Working classics : poems on industrial life / edited by Peter Oresick & Nicholas Coles.

Night shift at the plating division of Keeler Brass / James B. Allen
Jonas. Womanhood / Catherine Anderson
Among elms and maples, Moragantown, West Virginia, August, 1935. Mining camp residents, West Virginia, July, 1935. Gray / Maggie Anderson
Excerpts from Factory / Antler
Late news / Richard Blessing
Condition of the working classes, 1960. Condition of the working classes, 1970 / Robert Bly
Factory work / Deborah Boe
Two pictures of my grandparents, 1914 / Joseph Bruchac
Old Man Pike. Bobbie. Roy McInnes / David Budbill
Cannery town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Visiting my father in Florida / David Citino
Golden gloves, Beckley, West Virginia / Mary Joan Coleman
Martha / Brenda Connor-Bey
Galena, Kansas / Victor Contoski
4th of July in the factory. Factory love. Factory jungle. After work. Digger goes on vacation. Hard times in the Motor City. Still lives in Detroit : #2, parking lot, Ford Sterling plant / Jim Daniels
Self-portrait with politics / Kate Daniels
Father finds a job in America / James den Boer
Steel poem, 1912. My father's story, 1932. The mill in winter, 1939. Field trip to the rolling mill, 1950. Uncle Rudy explains the events of 1955. Uncles' advice, 1957. Consumers, 1965. Lessons. The rope / Patricia Dobler
Hard work / Stephen Dunn
Numbers / Harley Elliott
The triangle fire. In coal. Picket line in autumn. Not working. Out-of-luck, Massachusetts / Mary Fell
The women who clean fish / Erica Funkhouser
Black money. 3 a.m. kitchen : my father talking / Tess Gallagher
A photo of miners / Brendan Galvin
Ice cream factory / Gary Gildner
An unemployed machinist / John Giorno
He was when he died / Alice Wirth Gray
The foundations of American industry / Donald Hall
Machninist. Excerpts from The one song / C.G. Hanzlicek
Printing press no. 17. One day the sand-machine. The day after I quit / Gwen Hauser
The sweatshop poem. Factories / Edward Hirsch
Driving through coal country in Pennsylvania / Jonathan Holden
The milltown union bar. Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo
Get the gassworks. The gentle weightlifter. The boss. The paper cutter / David Ignatow
Paul Haber. Randall Holmes. Bill Hastings. Chester Gleason. Time and a half. The aesthetics of line work / Todd Jailer
Excerpts from From America : a poem in process / June Jordan
I had no more to say. Between us. Fog. Nothing and no one and nowhere to go. In the tenth year of war. Is it you? / Lawrence Joseph
Father answers his adversaries. K Mart. There are 23 steel mills in Buffalo, N.Y. Cuba / Lawrence Kearney
Contract miners. Kelley Shaft ceremony. Contributor's note / Edward F. Lahey
Working : the egg keeper / Miriam Levine
The everlasting Sunday. Fist. Coming home, Detroit, 1968. Detroit grease shop poem. They feed they lion. You can have it. Sweet will / Philip Levine
March 25, 1911. Triangle site. Sear / Chris Llewellyn
Heavy machinery / Robert Louthan
Foundryblack / Charles Casey Martin
Love in the coal mine / Suzanne Matson
One summer / Robert Mezey
Seeing them on television / Lisel Mueller
Women whose lives are food, men whose lives are money. Ford / Joyce Carol Oates
The abandoned Almire Mine. The miners at Revloc. Retired miners. The world we dreamed of / Ed Ochester
Reaganomics comes to Pittsburgh / Michael O'Connor
My father. The story of glass. Landscape with unemployed, 1934. The annual PPG pensioners' picnic. After the deindustrialization of America, my father enters television repair. Toward the heaven of full employment. Now / Peter Oresick
A job on the night shift / Greg Pape
Playing in the mines. Working the face. The miner's wake. Coal train. Anthracite country / Jay Parini
The orange bears / Kenneth Patchen
Excerpts from On the line in Oakland, California / Donald A. Petesch
Jurgis Petraskas, the workers' angel, organizes the first miners' strike in Exeter, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania family. Photograph. Liberty Avenue. My father is. The visit / Anthony Petrosky
The boys. Belle's body / Kevin Rippin
Strangers. Torque / David Rivard
Coal miners. At the train tracks / Len Roberts
Aunt Dolly / Carolyn M. Rodgers
Alone with the shoe manufacturer in his memorial park / Liz Rosenberg
The furniture factory / Vern Rutsala
The ditch / Michael Ryan

Motown. Enough! / James Scully
Mission Tire Factory, 1969 / Gary Soto
The miners of Delta / Susan Stewart
The miracle-factory / Constance Urdang
A valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana. Their bodies / David Wagoner
In the dress factory / Ronald Wallace
Unemployment. Wayman to the workforce : actively seeking employment. Factory time. Tool fondle. Bosses. The country of everyday : literary criticism. Industrial music / Tom Wayman
Machines / Robert Winner
Endako shutdown, 1982. Metal. Song, Endako. Fairview floats / Andrew Wreggitt
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Youth. Honey. Beautiful Ohio / James Wright
Miners shaking hands with a union man. Diary of the strike. From Lumaghi Mine. Oh yeah, the mine talks / Robert Wrigley.