Introduction: "Shall we turn out?" : Harriet Hanson and the spinning-room strikers

"A devil in petticoats" : young mill workers rebel, Lowell, Massachusetts (1836)

"Stick together and we'll win" : messenger, bootblack, and newsie strike fever, New York City (1899)

"Dear God, will it ever be different?" : Pauline Newman and the New York City rent strike (1907)

"I'll be a Johnny Mitchell man" : the anthracite coal strikes, Pennsylvania (1897, 1900, and 1902)

"We ask you, Mr. President" : Mother Jones and her industrial army, Philadelphia (1903)

"Build up your union" : Agnes Nestor and the garment workers' strike, Chicago (1897), New York City, and Philadelphia (1909-1910)

"They understood the stomach language" : the Lawrence strike (1912)

"Now I have a past" : the National Child Labor Committee (1904)

A timeline of federal child labor laws.