Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Weavers of Dreams, Unite!
1. The Great Text in Our Economy Today: The American Theater in an Age of Organization
2. The Sock and Buskin or the Artisan's Biretta: Reconciling Art and Labor in the Actors' Equity Ass
3. All the World's a Stage!: The Actors' Strike of 1919
4. Protecting the High-Minded Actor and the High-Minded Manager in Equal Part: Occupational Unionism
5. For the Dignity and Honor of the Theatrical Profession: Respectability and Unrespectability in th
6. Ain't No Peace in the Family Now: The Actors' Equity Association and the Movies, 1919-1929
Epilogue
Notes
Index