Introduction
Politicizing consumption in the community: middle class consumer organizing during the Progressive era and World War I
Becoming producers and avoiding the middleman: home garden and municipal market campaigns
The "flying squadron" declares war on the profiteers: the high cost of living division and federally sponsored middle-class consumer organizing
A nation in overalls: middle-class clothing boycotts
Rent war! Middle-class tenant organizing
Epilogue: toward a middle class union.