INTRODUCTION by Sue Davidson
I: Needlework as Art, Craft, and Livelihood before 1900
Joan M. Jensen
1. “If I Didn’t Have My Sewing Machine . . .”: Women and Sewing-Machine Technology
Ava Baron and Susan E. Klepp
2. “A Paradise of Fashion”: A. T. Stewart’s Department Store, 1862–1875
Deborah S. Gardner
II: The Great Uprisings: 1900–1920
Joan M. Jensen
3. The Great Uprising in Rochester
Joan M. Jensen
4. The Uprising in Chicago: The Men’s Garment Workers Strike, 1910–1911
N. Sue Weiler
5. The Great Uprising in Cleveland: When Sisterhood Failed
Lois Scharf
6. The Uprising of the 20,000: The Making of a Labor Legend
Ann Schofield
III: Inside and Outside the Unions: 1920–1980
Joan M. Jensen
7. Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca: Women Clothing Workers and the Runaway Shops
Nina Asher
8. Women at Farah: An Unfinished Story
Laurie Coyle, Gail Hershatter, and Emily Honig
9. A Stitch in Our Time: New York’s Hispanic Garment Workers in the 1980s
Elizabeth Weiner and Hardy Green