附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
Workers, mills, and unions before 1945 -- Cracking the textile industry: Operation Dixie, 1946-1953 -- "What do we need a union for? we've never had it so good": the problem of rising wages in Operation Dixie -- "Winning elections isn't enough": postwar strikes -- Moving Southern wages: the 1951 general strike -- Losing on the relief line: the 1951 strike in Danville, Virginia -- The death of the union: the fallout from the 1951 general strike -- Breaking the chains of slavery: unionization and social change in Rockingham, North Carolina.