Contents

Foreword

Introduction to the 2021 Verso Edition: Forty Years Later

Introduction to the 2001 Edition: Twenty Years Later

Preface

Part I: The United Front of Women

Part II: “Chicago Will Be Ours!”

1. “There Must Be Something Wrong”

2. “Shouting Amazons”

3. Mary Kenney and the Ladies’ Federal Labor Union

4. The Illinois Woman’s Alliance

Part III: Fragmentation

5. Leonora O’Reilly and the Women’s Trade Union League

6. Rebel Girls and the IWW

7. Socialists and Suffragists

Part IV: Two Strikes

8. The Uprising of the Thirty Thousand

9. Lawrence, 1912

Part V: Practical Conclusions

Notes

Index