Winter 1972

Part I: Life, Work, Neighborhoods
A Steelworker Speaks
No Pride In This Dust
Young Women Who Work
Steel: Changing Workplace
A Steelworkers’ Local in New England
The Tradition of Reutherism
Torn Apart and Driven Together
Workers, White & Black, in Mississippi
The White Worker in the South
The Case of the ILGWU
Silent in the Supermarket
The Sad Legacy of John L. Lewis
Organizing Neighborhoods
Part II: Three Cities
Blue Collars in Cicero
Breakdown in Newark
Black City, Black Unions?
Part III: Reflections
Old Working Class, New Working Class
Labor in the Post-Industrial Society
White Worker/ Blue Mood
From Steam Whistles to Coffee Breaks
Apathy and Other Axioms
Liberal Intelligentsia and White Backlash
Women Who Work in Factories
The Tensions of Work
Last Chance for Desegregation
The White Collar on the Ex-Blue Collar Is a Cool Collar
Sweet and Sour Notes
Part IV: Class and Ethnicity
New Ethnicity & Blue Collars
How Important Is Social Class?
The Life of White Ethnics
Black Workers & the Unions