Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Rural Place and a Rural People -- Chapter 2. Building Factories in the Country -- Chapter 3. Rise of the Rural-Industrial Workers -- Chapter 4. Prosperous, Independent...

Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history -- Pt. I. Gendered experiences -- 1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject -- 2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent...