"This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social...

The great strike -- The world of textile work : continuity and change -- Millworkers, socialism, and the labor movement -- A culture of textile production -- Workers as consumers -- Feminization and industrial expansion -- Expanding the consumer market -- The depression decade and the popular front