Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing 1
5. Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
6. Introduction 19
7. One. Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy 23
8. Two. “The Great Jewish Métier”: Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880–1910 42
9. Three. “A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral”: Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890–1910 61
10. Four. Workers Made Well: Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910–1930 77
11. Part II. Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
12. Introduction 101
13. Five. Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880–1909 105
14. Six. Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910–1930 132
15. Seven. “Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity”: Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909–1934 155
16. Conclusion: “Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency”: Measuring the Burden of Language 181
17. Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century 188
18. Notes 197
19. Index 253
20. About the Author 273