Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Introduction
6. PART I
   CLASS WARFARE IN AMERICA: THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
   1. 1.  Progress
   2. 2.  Progress, Poverty, and Primitive Accumulation
   3. 3.  Premonitions
   4. 4.  The Second Civil War: In the Countryside
   5. 5.  The Second Civil War: On the Industrial Frontier
   6. 6.  Myth and History
   7. 7.  The End of Socialism
7. PART II
   DESIRE AND FEAR IN THE SECOND GILDED AGE
   1. 8.  Back to the Future: The Political Economy of Auto-cannibalism
   2. 9.  Fables of Acquiescence: The Businessman as Populist Hero
   3. 10.  Fables of Freedom: Brand X
   4. 11.  Wages of Freedom: The Fable of the Free Agent
   5. 12.  Journey to Nowhere: The Eclipse of the Labor Movement
   6. 13.  Improbable Rebels: The Folklore of Limousine Liberalism
   7. 14.  Conclusion: Exit by the Rear Doors
8. Acknowledgments
9. About the Author
10. Also by Steve Fraser
11. Notes
12. Newsletters
13. Copyright