Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America Chapter 1: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy Chapter 2: "The Great Jewish Métier" Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910 Chapter 3: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral" Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890-1910 Chapter 4: Workers Made Well Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910-1930 Part II: Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign Chapter 5: Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880-1909 Chapter 6: Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910-1930 Chapter 7: "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity": Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909-1934 Conclusion: "Our Marching Orders... Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency": Measuring the Burden of Language Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century Notes Index