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| Contents by Genre | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on Organization | |
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| Bread, Land, and Station: Work and Class | |
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| The Golf Links | |
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| The Factory Girl | |
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| The Farmer Is the Man | |
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| Speech of January, 1840 | |
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| from Bond and Free | |
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| The Tartarus of Maids | |
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| Casey Jones | |
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| from Boxcar Bertha, An Autobiography | |
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| Work Gangs | |
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| Filling Station | |
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| from Christ in Concrete | |
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| Sixteen Tons | |
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| Factory Work | |
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| Sand | |
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| The Apostate | |
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| Hard Travelin' | |
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| The Happiest Man on Earth | |
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| from Yonnondio | |
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| On the Line | |
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| Field Trip to the Rolling Mill, 1950 | |
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| For Maude Callen: Nurse Midwife, Pineville, NC, 1951 | |
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| Playing in the Mines | |
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| Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat | |
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| 9 to 5 | |
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| Ella, in a Square Apron, along Highway 80 | |
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| Counting Tips | |
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| from Inside the New York Telephone Company | |
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| Womanwork | |
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| Hanging In, Solo | |
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| The Circuit | |
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| So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans | |
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| Field Poem | |
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| His Own Society | |
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| Latero Story | |
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| The First Transplant | |
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| McDonald's--We Do It All for You | |
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| "Proud to Work for the University" | |
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| Edison, New Jersey | |
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| Clothes Make the Woman: The Social Dimensions of Class | |
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| from Landscape for a Good Woman | |
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| from Daughter of Earth | |
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| from A New Home--Who'll Follow? | |
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| Actress | |
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| Up the Coule | |
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| The Housekeeper's Lament | |
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| A Mistaken Charity | |
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| The Best China Saucer | |
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| South of the Slot | |
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| Bread and Roses | |
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| Soap and Water | |
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| The Ax-Helve | |
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| from Weeds | |
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| Bobbie | |
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| from The House of Mirth | |
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| To Elsie | |
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| Dirge | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing | |
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| from Barrio Boy | |
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| from The Group | |
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| The Children | |
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| As Children Together | |
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| 3 A.M. Kitchen: My Father Talking | |
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| Visiting My Father in Florida | |
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| Digger Goes on Vacation | |
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| The Lesson | |
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| Yale: Reflections on Class in New Haven | |
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| Kiswana Browne | |
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| Money and Luck | |
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| Mama | |
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| Mom Luby and the Social Worker | |
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| from Betsey Brown | |
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| Off from Swing Shift | |
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| Galveston Bay | |
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| You Can Have It | |
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| Maybe | |
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| Our Life Is More Than Our Work | |
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| My Hometown | |
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| Consumers, 1965 | |
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| K Mart | |
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| Mercedes-Benz | |
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| Growing Up Upper Class | |
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| The Rich: How They're Different ... Than They Used to Be | |
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| Who Me, Rich? | |
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| Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics of Class in the U.S. | |
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| What Working Class Is About | |
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| "Between the Workers and the Owners": Class Conflict | |
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| Life in the Iron-Mills | |
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| from The Gospel of Wealth | |
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| How I Became a Socialist | |
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| The Man with the Hoe | |
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| The Preacher and the Slave | |
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| Solidarity Forever | |
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| from The Autobiography of Mother Jones | |
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| Welfare Song | |
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| The Triangle Fire | |
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| War in Paterson | |
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| from Jews Without Money | |
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| I Want You Women Up North to Know | |
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| Barn Burning | |
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| from Southern Bitch | |
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| Which Side Are You On? | |
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| The Orange Bears | |
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| Picket Line in Autumn | |
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| In the Laundry Room | |
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| from Night Shift in a Pickle Factory | |
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| Pickle Belt | |
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| He Was When He Died | |
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| I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm | |
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| Subway Conversations | |
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| The Boss | |
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| More Than a Paycheck | |
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| Subject to Change | |
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| The World We Dreamed Of | |
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| Allentown | |
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| The Blue-Collar Millionaire | |
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| Inland and the Titanic: A Comparison | |
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| Classic or Classy: Art and Class | |
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| from Culture and Anarchy | |
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| from Culture and Society: 1780-1950 | |
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| Publication--is the Auction | |
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| A Wagner Matinee | |
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| The Password to Thought--to Culture | |
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| Johannesburg Mines | |
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| The Weary Blues | |
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| Ma Rainey | |
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| The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | |
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| I Was Marching | |
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| from Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art | |
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| Sing Me a Song with Social Significance | |
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| The Americano from Luzon | |
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| Art for Heart's Sake | |
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| Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935 | |
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| Why I Am Not a Painter | |
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| Self-Portrait with Politics | |
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| The Aesthetics of Line Work | |
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| Heavy Machinery | |
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| The Country of Everyday: Literary Criticism | |
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| Miss Clairol | |
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| The Cultural Worker | |
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| Cowboy Poem | |
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| May's Poem | |
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| Why I Am a Poet | |
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| Writing About Literature and Culture | |
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| Credits | |
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| For Further Study | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |