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

Worked over and overworked -- Workplace hell -- The vise tights -- Downright Dickensian -- The rise and fall of the social contract -- Leaner and meaner -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Wal-Mart, the low-wage colossus -- Taking the high road -- Overstressed and overstretched -- Outsourced and out...