Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Living and Working in Detroit
Varying Industrial Experiences
Table 2. Firm Size and Distribution of Factory Employees in Detroit, 1896
Table 3. Class Composition of Detroit Work Force, 1890
Table 4. Detroit Women Wage Workers, 1892: Age at which They Began Work
Table 5. Age of Women Workers in Detroit, 1892
Table 6. Daily Wages of Detroit Workers, 1884
What Did Workers Have in Common?
2. Class Solidarity and Competing Cultural Systems
Detroit's Workers: Who Were They?
Table 7. Occupational Composition of Detroit Ethnic Groups, 1880-1900
Competing Cultural Systems
The Working Class Subculture of Opposition
Craft Unions in the Late 1870's
Labadie, Grenell, and American Socialism
Socialist Activities
Beyond the SLP: The Knights of Labor
Unions
Knights of Labor
Political Action
Table 8. Independent Labor Vote, State Representative Candidates, 1882-1886
The Subculture of Opposition
5. A Summer of Possibilities: May Day of Labor Day, 1886
Factional Divisions within the Labor Movement
The Collapse of the Independent Labor Party
Widening the Breach: The Knights, The Cigarmakers, and the Trade Unions
Powderly, Haymarket, and the Destruction of the Knights of Labor
"Will the butter come?"
Class Solidarity and Working-Class Culture
Political Alliances
Detroit's Labor Movement in the 1890's: The Triumph of Pure and Simple Unionism
Figure 1: Union Membership in Detroit, 1800-1906
Figure 2. Union Membership as Percentage of Work Force, Detroit, 1880-1906
Conclusion
Figure 3. Percentage of Unionization of Nonagricultural Employees, 1886-1929
Note on Source
Index
Back cover