and striking plantation laborers. Lastly, each book makes empire central to labor history’s investigation into particular and shifting conditions that facilitated or frustrated solidarity among workers, from ethnic and national identity to the spatiality of the workspace and political ideologies. Engaging literatures on the Black Atlantic, the US military, Asian and African diasporas, and internationalism, among other fields, new scholarship presented in this roundtable intervenes in a thriving historiography of empire and labor by crossing conventions of time, space, and method.