Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure : Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Mud in Our French Heels 1(16) Cheap Dresses and Dime Novels: The First Commodities for Working Women 17(31) Ladies of Labor: Fashion, Fiction, and Working Women's Culture 48(36) Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the ``Rational Girl Striker'' 84(35) Ladies and Orphans: Women Invent Themselves as Strikers in 1909 119(42) Movie-Struck Girls: Motion Pictures and Consumer Subjectivities 161(40) Conclusion: A Place to Dream 201(8) Notes 209(44) Index 253