Labor's mind: a history of working-class intellectual life

Introduction

"A little avenue to self-mastery": the social world of working-class readers

"All sorts of wild, impassioned talk": open forums and the working-class public sphere

"To see and hear things that have always been there": labor's pedagogy of the organized

Brain workers in the house of labor: life stories and the politics of experience

Icons of ignorance and enlightenment: the visual culture of critical consciousness

Conclusion: self-education in the shadow of the Cold War.