Constant turmoil: the politics of industrial life in nineteenth-century New England

Prologue: Unlikely Acquaintances

The Fall River Patrimony: Those Legendary Bordens, 1799-1865

Gender Politics and Labor Reform in the Protest Heritages of Antebellum New England

British Immigrant Textile Workers and Their Class Conscious Legacies, 1820-1865

Wait, Agitate, Work, and Wait: Gender Politics and Ten-Hour Reform, 1865-1874

To Dominate the National Market, 1866-1878

They Have Brought Their Horns with Them: Deference and Defiance, 1868-1875

A New Lancashire for the Northeast, 1876-1878

Struggling over Amalgamations or Trade Unions, 1879-1884

Piecing Up the Fall River System, 1885-1897

The Ascendancy of Trade Unions and Combinations, 1898-1906

Epilogue: The Escape of Al Priddy, the Death of M.C.D. Borden, and the Burnley Reunion

Critical Assessment of Primary Sources

Personal taxable income in Fall River, 1867

Cotton manufacturing data for Fall River, 1865 and 1875

Comparative nativities of population, 1870

United States cotton mills producing print cloth, 1880

Characterists of 153 "works in a cotton mill" families, Fall River: Globe Village and Little Canada in Ward 1, 1870

Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence, 1875: Persons employed in cotton goods

Total population: Percentages of foreign-born in leading Massachusetts manufacturing cities, 1875

Comparative data on Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence, 1870-1880

Southern competition and the Massachusetts cotton textile industry

British immigration to the United States, 1840-1905.