Chapter 1: Why a covenantal theory of the employment relation is needed
Chapter 2: Christian business ethics and the corporation as a moral community
Chapter 3: Durable interdependence as the occasion for covenant-building
Chapter 4: A trajectory of covenant-building in the Bible
Chapter 5: Linking Biblical and business history
Chapter 6: The nineteenth century: spiraling conflict
Chapter 7: Two contending moral principles
Chapter 8: From 1898 through the 1920s: trade agreements and welfare capitalism
Chapter 9: Two measures of progress in covenant-building
Chapter 10: Reinhold Niebuhr and the difficulty of prescribing covenantal love in industrial settings
Chapter 11: The 1930s through the 1950s: from hard confrontations to hard bargaining
Chapter 12: The kind of coercion appropriate to covenantal relations
Chapter 13: The 1960s through the 1990s: coercive countertactics by management
Chapter 14: The 1970s through the 1990s: recruiting the active cooperation of employees
Chapter 15: The nature and costs of cooperation
Chapter 16: What is the good of cooperation?
Chapter 17: Covenantal realism and the future of cooperation