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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Battle for Homestead | |
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| Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded Age | |
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| 6 July 1892: "A Carnival of Revenge" | |
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| Captains of Steel, Captains of Culture | |
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| The "Mechanical Habit of Mind" | |
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| Problems in Iron Production in the Mid 1800s | |
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| The Bessemer Process | |
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| Captains of Steel | |
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| Abram S. Hewitt and the Promise of the Open Hearth | |
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| Alexander Holley, Bessemer Engineering, and the Origins of Scientific Management | |
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| Labor Reform in Pittsburgh, 1867-1881: From "Amalgamation" to the Brink of Collapse | |
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| Indicting and Embracing the Civilization of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics | |
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| Custom Confronts Capital: The Lockout of 1874-1875 | |
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| Toward a Wider Amalgamation: The Knights of Labor | |
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| Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive | |
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| Miners Amalgamate in "Late Afternoon" | |
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| "Tried and Found Faithful": Homestead Defies the Assault | |
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| Assaults on Labor | |
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| The Homestead Glassworks and the Knights of Labor | |
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| The Decision to Build a Steel Mill | |
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| William Clark and the First Homestead Steelworkers | |
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| The Homestead Strike of 1882 | |
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| "Defense, Not Defiance": Defeat in the City and the State | |
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| Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s | |
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| A Tale of Two Cities: Pittsburgh and Homestead | |
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| Republican Recruits: East Europeans in Homestead | |
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| Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron and Philanthropist | |
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| The Homestead Lockout of 1889: The Making of a "Workers' Republic" | |
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| The Life and Times of "Beeswax" Taylor: Exemplary Paradoxes of American Labor | |
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| 1892 and Beyond: Legacies of Homestead | |
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| Captains of Business, Captains of Politics | |
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| 1892: The Stakes for Labor | |
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| Silenced Minorities | |
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| Winners and Losers | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |