The garment industry: A struggle for fair wages
Resource extraction: Buying and selling the Earth
Electronics: Novel technologies, familiar problems
Foreword: Stories that demand change / Kalpona Akter
Introduction: Meeting in the marketplace / Corinne Goria
Executive editor's note / mimi lok
Map of narrator locations in this book
The garment industry: A struggle for fair wages
Bangladesh, Former garment worker, labor organizer / Kalpona Akter
Mexico, Garment worker / Ana Juárez
Mexico, Labor organizer / Martín Barrios
Agriculture: The Original global economy
India, Former cotton farmer, day laborer, cook / Pournima Akolkar
Uzbekistan, Seamstress / Nasiba Opa
Guatemala, Farmer / Francisca Cocón
United States, Vineyard worker, Amway salesman / Fausto Guzmán
United States, High school student, tobacco field worker / Neftali Cuello
Resource extraction: Buying and selling the Earth
Zambia, Salesman, former miner / Albert Mwanaumo
Papua New Guinea, Musician, filmmaker / Clive Porabou
United States, Borax miner / Terri Judd
Nigeria, Salesman, nurse / Bere Suanu Kingston
India, Tutor, community advocate / Sanjay Verma
Electronics: Novel technologies, familiar problems
China, Former factory worker / Li Wen
China, Factory worker / Sung Huang
South Korea, Former factory worker / Hye-kyeong Han
I. Timeline of industrial modernization
IV. Wages in decline / The Center for American Progress and the Workers Rights Consortium.
