Table of Contents ALSO BY JEFFERSON COWIE Title Page Dedication Epigraph Introduction BOOK ONE - Hope in the Confusion, 1968-1974 Chapter 1 - Old Fashioned Heroes of the New Working Class Clarksville, Pennsylvania. New Year’s Eve, 1969 Chelsea Hotel. Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1935 Consolidated Coal. Farmington, West Virginia, 1968 Steel Workers Local 65. South Chicago, 1973 Chevy Vega Plant. Lordstown, Ohio, 1972 Table Grape Industry. Delano, California, 1970 Farah Garment Factory. El Paso, Texas, 1972 Gathering of Black Trade Unionists. Chicago, Illinois, 1972 Office Buildings. Boston, Massachusetts, 1973 New Left Caucuses. Workplaces and Campuses, 1973 Chapter 2 - What Kind of Delegation Is This? I II III IV V VI VII Chapter 3 - Nixon’s Class Struggle I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI Chapter 4 - I’m Dying Here I II III IV V VI BOOK TWO - Despair in the Order, 1974-1982 Chapter 5 - A Collective Sadness I II III IV V VI VII VIII Chapter 6 - The New Deal that Never Happened I II III IV V VI VII VIII Chapter 7 - The Important Sound of Things Falling Apart I II III IV V VI VII VIII Chapter 8 - Dead Man’s Town Acknowledgements Notes Index Copyright Page ALSO BY JEFFERSON COWIE Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (edited with Joseph Heathcott) The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Dealf rom FDR to Obama (with Nick Salvatore, forthcoming) for Aliya and Aidan —living proof Pike County, Kentucky, 1979 And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live —for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken.